The Proletariat in Chand Grehan (week 11)

‘Hum malik hain is zameen k’ & ‘hum KAMMIYON ko paise dain ge’

These two dialogues sum up the whole argument of my blog. The bourgeois class, Syed Laal Hussain Shah, has a complete control over the proletariat class, in this case the kammi, of the society. The ‘kammi’ class is completey submissive to the elite class due the abundance of resources and power the latter possesses. ‘Hum apne jism ki chamri ki parchi daalain ge’ reiterates the fact that the proletariat has no other option but to conform to the demands of the upper class. This is basically what the drama is critiquing that the power politics of the ‘Power-Trinagle’ is so manipulative that a person with no or little resources is helpless and has to look up to these power-hungry landlords.

An extremely rigid class structure is seen in this drama where the lower class can never accede to the elite class and they will continue to touch Laal Hussain Shah’s feet; not out of respect but mostly out of fear and power difference. The drama in the end concluded that the Power-Triangle always perpetuates and the proletariat has no option but to obey the rules of the ‘Vadera’. The two election results shown in the drama further illustrates my point that no matter if the proletariat decides to use its power of vote to change the system but the power remains within the landlords. The power amongst the landlords might change but the power distribution amongst the class hierarchy is there to stay.

Hence, the proletariat is a powerless, fearful submissive body of people who have to bare the cruel gestures of the ‘vaderas’ and accept that the latter’s power is eternal.