Depiction of Real life misery through the lens of Hindi Film Dastak (1970)
The film begins with the knocking door shot and the next one was the wide panorama shot of the Mumbai slum area that appeared on the screen. The story of newlyweds couple Hamid ( Sanjeev Kumar) and Salma (Rehana Sultana). They move into the rental flat near the red light area and the paan wala Akhtar helped them to arrange this flat. The flat had been the former home of a well-known Mujra and qawali singer Shamshad prostitute. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and every night the bell rang and the same thing happened for a long time. The couple struggles to live with the bounds of their moral conduct. Hamid lives a poor lifestyle in the Bombay slum area. Hamid works as a clerk in Bombay Municipal Corporation and hardly manages all the basic amenities of life. Salma comes from a small village where her widowed father lives with her daughter Zora. The locals specially Akhtar paan shop owner wants Salma to start entertaining as it will increase its paan business. H...