Do Ankhen Barah Haath

In an attempt to reform a group of murderers a jail warden takes them to farm in a barren land. There they are free and earn their daily bread by learning to farm. Slowly they are integrated into the society.

Inspired by a true story, this film is a reflection of a new independent India. This film has great music and the songs are superb. Being a period piece it has some over the top moments. It also has one of the greatest shot where the warden is sitting on a cot and the murderers sitting in front of him with a pistol in between and a lullaby being sung in the background. This film deserves a watch for that moment alone.

Do Ankhen Barah Haath is a drama movie directed by Late V. Shantaram and stars Late V. Shantaram, Sandhya, Late Baburao Pendharkar and late B.M. Vyas.

This movie is one of the milestone of Hindi cinema and has attained a status of cult classic. With great direction, superb acting and beautiful music. The song 'ae malik tere bande hum' was super hit at the time of it's release and is still used as prayers in Indian schools in many parts of India.

The plot of the movie is fresh and execution is superb, the best part of the movie is that the director hasn't wasted much time on character development introduction and kept his primary focus on the plot.

Screenplay is good and will keep you engaged to the movie, acting is great and music is superb. The songs of the movie were chartbusters. Climax of the movie is emotional but has perfect ending.

This is one of the greatest movies ever made and a must watch. An Indian classic.

I recently got the opportunity to see this movie (was airing on a movie channel), and felt really blessed and privileged to see it.

It may not be a technically perfect movie, but V.Shantaram has crafted a masterpiece in terms of portraying the characters and the plot to the audience in the simplest way. The movie is high on emotions as it tries to dig into some hard to call humans (convicts of single/multiple murders) and a warden who believes that with forgiveness and love, they can be cured to live in a civilized society.

In a lot of scenes the movie uses metaphorical representation/dialogues to convey the underlying emotion to the audience and I found this to be very very intriguing. The end specially I feel is unmatched on it. Something that a non-interested movie goer can understand, and something that an enthusiast can really appreciate.

I think the movie is not way ahead of it's time, but way behind. Something like Ramayana and Mahabharata, timeless.

During a phase of my life, I had a roommate who had used to sing "Ai malik tere bande hum" (O Lord, we're thy servants!) pretty often, and that was the only reason I watched this movie (the song was from this movie, he had told me!), when it was broadcast by Dordarshan, the National Television Channel of India, a few years later. And I must admit, it was a good movie. Sure, it had all those mandatory songs, but yet the songs didn't intrude into the movie, at least for an Indian such as I, used to heavy and endless dose of songs in movies.

To me, the most impressive point of this movie was its simple yet nice story (apparently based on a real-life incident), which was devoid of many so-called masalas (spices!)in spite of the era in which it was made (Compare Do Bigha Zamin for cheap sentimentality, for example) and yet executed well.

It's long-enduring impact can be seen from the spoof enacted by Annu Kapoor for a T.V. series (I don't remember its name, though) which used to be in Zee TV as recently as in 2003.

This is a great movie which touches the hearts of the viewers.Actually, I wanted to watch this film only because this film is said to be to be one of the best ones directed by V.Shantaram. A simple story well presented with good performances by all the actors. The music is good and the best song is undoubtedly the "Ai Malik,tere bandhe hum". The film is all about how a young jailer reforms 6 hardcore criminals without using any sorts of violence. The film scores primarily in the sentimental part,especially in the climax.The major plus point of the film is that it never bores you even for a minute.Easily,one of the best films made in Hindi.