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Indrani (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Indrani' is a Bengali romantic drama film directed by Niren Lahiri based on a story of Achintya Kumar Sengupta. This film was released in 1958 under the banner of H.N.C. Productions. Nachiketa Ghosh was the music director of the movie.
Plot
Indrani Mukherjee the only daughter of a staunch brahmin in a village studies at Kolkata and stays in a girls' hostel. She meets Sudarshan Dutta, who had a brilliant career as a student and is doing his PhD. They fall in love, and Indrani wants to get married with him as soon as possible. She goes back to her village and informs her father of her intention to get married, Indrani's father takes umbrage as Sudarshan is not a Brahmin and also unemployed.
Sudarshan too warns Indrani that he won't be able to provide for her. Indrani marries Sudarshan and is tormented at Sudarshan's house by his mother and sisters in law because of several emotional strains at play. To avoid further complications at home, Indrani gets a job as a teacher in Dinajpur.
Their relationship between the newly married couple becomes complicated due to miscommunication or lack of communication between themselves, conflicting egos, misunderstandings and external elements adding fuel to the fire in an already charged emotional environment. One day, after a heated exchange between two people that started their journey fiercely loving and trusting one another, Sudarshan leaves Indrani and goes in search of a job elsewhere.
He there meets a retired teacher (Chhabi Biswas) with a dream of making a change in the lives of have-nots. They understand one another's aspirations and dream and team up to make a change by working in a remote village and improving its irrigation system by digging canal from a nearby river. News about his work and devotion gets published and he becomes famous.
Indrani is delighted to see the talent realized she always knew existed in Sudarshan (which is perhaps one of the reasons she fell in love with him) and leaves everything, even her successful position at Dinajpur to join him, her love of life. Sudarshan, however, was still sore at the hurt he thought he received due to Indrani, and was slightly reluctant to accept her in his life again. It then took an accident of fire for both of them to realise how much they loved one another and how much they cared for each other.
Cast
* Uttam Kumar as Sudarshan Dutta
* Suchitra Sen as Indrani Mukherjee
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191077/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4 Namita Sinha] as Indrani's roommate at hostel
* Chhabi Biswas
* Tulsi Chakraborty
* Jiben Bose
* Shyam Laha
*Tarun Kumar Chatterjee
*Gangapada Basu
*Chandrabati Devi as Sudarshan Dutta's mother
*Gita Dey as Sudarshan's second sister-in-law
Soundtrack
Every song became very popular of this film and one of the main reason for film success. This is the very first and last bengali film where the legendary hindi playback singer Md Rafi was sing.
* Surjo Dobar Pala Ase Jodi by Hemanta Mukherjee
* Neer Chhoto Kshati Nei by Hemanta Kumar, Geeta Dutt
* Durer Tumi Aaj by Geeta Dutt
* Bhangre Bhangre Bhang by Hemanta Mukherjee
* Jhanak Jhanak Kanak Knakan by Geeta Dutt
* Sabhi Kuchh Lutakar by Mohammad Rafi
* Ogo Sundar Jano Naki by Geeta Dutt
Production
During the song recording of the film composer Nachiketa Ghosh said, "I will put a Hindi song in this film and that will be sing Mohammad Rafi". Unimaginable thoughts. Hands on the heads of director and producers. Is this at all possible? Will Mohammad Rafi sing in Bengali movie? Will he agree at all? Who will convince? How much money do he want?
Then Hemant Mukherjee took the helm till the end. He was also a big Bengali name in Boli Para. Hemant Babu took Nachiketa Ghosh to Mohammad Rafi's house. Rafi invited them. After listening to the song 'Sabi kuch lutakar huye hum tumhare', Mohammad Rafi almost went crazy, ' Kya dhun banaya aapne! It's so sweet! ' Nachiketa Ghosh read the real thing. This is a Bengali picture. The producer can pay you up to five hundred rupees for singing. "Recording for five hundred rupees!" Rafi was startled. Nachiketa Ghosh Hemant Mukherjee got up when he saw Rafi getting scared. After that, it seemed that Rafi Saber! They are walking towards the door, at that time Rafi Saab called back. Said, "Leave, Leave it all that. I will sing this song for you for free."
References
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