Monday, June 25, 2012

A moving scene from Yogi Vemana (1947)


Vemana finds an old woman shivering from cold at the steps of a temple takes her in to the temple and covers her with the shawl of the resident goddess. The scene starts approximately at 2: 40. More about Vemana athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemana and a recent write up about the film http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article3562373.ece
(via J.K. Mohana Rao). The year 1947 was also the year of India's independence and the famous Nehru speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryst_with_destiny

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