Jagriti 1954

Jagriti is a 1954 Indian Bollywood social film released on 1954. The film is directed by Satyen Bose, produced by S. Mukherjee under banner named Filmistan.

Ajay is an extremely naughty boy who has troubled his entire village. His fathers elder brother and guardian Ramapati (Bipin Gupta) is extremely annoyed and saddened by Ajays defiance of his orders and disciplinary measures . Ajay mother(Mumtaz Begum) too suffers silently due to the everyday tussle between her son and his uncle. To make Ajay grow up to be a better person, Ramapati decides to send him to a hostel in the city. Ajay initially throws a major tantrum about this, but is forced to relent. Ramapati drops a sullen and angry Ajay off at the hostel. After some intial trouble and disputes with the fellow students, Ajay soon settles down in the hostel. Shakti, a physically-challenged student (walks on crutches), becomes his best friend. Shakti's mother (Pronoti Ghose) is a poor woman who supports her son by working as a maid for rich households. All the students in the hostel are tired of their superintendents tyranny and bad behavior. The students eventually manage to scare the superintendent out of the hostel. Shekhar Babu (Abhi Bhattacharya) comes to the hostel as the new superintendent. He not only wins over the students with his friendly ways, but manages to win over the education department due to his innovative ways of teaching that make students learn more effectively. However, Ajay remains a problem case for Shekhar Babu. Ajay not only refuses to study well, he even continues disrupting the discipline of the school in one way or the other. After one such episode where Ajay creates a major problem, Shekar Babu loses his cool and asks the students to boycott Ajay Unable to bear this humiliation, Ajay decides to leave the hostel. Shakti follows him on the road asking him to return, however, Shakti meets with an accident and dies. Finally, Ajay realizes the gravity of his mistakes and is extremely repentant, he decides to mend his ways and be a better human being as well. Shekhar Babu is also appreciated for his efforts and is promoted to a higher position in a different place. He leaves the heartbroken students with a message to continue to strive for better achievements in life and to make the country proud of them.

Ajay is an extremely naughty boy who has troubled his entire village. His fathers elder brother and guardian Ramapati (Bipin Gupta) is extremely annoyed and saddened by Ajays defiance of his orders and disciplinary measures . Ajay mother(Mumtaz Begum) too suffers silently due to the everyday tussle between her son and his uncle. To make Ajay grow up to be a better person, Ramapati decides to send him to a hostel in the city. Ajay initially throws a major tantrum about this, but is forced to relent. Ramapati drops a sullen and angry Ajay off at the hostel. After some intial trouble and disputes with the fellow students, Ajay soon settles down in the hostel. Shakti, a physically-challenged student (walks on crutches), becomes his best friend. Shakti's mother (Pronoti Ghose) is a poor woman who supports her son by working as a maid for rich households. All the students in the hostel are tired of their superintendents tyranny and bad behavior. The students eventually manage to scare the superintendent out of the hostel. Shekhar Babu (Abhi Bhattacharya) comes to the hostel as the new superintendent. He not only wins over the students with his friendly ways, but manages to win over the education department due to his innovative ways of teaching that make students learn more effectively. However, Ajay remains a problem case for Shekhar Babu. Ajay not only refuses to study well, he even continues disrupting the discipline of the school in one way or the other. After one such episode where Ajay creates a major problem, Shekar Babu loses his cool and asks the students to boycott Ajay Unable to bear this humiliation, Ajay decides to leave the hostel. Shakti follows him on the road asking him to return, however, Shakti meets with an accident and dies. Finally, Ajay realizes the gravity of his mistakes and is extremely repentant, he decides to mend his ways and be a better human being as well. Shekhar Babu is also appreciated for his efforts and is promoted to a higher position in a different place. He leaves the heartbroken students with a message to continue to strive for better achievements in life and to make the country proud of them.

Ajay Mukerjee is the keader of the boys of his village because of his smartness and courage. His mischievous pranks, however, makes him the terror of his neighbours who complain about him to his guardian (Bipin Gupta). The guardian has a sneaking admiration and affection for the boy but bows down to his friends demands to punish the boy. But even severe punishment does not curb the boys enthusiasm and at last his guardian is compelled to send him away to a boarding school in the hope that the school discipline will mould him into a studious and quiet boy. . Smartness, however, mest invariably come out and, even in the school, Ajay becomes the leader in no time. His intelligence and courage result in the boys of the school making him their leader. . On the very first day in the school, one of the bullys, Ganesh, playa a scurvy trick on Ajay with the result that he is beaten by the class teacher severely for no fault of his. In spite of his punishment, Ajay refuses to bend and this school mates. . Shakti, a lame boy, whose mother is a widow working as a maid servant, is the brightest boy in the school and remains on the top of his class He is unable to participate in the school games because of his crippled condition and his only activity is to sit on a swing and watch his colleagues play. Ajay notices Shaktis lameness and the two very soon become fast friends. . The superintendent of the school hostek, Nanda Babu, is not only an inefficient person but also a bully who wants the best of everything for himself and the worst of everything for the students under his care. He does not look after the boys properly-even the food being of a very miserable character. One day goaded by the hostel students, Ajay and a friend go to Nanda Babu and lodge a complaint against the cook for serving bad food. But Nanda Babu ignores the complaint; not only this, he repremands Ajay. Ajay then decides to take the matter into his own hands; secretely he puts lots of salt into all the dishes prepard by the cook specially for Nanda Baby. Obciously this spoils the superintendents dinner and the cook gets his share of bad tratment. All the boys are very happy at Ajays success and they enter into a conspiracy to drive away the selfish Nanda Baby from the hostel. . At dead of night, when the superintendent is fast asleep, Ajay and his friends masquerade as terrifying ghosts, enter the superintendents room and very nearly scare the life out of him. This is followed by yet another prank-the boys bring in two donkeys and let them into the superintendents room at night. By now Nanda Baby is very nearly gone crazy; he decides to resign and leave the school. . The new superintendent, Shekhar (Abhi Bhattacharya) ia a man trained in modern methods of educating students. Being a stranger, hoewever, he receives the same treatment as Nanda Babu from Ajay and his friends But he sees through the boy game; is not angry, however, and tries to guide the smartness behind these pranks into useful channels. All the boys take to him and very soon there is a very happy atmosphere in the him and very soon there is very happay atmosphere in the hostel with Shekhar as a friend, philosopher and guide of the students. . In school studies as well, Shekhar introduces new trends and methods. His colleagues who belong to the old school of thought, do not like the persuasive methods of Shekhar. They continue with their theory: "the more you beat them, the better they be". The old fogies anonymously complain to the inspector of schools about the new teacher and the inspector goes on a surprise visit to check on this. Instead of beingconvinced about the complaints against the new teacher, he is very much impressed by his methods and encourages him to carry on with his new woek. So Shekhar continues with his new system-he tries to create aninterest in the boys for their country, gives them latitude, mixes freely with them, intriduces games, picnics and excursions. During one of the excursions, the boys are taken to places of historic interest like Jallianwalla Baug. Thus, the boys begin to take an interest and even pride in their country. The school celebrates national festival like Gandhi Jayanti and there is a lot of free mixin between Shekhar and the students. . Ajay, even though tamed to a great extent by now, still has a lot a mischief left in him. And, he is the arch plotter behind the complete spoiling of his school drama arranged by Shekhar in which all the boys are taking active part. Ajay puts utchinf powder in the costumes of the actors, spreads the same on all the seats arranged for distinguished visitors and sets offcrackers bebeath the stage when the performance is reaching its climax. The principal of the school is furious at the disgrace that follows and decides to banish Ajay from the school. But Shekhar intervenes with a request that the boy should be given another chance. . Ajay again commits another serious error in a football game. When he is fouled by a boy of the opposite team, he lashes out and seriously injures the opponent. For once, even the patient Shekhar loses his temper and suspends Ajay for one week and follws it up by demanding from the school boys a comlete boycott of Ajay. Feeling very much humiliated ar the boycott, Ajay packs up his bags and decides to go away. The last person to whom he bids farewell is his most intimate friend, Shakti. The latter tries ti persuade him not to leave but Ajay unheeding, goes away. . On his crutches, Shakti follows, calling Ajay. Because of his lameness he is able to make only slow progress and at a junction of the road, he is caught the former, he is thrown into the centre of the car and i mmediately run over. . Ajay hears the crash and runs back but only to find Shakti very seriously injured and unconscious. In the hospital to which he is immediately taken, Shakti regains his consciousness just for a few minutes-just enough time to get a promise from Ajay to go back to school, reform himself and try to become the first, boot in his studies as well as in sports. Shakti then dies and Ajay feels that his loving friends passing away is entirely due to him. He goes back to school, miserable, unhappy and repentent. When all his colleagues are fast asleep, he studies by candle-light and is determined to keep his promise to his dead friend. . Shekhar notices the change in the boy; surprises him at his night studies and guides him in all his difficulties. When the schoool annual comes, it is notices that Ajay has walkes away with all the peizes. . Having kept his primise, Ajay is still unhappy because shakti is no more. He takes all his prixes to the room where he has kept an enlarged photograph of Shakti and, wirh tears running down his cheeks, he tries to rell his dead friend that late and the two find consolation, comfort and happiness in each others company. Check out this page for more updates on Jagriti.