Bade Bhai Saheb Producer Rachnashala Productions, Directed by Kripi Singh Story Munshi Premchand

Bade Bhai Sahib is a light-hearted comic tale overflowing with humor and laced with an undercurrent of irony, satirizing several perennial issues - the system of education, teachers, and examinations, the problem of learning English, bookish knowledge, learning by rote, and the traditional axiom that a man is qualified to command respect, sermonize and pontificate just because he is older to you. Prem Chand brings to the centre of his story these questions only to dissolve them into fun and banter. And Prem Chand’s language! How difficult it is to capture in a translation its movement that seems like the flow of a limpid mountain stream dancing down smoothly and uninterruptedly over and through all obstacles en route. And so also the pretended seriousness of the narrator, the younger brother! Bade Bhai Sahib is among Prem Chand’s much-loved stories.