In that sense, it was disappointing to see the story rush itself to finish before I could sit back and enjoy the evolution of the drama. It looked more like the synopsis than the story itself. It looked more like what I’d write, wasting a beautiful idea in a hurry to finish the piece. Premchand, the master storyteller, could have created an even more beautiful masterpiece if he had handled it more leisurely.
In my opinion, with the epic historical background of the story, two feudal lords playing the lordly game of chess, and losing their lands and subsequently the empire(which they were part of) and killing each other over the very game in a Macbeth-ian end, he could have made much more out of it. I think the whole problem I have with the story is encapsulated in its short length. It didn’t take long to read the whole thing, about half an hour. So when I sat down to read it, the first and biggest surprise was its size.
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The hype surrounded it has been all the greater for the movie made on it by Satyajit Ray. And years ago, when I read a lot of short stories by Premchand from the Mansarovar series, including ‘Do Bailon ki Kahani’, I missed this story somehow. Shatranj Ke Khiladi is one of the most famous stories by Premchand, or I should say, arguably the most famous story along with ‘Do bailon ki kahani’.
And you won’t doubt it for a single minute after you read it. While Suraj ka Saatvan Ghoda, an experimental work, is favored by critics(not undeservedly so), Gunahon ka Devta is certainly the toast of the masses. Gunahon ka Devta and Suraj ka Saatvan Ghoda are two of Dharmvir Bharti’s most famous and acclaimed words. With this final thunder, the storm of Chander’s mind finally dies, leaving a charred landscape behind, and a life to keep living on. Sudha dies in childbirth, her last hysterical moments a searing pain. The downward spiral towards madness continues till the end when the death finally catches up with one of them, and hits Chander the hardest. The psychological torture that Chander goes through, and makes you go through, compares to Raskolnikov or a Nietzsche. The intensity of the book after that is too much to take.
The story takes on a serious turn at about halfway with Chander’s creating an inevitable, irrevocable turning point in the lives of both of them. It’s almost a perfect love story between the innocent, bubbly, full-of-life Sudha and simple, intellectual, honest, and serious-to-a-fault Chander. The first half of the novel, which goes in more or less a positive vein, is exhilarating and refreshingly lyrical. The subject matter is perennial favorite, the prose magical. The book’s immense popularity, especially among the young generation of that era is entirely deserved. Too late, he realizes the defeat of his lofty spiritual ideal. Chander’s Dostoyevskian journey into the endless recesses of his mind’s darker sides, Sudha’s sacrificing herself on the altar of marriage, everything comes to a feverish climax when Sudha dies in childbirth. From this point onwards the real test of Chander’s spiritual ideal begins as he meets Pammi, the mature and materialistic girl, experiences the power of physical intimacy and it’s ability to distort the ethical and moral fabric, and suffer on account of his unfulfilled love for Sudha. The blind devotion of Sudha submits to Chander’s aggressively spiritual ideal of love, and they are separated. However he is ideal to a fault, adhering to a (pseudo)intellectual conception of love which rejects any physical fulfilment of that love as the negation of its spiritual loftiness. The boy is a simple, hardworking and an honest person, who has intellectual ambitions. It’s the story of a boy and a girl, who grew up together since early childhood, and share a bond of trust, friendship, and pure and innocent love.
And one of the epic one, the shine of whose brilliance isn’t going to go for ages in Hindi Literature to come. And it’s easy to see why it is so popular. Other English adjective-noun pairs are related in this way, too: e.g., hale as in “hale and hearty” and health (but hale, except in that expression, is now mostly replaced by “healthy”).Gunahon ka Devta is the most popular work of Dharmvir Bharti. Obsolete forms include heighth and highth, and it is still common to hear people pronounce it that way.) wi de They follow a common English pattern that involves a vowel change (often to a shorter vowel) and the addition of th. Length, width, height, and depth are nouns are derived from the adjectives long, wide, high, and deep. And, as in two dimensions, terms like “length,” “width,” and “height” won’t feel natural or be clear for some shapes, like a tennis ball. When height would be unclear-for example if the figure is not “level” -people cannot know what is meant by width, depth, or height without labels, although length is generally still assumed to refer to the longest measurement on the figure.
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