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Wikipedia article




'Dharitri' is a social satire drama in Odia, released on 30 March 1973. It is based on Amulya Kumari Patnaik's novel of the same name. Sarat Pujari, Prashant Nanda, Sriram Panda, Parbati Ghosh and Dhira Biswal acted in key roles.

Synopsis



Girish Choudhury is a pseudo-social activist and politician. He has two sons, Subhendu and Sudhir. To get popularity in society, he gets his daughter-in-law from a poor family for his son Subhendu. Subhendu doesn't like his wife Mamata and stays in town engaged in the contracting business with the help of his father. Girish's wife always tortures Mamata and asks for dowry. Mamata silently bears all the pain and torture caused by her mother-in-law. Sudhir, a revolutionist, doesn't accept the things happening in his house and revolts against his father, mother and brother. at last he gets success uniting Subhendu and Mamata.

Cast



* Sarat Pujari as Subhendu Choudhury

* Bhanumati Devi as Girish's wife

* Prashant Nanda as Rabi

* Sriram Panda as Sudhir Choudhury

* 'Dhira Biswal' as Girish Choudhury

* 'Sandhya Acharya' as Mamata

* 'Bhim Singh' as Braja

* 'Govind Tej' as Usha's father

* 'Shyamalendu Bhattacharjee' as Sudhir's friend

* 'Dinabandhu Das' as Murali

* 'Babaji Sahu' as Mamu

* 'Narendra Behera' as Sudhir's friend

* 'Aneema Pedini' as Ragini

* 'Alpana Nayak' as Usha

Soundtrack



The music for the film was composed by Upendra Kumar.



Trivia



Actor Sriram Panda debuted in the film.

Awards



* 2nd Orissa State Film Awards 1974

** Best Film

** Best director - Nitai Palit

References




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