A realistic treatment of industrial working-class conditions. Shot on location in a Bombay textile mill, the schematic plot opens with the death of a benevolent mill owner whose good daughter Padma (Bibbo) and drunken playboy son Vinodh (Nayampalli) must now run the business jointly.
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school social dramas that don't mind getting a little dirty, you'll probably dig Mazdoor. It isn't exactly a light watch, and if you hate movies where the 'bad guy' is just a cartoonish drunkard who ruins everything, you might want to skip it. It’s definitely for people who care a...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani
Bruno Ziener
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school social dramas that don't mind getting a little dirty, you'll probably dig Mazdoor. It isn't exactly a light watch, and if you hate movies where the 'bad guy' is just a cartoonish drunkard who ruins everything, you might want to skip it. It’s definitely for people who care about how cinema looked before everything became so polished and fake. You can practically smell the oil and the cotton lint in every frame. The Reality of the Mill They actually s..."
Munshi Premchand, Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani
India
1920 · IMDb —
Bruno Ziener
