Human uses of birds with effective mimicry of birds. The play's chorus consists of characters playing many identifiable species, including the kingfisher, turtledove, and sparrowhawk; birds feature as messengers and dancers, and several Athenians are compared to specific birds. In film, birds can feature as the major driving force in a story, as in Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed 1963 "The Birds". Loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's story of the same name, it tells the tale of sudden attacks on people by violent flocks of birds. A bird plays the role of an outlet for a person's feelings in Ken Loach's much admired 1969 "Kes".
Bahurani (1963 film) Bahurani (1963 film) Bahurani ("Daughter-in-law") is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language film directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha and Feroz Khan in lead roles. It is a remake of the Telugu movie "Ardhangi", which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel "Swayamsiddha", written by Manilal Banerjee. "Swayamsiddha" went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name. "Ardhangi" was remade in Tamil as "Pennin Perumai" and was also remade again in Hindi as "Jyoti" in 1981. The story of "Swayamsiddha" was also similar to the Kannada novel "Mallammana