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An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night. In hopes of improving his lifestyle, a…
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An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night. In hopes of improving his lifestyle, a poor peasant re-locates to Kolkata virtually penniless. It is late at night and he is thirsty, and he is unable to find water anywhere. A singing drunk offers him money to buy some alcohol, but the money is snatched away by a taxi-driver. In desperation, the peasant attempts to drink from a fire hydrant, but is stopped by a Police Constable. Then he sneaks into a multi-storied apartment complex, and is mistaken for a thief. The entire building, which consists of over 200 units, housing nearly a 1000 people, set out to hunt him down. He first stumbles into the house of Kailash - who makes illicit alcohol, while his daughter is secretly romancing another tenant, Pradeep; the peasant then runs into another apartment - just in time to see the husband attempting to steal his wife, Meenu's valuables, so that he can get enough money to gamble on a race-horse; he hides in a drum and makes his way around the huge building and ends up as a corpse at the apartment of Ramnarayan Malik, who prints counterfeit rupee notes. Watch what happens when he earns the wrath of Ramnarayan and his men, ends up on a drain pipe several stories high - with scores of residents hurling stones at him - and Ramnarayan's men waiting on the terrace with weapons to kill him. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) When a poor migrant peasant arrives in the city of Calcutta late at night, he is terribly thirsty but cannot find any drinking water. The search for water takes him on a nightmarish journey through the underbelly of a middle-class residential complex where he witnesses all kinds of hypocrisy and where he finds himself trapped as a dangerous criminal, hunted down by hundreds of self-proclaimed exterminators of evil. —inchakra.cinema@gmail.com "Jagte Raho" is a poignant tale set in the bustling cityscape, where a simple villager's quest for water turns into a night-long ordeal. The protagonist, played by Raj Kapoor, arrives in the city hoping for a better life but finds himself embroiled in a series of misadventures. Mistaken for a thief upon entering an apartment complex in search of water, he is pursued by the residents. As he scurries from one flat to another, he uncovers the clandestine activities of the seemingly respectable citizens. Their duplicity and the societal corruption he witnesses leave him disillusioned. Throughout the night, he evades capture, with the chase culminating on the rooftop. In a moment of respite, he encounters a young girl who instills in him a renewed sense of self-belief. With dawn approaching, he steps out to find that the once-hostile crowd pays him no heed. —SunMaximusOne Entering an apartment block in search of a drink of water, a naive peasant finds himself mistaken for a thief and is chased by the residents. Whilst evading capture, he inadvertently exposes the venality and dishonesty of the building's middle class occupants. —van Goethem
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An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night. In hopes of improving his lifestyle, a poor peasant re-locates to Kolkata virtually penniless. It is late at night and he is thirsty, and he is unable to find water anywhere.
A singing drunk offers him money to buy some alcohol, but the money is snatched away by a taxi-driver. In desperation, the peasant attempts to drink from a fire hydrant, but is stopped by a Police Constable. Then he sneaks into a multi-storied apartment complex, and is mistaken for a thief.
The entire building, which consists of over 200 units, housing nearly a 1000 people, set out to hunt him down. He first stumbles into the house of Kailash - who makes illicit alcohol, while his daughter is secretly romancing another tenant, Pradeep; the peasant then runs into another apartment - just in time to see the husband attempting to steal his wife, Meenu's valuables, so that he can get enough money to gamble on a race-horse; he hides in a drum and makes his way around the huge building and ends up as a corpse at the apartment of Ramnarayan Malik, who prints counterfeit rupee notes. Watch what happens when he earns the wrath of Ramnarayan and his men, ends up on a drain pipe several stories high - with scores of residents hurling stones at him - and Ramnarayan's men waiting on the terrace with weapons to kill him.
—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) When a poor migrant peasant arrives in the city of Calcutta late at night, he is terribly thirsty but cannot find any drinking water. The search for water takes him on a nightmarish journey through the underbelly of a middle-class residential complex where he witnesses all kinds of hypocrisy and where he finds himself trapped as a dangerous criminal, hunted down by hundreds of self-proclaimed exterminators of evil. —inchakra.cinema@gmail.com "Jagte Raho" is a poignant tale set in the bustling cityscape, where a simple villager's quest for water turns into a night-long ordeal.
The protagonist, played by Raj Kapoor, arrives in the city hoping for a better life but finds himself embroiled in a series of misadventures. Mistaken for a thief upon entering an apartment complex in search of water, he is pursued by the residents. As he scurries from one flat to another, he uncovers the clandestine activities of the seemingly respectable citizens.
Their duplicity and the societal corruption he witnesses leave him disillusioned. Throughout the night, he evades capture, with the chase culminating on the rooftop. In a moment of respite, he encounters a young girl who instills in him a renewed sense of self-belief.
With dawn approaching, he steps out to find that the once-hostile crowd pays him no heed. —SunMaximusOne Entering an apartment block in search of a drink of water, a naive peasant finds himself mistaken for a thief and is chased by the residents. Whilst evading capture, he inadvertently exposes the venality and dishonesty of the building's middle class occupants.
—van Goethem.