Comparison between Oliver Twist and Pocket Maar

1. Comparison between Oliver Twist and
Pocket Maar(1974)
• Name :- krishna K Patel
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• Topic :- comparison between Oliver Twist and Pocket Maar
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2. About Oliver Twist and Pocket Maar
Oliver Twist Pocket Maar

3. Beginning
Oliver Twist
• A man Taken Oliver at
the orphanage.
• A man asked him are
you an Orphan?
• Oliver replied that what
is an Orphan
Pocket Maar
• In the beginning of this
movie, we can see the
romance between Asha
and Madan(who is
married but Asha
doesn’t know).
• And Madan has Jailed
for one year.

4. Similarities
Oliver Twist
• Oliver is an Orphan
boy.
• He is a pick-pocket.
• He has a good and
happy ending.
Shankar
• Shankar is an orphan
man.
• He is a pick-pocket .
• He has a good happy
ending.

5. Similarities
In Oliver Twist
• Oliver, Dodger, and
Bates went outside to
work pickpocket.
• But Oliver is caught by
the larger crowed.
• Dodger and Bates use
smartness and joined in
crying “Stop thief!”
In Pocket Maar
• Shankar and Sundar are
travelling in the train.
• Sundar becomes a
saint.
• Shankar tries to
pickpocket.
• But he is caught.
• People are crying “Stop
thief!”.

6. Character comparison
Agnes Fleming Ganga

7. Character comparison
Mr. Leeford Mohan

8. Dissimilarity
Oliver Twist
• In this movie or
novel, Oliver is a
child.
• There is no single
scene shown of
romance of Oliver.
Pocket Maar
• In this movie,
Shankar is young
man.
• There are many
scenes shown of
romance of Shankar
and Asha .

9. Ending
Oliver Twist
• Brownlow arranges for
Monk’s Property to be
divided between Monks
and Oliver.
• Brownlow adopts Oliver
as his son.
• Happy ending.
Pocket Maar
• Ganga stops the
marriage of Asha and
Madan.
• She reveales the reality
of Madan.
• Shankar and Asha meet.
• Happy ending.

10. Another Example…
• Chain Kulii ki Main
Kulii
• In this movie, Karan
is an orphan boy.
• He lives in an
orphanage.
• Raghav harasses to
Karan.

11. Conclusion
• Thus, we can see at two different stories with
some structures. Both the stories come from
different background, still we can see many
similarities between the western culture and
Indian culture.

12. References
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016159/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0N4Dee7e
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIx8sitl_5I
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Maar_(197
4_film)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfdLAeH0tN
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