Thokar (1939)

Directed by

Abdur Rashid Kardar

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 41m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A blind villager wins a lottery and comes to see that money does not bring happiness. The story follows his journey from hope to a hard reality.

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What happens

Thokar also called The Kick is a 1939 Indian Hindi-Urdu film directed by A. R. Kardar. Produced by Chandulal Shah for his production banner Ranjit Movietone, it has music by Gyan Dutt. The story writer was M. Sadiq, with cinematography by Gordhanbhi Patel. The cast included Kumar, Ishwarlal, Madhuri, Yakub, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Ram Marathe, Waheedan Bai and Dixit. The story involves a blind villager winning a lottery but he eventually realises that money can not bring happiness. Thokar is cited as one of the "most interesting" films made by Kardar for Ranjit Movietone. The other was Pagal (1940). Baburao Patel, editor of the film magazine Filmindia, called it one of the "good social pictures" and "the best" from Chandulal Shah. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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