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Coolie (Bengali: কুল) is a 2004 Indian Bengali-language action drama film directed by Swapan Saha, written by N.K. Salil and produced by Vijay-Laxmi Movies Pvt. Ltd. The film stars Mithun Chakraborty and Meghna Naidu along with Dulal Lahiri, Abhishek Chatterjee, Nishita Goswami, Subhasish Mukherjee in supporting roles.[1] This film marks the Bengali debut of Meghna Naidu and Nishita Goswami.[2][3] This movie was later dubbed in Bhojpuri with the same title.[citation needed]
Shiba (Mithun Chakraborty) is working as a coolie in Birpur Railway Station, and he is a hard-working man who cannot tolerate injustice towards the poor. Seema (Meghna Naidu), daughter of a wealthy businessman, during return to home, encounters with Shiba fighting goons in the station. After she reaches home, Seema's father asks why she was late. Seema replied that there was a situation in the station, and she met a coolie who was a very nice person. Shiba has a younger brother whom he has sent to Kolkata for studies, and in flashback, a scene appears, where Shiba's brother Dibyendu (Premjit Mukherjee) denies going for further studies to Kolkata at first because of financial problems, but later he agrees when Shiba told him that Shiba gave his words to their late mother to make his brother educated and established. During a railway strike, when Seema's car broke near the station, Shiba helps to fix the car. Seema asks him how come he knows car repairing. Shiba replied that he had done various works for the sake of living and today itself he has to earn 500 rupees so that he can send it to his brother for college fees and he doesn't know how he will do it as today is strike hence no passenger in the station so no work. After listening to everything, Seema gave him 599 rupees and told him that this is not a favor, but she is lending him as a token of friendship. But Shiba refuses to take the money. Mitali (Nishita Goswami) finds Dibyendu in a coffee shop working as a waiter and asks him why he is doing this. Dibyendu told her about his financial conditions, and then Mitali asks him to leave this job and instead to give her private tuition as he was a brilliant student. Dibyendu at first refuses to do so, but when Mitali's mother, who lost her son in years ago, mistakes Dibyendu as 'Subho', he agrees with Mitali's scheme and gives his words to Mitali's mother that he will come to meet her daily.Seema expresses her love for Shiba through a radio program. On another side, Mitali's father tells Dibyendu to forget all his past life and start his life as their son so that Mitali's mother can come out of her mental break down.Seema's father refuses their relationship, later goes to Shiba to threaten him and gives him some money to not to interfere in Seema's life. Seema quarrels with his father, and at last, she leaves her home and goes to Shiba to live together. On their first night, Shiba proposes to Seema that they will not have any child, as Seeba thinks of Dibyendu as his own child rather than his brother after their mother passed away.Seema's father sends a gift box (which eventually has drugs in it) to her newly married daughter as of her marriage gift. The next day police come and arrest Shiba. Seema's father refuses to arrange bail for Shiba as she refuses to forget him.Mitali's father assigned Dibyendu as his company's managing director and tells him about how Shiba got arrested for drugs. Mr. Chowdhury makes Dibyendu influence to sign an agreement that he will never look back to his past relations with his brother. Seema goes in search for Dibyendu, but Mr. Chowdhury insults her and calls the guard to throw her out of the house.Some goons try to misbehave with lone Seema when she was weeping alone in a temple. A mysterious man appeared, fights with them and saves Seema. The man told Seema not to walk around alone at night and asks her if she will come to his place. At first, Seema hesitates to go, but later she goes along with him. This man was Raja, who was a small time conman, living with a pickpocket girl named Rupasi and another two friends. They addresses Seema as their sister.Raja promises Seema that he will help her to meet Dibyendu, but when he arrived to Chowdhury's home, seeing the mental breakdown of Mrs. Chowdhury, Raja couldn't force Dibyendu to come with him.Shiba, gets released from jail due to his good behavior in jail and returning home, he encounters with Rupasi. Rupasi takes Shiba, where Seema was living with them, and they unite.Shiba goes to meet with his brother, but Dibyendu refuses to recognize his brother (as per agreement) and insults him in front of all company board members. Mitali meets Dibyendu outside of the meeting room, and gives him some money as a payoff for everything he has done for his younger brother Dibyendu and tells him not to interfere in their life.The rest of the movie deals with how Shiba deals with everything and reunites with his brother happily.
Later, in a court room scene, the evidence of the murder is presented. The evidence clearly suggests that the coolie never attempted to harm the merchant and the merchant killed the coolie. Will justice prevail?
There was only one alternative. I shoved the cartridges into the magazine and lay down on the road to get a better aim. The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from innumerable throats. They were going to have their bit of fun after all. The rifle was a beautiful German thing with cross-hair sights. I did not then know that in shooting an elephant one would shoot to cut an imaginary bar running from ear-hole to ear-hole. I ought, therefore, as the elephant was sideways on, to have aimed straight at his ear-hole, actually I aimed several inches in front of this, thinking the brain would be further forward.
In the end I could not stand it any longer and went away. I heard later that it took him half an hour to die. Burmans were bringing dash and baskets even before I left, and I was told they had stripped his body almost to the bones by the afternoon.
Afterwards, of course, there were endless discussions about the shooting of the elephant. The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing. Besides, legally I had done the right thing, for a mad elephant has to be killed, like a mad dog, if its owner fails to control it. Among the Europeans opinion was divided. The older men said I was right, the younger men said it was a damn shame to shoot an elephant for killing a coolie, because an elephant was worth more than any damn Coringhee coolie. And afterwards I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
Coolie hired labourer, or burden carrier in South Asia, China and Southeast Asian countries. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries labourers were indentured from India and China for plantation works in Madagascar, Mauritius, Fiji, West Indies, South Africa, and Southeast Asian countries. These labourers were commonly designated as coolie. In all these countries the term 'coolie' is also used to identify the labourers engaged in transportation, earth work, highway building, timber movement and so on. The labourers who built the railway tracks in the era of railway building in India were generally called coolie, and subsequently labourers who used to load and unload goods in railway stations and steamer ghats were also specified as coolie. Curiously, bulk of the labourers who built the first transcontinental railways in the United States of America was again called coolies. Most of these labourers were of course, indentured from China.
It is widely believed that the term coolie has originated from a labouring caste, Koli, in western India. An alternative suggestion goes that the term originates from 'Kol', an important branch of the Austric race in Bengal, who were vocationally specialized in digging earth and timber handling. As is known from the East India Company Factory records, the English and other European nations trading in India in the 17th and 18th centuries employed 'coolie' on their establishments for inland transportation of goods. With the abolition of slavery in the early 19th century, the coolie labour market became particularly competitive. Then practically all non-farm labours came to be known as coolies. There is reason to believe that coolie as a category of labour is the handiwork of the British colonial empire. The colonial plantations all over the empire were generally worked by coolie labour indentured from India and China. While there were indigenous coolies in Bengal, the supply of this category of labour for the Bengal labour market mainly came from Orissa, Madhyapradesh, Bihar, Chhotanagpur and Jodhpur. [Sirajul Islam]
The authorities decided to send another party to ascertain the fate of the first and continue the work. To induce volunteers, a handsome salary was offered; and at length an Englishman came forward. He asked for twice the number of native attendants that the first man had had. Government granted him his request and provided him with every facility procurable and he started.
He followed the course taken by his predecessor up a large river. He travelled in a big boat and his men in smaller ones. Here and there they came upon traces of the former party. They pushed on. Suddenly all indications of the missing ones ceased. He felt he had better stop and investigate. Tents were landed and pitched and the men began to prepare their evening meal.
Another spot was selected and here they stayed peacefully for some days. Suddenly a man was missing. Then another and another! Each disappeared when alone. The coolies were frightened and uneasy. But this time the Sahib managed to control them. He himself was anxious and puzzled.
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