President 1937

President is a 1937 Indian Bollywood social film released on Jan 01, 1937. The film is directed by Nitin Bose.
A famous Saigal musical narrating a strange love story set against 1930s industrialisation and worker-management relations. The 16-year old Prabhavati (Kamlesh Kumari) inherits a mill and turns it into an extremely profitable enterprise. Prakash (Saigal) is a worker who designs a more efficient machine for the factory for which he first gets sacked and then is re-employed. He falls in love with Prabhavatis sister Sheila (Desai), who later makes way for Prabhavati who is also in love with Prakash. Her withdrawal distresses Prakash, causing him to bully the workers who then go on strike. Prabhavati realises the problem and presumably commits suicide (she disappears into an office and locks the door) for the good of her sister and of the business. The unmistakable thrust of the story is that the `personal (i.e.relations with women) should not be allowed to interfere in male pursuits like business or management, equated with social good. The film has Saigals classic number Ek bangla bane nyara. The plot echoes the Guru Dutt script for the unfinished Baharain Phir Bhi Ayengi. [Source: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema] Check out this page for more updates on President.