Depiction of Real life misery through the lens of Hindi Film “ Dastak( (1970)”: An Analysis

Abstract

Cinema is considered as the tool of social transformation, changing agent and the reflection of society.  The different eras of Hindi Cinema illustrate the different concern of a common man and their struggle. The various themes represent the image of India with a different approach. Social issues in the earlier eras were the dominant one theme on poverty , unemployment, problem of urban spaces, exploitation of peasants ,corruption, nation and nationalism were the main subject and each storytellers represent those emotions and problems in an ideal way .The present paper analyse the social issues and struggle of a common man and moreover how the director execute the human drama the agony faced by an ordinary people who live in the metropolis and their aspirations of life  with the use of metaphors