Badhte bhi chalo kat ke
Bazu bhi bahot hain sar bhi bahot
Chalte he chalo ke ab dere
Manzil he pe dale jayenge
Aagaman was a sequel to Gaman...the return to the roots... a battle against
the socio economic exploitation of the farmer which made him helpless.
The turn of the century had witnessed the mushrooming of a large number
of sugar cane mills in Uttar Pradesh as part of the expansion of capitalist
imperialism. These mills produced the much-needed sugar required for the
burgeoning European society. The Colonial masters giving a fillip to their
own industrial growth exported machinery to India. Land and labour was cheap
in India and pollution of the environment was of no grave concern. The Indian
mill owners unleashed unprecedented exploitation and terror on the Indian
farmer. A young revolutionary farmer raises his voice of dissent and is
silenced forever. His son takes up the battle and spearheads a movement
for setting up cooperative sugar mills in his region. The mill owner tries
to thwart this movement by standing for Parliament in the first general
elections in 1952. The contradiction still exists and the fight goes on(Img
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The film got its poignancy from the revolutionary poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz
and the musical score by Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.
The film stars Suresh Oberoi, Deepa, Saeed Jaffery and introduces new talent
including Anupam Kher, Sudhir Pandey and others.
The film was shot entirely on location in Kotwara and the districts of Lakhimpur
Kheri and Sitapur.(Img15)
Aagaman