Chandrabati Devi

Devdas - 1935|
1935
Devdas - 1935
1935 | 131 min
The son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro. They grew up sharing a special relationship, in which they existed only to each other. Oblivious of all the differences of status and background, a bond that would never break grew between them. Slowly, it changed to love but it was still unsaid. But the reverie was broken when his family sent Devdas to Calcutta for education. Paro's world crashed knowing that her Devdas would be gone and she lit a diya, for it signified the fast coming back of her loved one. Years passed and Devdas returned. Devdas was besotted by her stunning beauty and longed to have her back. But Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas' father, met Paro's mother Sumitra's marriage proposal with condescending arrogance. It caused a rift between the families and even though Devdas tried to convince his father, the only antagonism came his way. Will he be able to move away from Paro and his life?
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Kankabatir Ghat|
1955
Kankabatir Ghat
1955 | 145 min
A tragic story depicting and highlighting the disastrous destiny of the ethnic, eternal Indian woman 'Kangkabotir Ghat' is about the banks of river Ganga in the village of Atashi from where Sati Kangkabati, the great wife of Mr. Mukherji an artist, committed suicide in an eternal ritual fashion to save her ailing and dying husband. The legend here emphasises that if the wife sacrifices her life in the waters of Ganga, then the husband would revive. After Kangka bati commits suicide, the eccentric Mr. Mukherjee turns mad out of shock and grief and leaves the village with their infant daughter Uma who is latter abducted by the shrewd escort Chameli. Uma grous up under Chameli's parentage, under the name of Sheela, while all the years the insane Mukherjee goes searching for Uma, not realizing that his daughter is in front of his very own eyes. Sheela alias Uma fall in love with Pradip but abandons ? has when a misunderstanding consciously created by Chameli arises. Later a pregnant Uma leaves Chameli and starts residing separately with Mr. Mukherjee which ? Pradip marries for the second time. His second wife is Mrinaal. Co-incidentally Pradip, Mrinal, the rest are also from the same village of Atashi and thus respect Kangkabati's sacrifice immensely. Pradip and Uma meet after 7 long years through Pradip-Uma's enstranged son. Pradip is shocked to see Uma's poverty & his own son doing hawkery in the lanes of Kolkata. After returning to Atashi, he falls severely sick and ultimately marches towards death. Meanwhile in Kolkata, amidst all formalist. The real truth is revealed by Nandua, an ally of Chameli and Mr. Mukherjee and Uma realizes that they are the father daughter in reality. The father daughter duo gets the news about Pradip's sickness. Uma runs to save the life of her husband who is now somebody else's husband. She meets her rival Mrinaal with almost compassion, keeps her son at her refuge and follows the same path of her mother Kangkabati to save the life of her long lost love. In the end Uma commits suicide in the waters of Ganga with a lamp on her head. The frustrated father Mukherji wails in vain and the couple - Mrinal Pradip unite with Uma's son as their legitimate and only heir.
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Raikamal|
1955
Raikamal
1955 | 116 min
Raikamal narrates the story of Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna. Rai Kamal and Ranjan are childhood sweethearts. When Ranjan grows up he wishes his desire to marry Rai but his parents are against this match as they are Brahmins and Rai Kamal was a low caste Vaishnav. Ranjan's father requests Kamini, Rai' mother to convince Rai to sever the relationship. Rai's mother leaves the village with Rai. Rashik Das, a minstrel accompanies them to Nabadweep. After Rai's mother's death she is forced to marry Rashik despite their huge age gap to stop the people from gossiping about them. But, they are never able to share a normal relationship of a couple. Rashik leaves Rai and goes away as he knows that Rai can love only Ranjan. Rai gets to know that Ranjan had left the village with Pori and converted into a Vaishnav. Circumstances again bring Rai and Ranjan together. Ranjan takes her to his house. Ranjan tells her that he had been waiting for her all the while and proposes to marry her. An ailing Pori also requests Rai to marry Ranjan but Rai leaves his house and takes to the streets once again. Rashik keeps following her like her shadow to shield her from everything without her knowledge.
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Prithivi Amarey Chai|
1995
Prithivi Amarey Chai
1995 | 150 min
Tapas Singha is an aspiring singer and the son of a reputed businessman. His stepmother gives him a bad name and throws him out of his house to inherit all the property of her husband. Mina s story is also very similar. Her stepmother tortures her a lot and ruins her career. She is compelled to move out of her own house. They both decide to commit suicide and go to the riverbank. Where they meet and the cupid strikes. Together they decide to give life one more tries; on the other hand, we get to see another couple Lalu and Leela. Leela is a cousin of Tapas and Lalu, the goon with a heart of gold is a neighbour of Mina. Lalu and Leela were married in the childhood, but they were separated due to unfortunate circumstances. Tapas and Mina in search of a living starts to work for a millionaire and his wife respectively. But problem arises again as the employer thinks that Tapas is having an affair with his wife and fires him. Mina breaks down and starts to search for Tapas as he goes missing. Finally, during the climax Mina and Tapas get reunited and so does Lalu and Leela, and the audience gets to see a happy ending.
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Dui Bon - 1955|
1955
Dui Bon - 1955
1955 | 94 min
Dui Bon' is the story of two cousin sisters Himani and Ulka. Ananda, an upcoming writer leaves his village to pursue his writing career in Kolkata. He rents a room in Mr. Bishwambhar Dutta's house. Ulka is Mr. Dutta's daughter and Himani is his niece. Ulka goes to college and pursues music while Himani is neglected and has to do the household chores. Ananda develops feelings for Himani. Ananda's book 'Jorer sanket' written under the pseudonym Gautam Basu gets good response from reader and Ulka falls in love with the writer. Ulka discovers a page written by Ananda an mistakes it for a love letter written to Himani. Ananda is thrown out of the house. After the release of Ananda's second book Ulka realizes her mistake. She also finds out that Ananda is actually Gautam Basu. Ananda and Himani's marriage is fixed. When Ulka finds out she tries to commit suicide but Kalipada's presence of mind saves her.
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Pathey Holo Deri|
1957
Pathey Holo Deri
1957 | 126 min
Jayanta Mukherjee is a hard-working young doctor who belongs to a middle class family and prefers to live by his means. Mallika is the only grand-daughter of the rich aristrocrat Sripati and is known for her beautiful voice and charming personality. As they meet, interact and time progresses, a strong bond of friendship and love is developed between them. However Sripati is against this relation because he has already decided to give Mallika s hand in marriage to Pramatesh, a rich lawyer. Besides he does not count Jayanta as someone who could match upto his status. Jayanta works hard day and night as he wishes to earn enough money to pursue further studies abroad. Mallika offers to give her dead mother s jewellery to Jayanta so that he can earn the required degree abroad which would in turn make Sripati accept their relation. After much hesitation, Jayanti takes it and sets off for England. Sripati takes the advantage of the situation and creates misunderstanding between them. He intercepts all the letters which Jayanta sends Mallika and tells him that Mallika was already married to Pramatesh and living happily. To Mallika he tells that Jayanta is a fraud whose only aim was to get money out of her. In England, Jayanta meets Arati, his patient. Arati develops a soft corner for him but Jayanta does not reciprocate. Jayanta returns to India. One day he is requested by Arati to nurse her niece s singing teacher as she was suffering from prolonged illness. Jayanta finds out that she is none other than Mallika. He comes to know that she had fled from her grandfather s house and never got married. Jayanta shows her the letters and it is proven that Sripati was the reason for the miscommunication. They get together once again.
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Marutirtha Hinglaj|
1969
Marutirtha Hinglaj
1969 | 118 min
Marutirtha Hinglaj is a 1969 Indian Bengali film, directed by Bikash Roy and Bikash Roy. The film star Uttam Kumar, Sabitri Chatterjee, Pahari Sanyal, Chandrabati Devi, Bikash Roy, Sandhya Devi, Asha Devi & Anil Chatterjee in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee.
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Jiban Jijnasa|
1971
Jiban Jijnasa
1971 | 148 min
Indra is a very well known, wealthy, rich, arrogant person who used to live his childhood with his aunt. His aunt is his only guardian. A girl called Radha lives with his aunt. Both Indra and Radha likes each other very much. They spent a long time together and thus became good friends and then lovers. But Indra then decided to go to England to have a Law degree. So he flies to UK. But in the meantime Radha became pregnant .She realizes that this is the symbol of their love, but she never told anybody about it. One day Indra s aunt came to know about the pregnancy of Radha. She insisted her to reveal the whole thing but Radha remain silent. After that Radha tries to communicate with Indra but fails to do so. So she gives birth in a very unpleasant situation but her baby gets a very poor treatment due to her poverty. The condition of the child gone bad to worse and then the child did not live longer. After that she gone to a brothel and faced a murder charge. During the trial procedure Indra recognizes her and then helped her.
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Rajkannya|
1965