Depiction Of Agrarian Crisis In The Movie Do Bigha Zamin
Do Bigha Zamin, one of Bimal Roy's perfect works of art that came about in 1953. Do Bigha Zamin featured Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy in crucial roles. Do Bigha Zamin was the primary / very first film made under the Bimal Roy Productions. The main focus was on the agrarian crisis which was depicted in the movie, Do Bigha is best associated with Shambhu’s superlative, naturalistic exposition — he carried on with the life of a Calcutta rickshaw-wallah to get ready for his job.
The topical substance of the film is caught in the remarkable rickshaw-against-horse-carriage arrangement. Its effect owes much to Hrishikesh Mukherjee's "stun cut" altering systems. The race is symbolic of how the city lessens a dedicated villager to the status of a creature. Jagdeep, a tyke craftsman at that point, is a shoeshine kid who continues murmuring Awara hoon — Roy's statement that film could be a conceivable departure from the drudgery of decreased lives. This movie was ahead of its time, the farmer which can’t fight a landlord how come we expect him / her to fight industrialization.
A full impact of a social comment was portrayed in this movie which was full of struggles, atrocities and preposterous reality of the shift from feudalism to capitalism. Later in the movie, Parvati goes to Calcutta, and is taken by a peculiar man, who claims he knows Shambu and will take her to him. He takes her to his shed and attempts to take and impose himself on her. She escapes from him, however goes under an accident. A swarm assembles around her and they require a rickshaw to take her to the hospital. Shambu, who was cruising by, offers a ride, and is stunned to see his harmed spouse. In the meanwhile, Kanhaiya, unfit to withstand his dad's condition, takes cash from a woman and keeps running back to the ghetto. He comes to think about his mom's condition and hurries to the hospital. He cries in the wake of seeing his harmed mother and claims that God has rebuffed them since he began taking cash and stealing. He tears the cash into pieces. The specialists reveal to Shambu that he needs cash to spend on prescription and blood to spare his better half. Poor Shambu must choose the option to save his land or to save his better half. Back in the town the land is sold in light of the fact that Shambu couldn't pay back the obligation and Gangu builds up a psychological issue. The land is presently possessed by Harman Singh and the factory development has started. Shambu and his family come back to the town just to see their property sold and a manufacturing plant being developed on it. He at that point attempts to get a bunch of soil from his territory, yet is halted by a security personnel. The film closes as Shambu and his family leave their territory and fills everyone with sorrow as they become targets of capitalism. The movie makes us realize the shift in working sectors due to external forces which is also faced by shambhu, parvati and kanhayiya, unfortunately the hit of capitalism came upon their family and they had to work rigorously to pay off their debt of 235 rupees to the cunning landlord, the picturization of this movie is so perfectly done as we can come across and actually relate to the unfortunate situation of shambhu’s family.
The agrarian crisis then and now is literally same and it has been reflected in the farmers movements too as they also fight against the emergence of capitalism in their sectors which leads to their exploitation which isn’t fair at all which certainly exploits their fundamental rights. The agrarian crisis even now is the same as the situation of the proletariats was similar which is of the Indian farmer even after the post-independence era. In today’s context the agrarian crisis is full of atrocities and forced claims over the land of the farmers who result in fighting against this system of capturing lands for the mode of production for the capitalism and industrialization, some of the farmers even give up and take heavy actions such as farmers suicide. This is very upsetting that this shift from feudalism to capitalism made many people it’s target. Agrarian systems even then and now depend on feudalistic and capitalistic wants of the society as a system. Consolidation of rural power also emerges, it is not necessary that the structure of a village will be uniform, the presence of entrenched feudal power is very much visible in the movie and as well as in the pan peasant movements which depicts the struggle for survival. Here the transformation or per say the shift towards capitalism brings about sorrow, struggle for survival which is full of tragedy and trauma.
This movie makes us understand the sentimental value of shambhu’s land which he wants to save from the emergence of capitalism which is very much similar in the contemporary context too, Harsh reality of life is that this movie depicts the condition of farmers even today, hence the agrarian crisis. Materialism as a concept also emerges in the agrarian crisis as the wants of some are taking away the needs to innocents, this movie portrayed the downfall of feudalism and emergence of capitalism which was made on the corpse of agricultural land.
