Our Struggle

A stridently nationalistic story of Indias freedom struggle presented through the experiences of a Bengali family from 1885 when the Indian National Congress was established to 1947 Important events incorporated into the plot were Gandhis satyagraha 1920 the Simon Commission 1928 Vallabhbhai Patels Bardoli satyagraha 1928 and the 1942 Quit India agitations Krishan Chanders script Sachin Shankars choreography and the acting styles owed much to the IPTA theatre of the 40s The film made at Bombay Talkies was produced by the distributors of the Chicago Radio PA systems label Kishore Kumar plays the militant hero of this quasidocumentary Motwane included old documentary footage purchased from Kohinoor and Krishna Film as well as a shot of Rabindranath Tagore singing his Jana Gana Mana composition one of Indias national anthems Arunkumar Roys Of Tagore and Cinema 1994 traces this footage to Ufa shot when Tagore visited Munich