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Wikipedia article




'Shap Mochan' is a Bengali romance drama film directed and produced by Sudhir Mukherjee based on a novel Sandhyaraag of Falguni Mukhopadhyay. This film was released in 1955 under the banner of Production Syndicate. Music director of the film was Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay.

Plot



Young Mahendra belongs to a family of musicians, but once the family is cursed by their teacher. Mahendra's elder brother becomes blind and to avoid the same fate he goes to Kolkata and lives in the house of his father's friend Umeshchandra. He gets romantically involved with Umeshchandra's daughter Madhuri. Madhuri tries to make Mahendra modern and pursue his musical career. In spite of having good singing ability, Mahendra refuses to accept this due to his family values. He leaves their home and takes shelter in Kolkata. But the curse strikes him also and he falls seriously ill.

Cast



* Uttam Kumar as Mahendra

* Suchitra Sen as Madhuri

* Pahari Sanyal as Debendra

* Kamal Mitra as Umeshchandra

* Bikash Roy

* Jiben Bose

* Amar Mullick

* Tulsi Chakraborty

* Gangapada Basu

* Suprobha Devi

* Tapati Ghosh

Soundtrack



Hemanta Mukherjee was the music director of the movie and composed tunes for the songs. Lyrics were written by Bimal Ghosh (as Kavi Bimal Chandra Ghosh).

References




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