Gopinath 1948

Gopinath is a 1948 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1948. The film is directed by Mahesh Kaul.
Taragic tale of Gopi (Mitra), a village woman virtually abandoned by her brother in the home of Mohan (Kapoor) and his ageing mother. The lower-caste Gopi secretly loves Mohan but he pines for the movie star Neela Devi. Eventually the frustarted Gopi goes mad just when Mohan, fed up with his stars whims, returns to Gopi. The film belongs to the Bengali tradition of literary melodramas, an association enchanced by Tripti Mitras remarkable performance. In shifting the tragedy from a Devdas-type male anxiety to the womans condition, the film chronicles the behavioural and moral restrictions besetting a woman caught in a traditional environment. Mitras performative idiom rises above the storys vindication of tradition as superior to the liberated but hollow freedoms of the film star. [Source: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema] Check out this page for more updates on Gopinath.