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Film "Do Beegha Zameen" |:- Catharsis of farmers & workers of India.

Two Beegha Zameen --Land of one-third of an acre.

The film "Do Beegha Zameen" is catharsis of pathos of Indian farmers who have been thrown into metro and cosmopolitan cities as migrant labourers in cruel ways that keep disturbing and churning pain of heart of human beings.It's a regressing state of human civilization that eludes most of human beings and reduces them into subjugated persons to serve the system steered by feudo-capitalists as slaves in glistening democracy that also flashes our eyes to blink in pathetic astonishment.

Balraj Sahini transforms himself into a marginalized farmer Shambhu Mahto of one third land of one acre in his village. The landlord confiscates his land by auctioning by implicating him into false excess loan in his absence because he, his son and wife do not accumulate compounded money of landlord.

Shambhu comes back to village with wife and son but he suffers from distress and distraught to see a factory emerged on his land and house that kept his family happily together.His face gets gripped with sea amount of grief. He leans to pick up a handful soil from his land but security guard prevents him from picking up.

The most famous and respected film director Bimal Roy has depicted India's cruel feudal system that tries to relate themselves to the industrialization through evil tools of confiscation of land of marginalized farmers. Bimal Roy's film is an epic of pathos of farmers and working class that are reduced into hell like life. Such a huge migration of poor farmers into cosmopolitan cities have sent to oblivion.

Chimney and fence on land of Shambhu Mahto are various symbols used by director Bimal Da to allegorize emerging cruel capitalism with the help of feudalism.

In 1955,Film was made but this is still pertinent.

Hats off to Bimal Roy,Balraj Sahini, Nazeer Husain,Nirupa Roy, Meena Kumari..

Note: In stead of "Land Acquisition Bill", Land ceiling Bill" and Land distribution Bill" are needed. Confiscation of confiscated Government land by Land Mafia must be used to develop India.