While the description provided by the cable wasn't interesting enough - describing only that it was about a doctor running a clinic - the star cast was interesting, and by experience now one knows there are often pleasant surprises when it comes to Bangla films. There were, several.
Chief of them was, it began to seem familiar, and suddenly one knew why - there is a sort of adaptation or remake in Hindi with a southern production, Dil Ek Mandir, which is quite famous and has some of the top artists of the day - but of course it was a very simplified, overtly emotional version with none of the subtleties or complexities of this one. Instead of the mother and her very sick son, the hindi version had an ex paramour of the doctor arrive seeking to cure her husband, and then quite some drama. Here the emotionsl tones were subtle, and were kept so to the very end.
Ruma Guha Thakurta who is here named Ruma Ganguly- presumably she still used the name while she worked in this film - is superb, as ever. But most attractive aside, of course, is the ever beautiful wafting of poetry and music of Tagore from time to time.
Movie : Khaniker Atithi
Language : Bengali
Genre : Drama, Classic
Director : Tapan Sinha
Story : Nirmal Kumar Sengupta
Music Director : Hemant Kumar
Lyricist : Atul Prasad Sen
Playback : Hemant Kumar
Release : 1959
Star Cast : Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee, Dilip Roy, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Tulsi Lahiri, Nripati Chatterjee, Ruma Ganguly, Sriman Tarun, Nirmal Kumar, Ajit Chatterjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Rasuraj Chakraborthy, Biren Chatterjee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8RxNZj_Q9OI
Chief of them was, it began to seem familiar, and suddenly one knew why - there is a sort of adaptation or remake in Hindi with a southern production, Dil Ek Mandir, which is quite famous and has some of the top artists of the day - but of course it was a very simplified, overtly emotional version with none of the subtleties or complexities of this one. Instead of the mother and her very sick son, the hindi version had an ex paramour of the doctor arrive seeking to cure her husband, and then quite some drama. Here the emotionsl tones were subtle, and were kept so to the very end.
Ruma Guha Thakurta who is here named Ruma Ganguly- presumably she still used the name while she worked in this film - is superb, as ever. But most attractive aside, of course, is the ever beautiful wafting of poetry and music of Tagore from time to time.
Movie : Khaniker Atithi
Language : Bengali
Genre : Drama, Classic
Director : Tapan Sinha
Story : Nirmal Kumar Sengupta
Music Director : Hemant Kumar
Lyricist : Atul Prasad Sen
Playback : Hemant Kumar
Release : 1959
Star Cast : Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee, Dilip Roy, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Tulsi Lahiri, Nripati Chatterjee, Ruma Ganguly, Sriman Tarun, Nirmal Kumar, Ajit Chatterjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Rasuraj Chakraborthy, Biren Chatterjee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8RxNZj_Q9OI
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