Nishipadma

Nishipadma

Sabitri Chatterjee, Uttam Kumar

Quoted from the blurb:-

" .... Nishi Padma is a 1970 Bengali drama film written and directed by Aravinda Mukherjee, .. based on a short story Hinger Kochuri by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and starring Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee as leads. The film had music by Nachiketa Ghosh, and went on to win two awards at the 1970 National Film Awards: Manna Dey won Best Male Playback Singer for "Ja Khushi Ora Bole", while Sandhya Mukherjee won the Best Female Playback Singer for "Ore Sakol Sona Molin Holo"."

This original has much natural and real to it, lending it a beauty and a heartbreaking quality, that changed to glamour and artifice in the Hindi remake, a loss for the general viewers. This original has a soothing quality to the music and singing, the performance of Uttam Kumar, and a reality to the setting, to the being and dressing and performance of Sabitri Chatterji, that's mostly missing from the Hindi remake with its glamourised dress and makeup replacing the real portrayals of the Bengali original.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fedber6VlyA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtB3PCJTW3c