Drishtidan
Drishtidan | |
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Directed by | Nitin Bose |
Written by | Rabindranath Tagore |
Screenplay by | Sajanikanta Das (Dialogues) |
Based on | Drishtidan by Rabindranath Tagore |
Produced by | Sunanda Bannerjee |
Starring | Asit Baran Sunanda Bannerjee Krishnachandra Dey Chhabi Biswas Ketaki Dutta Uttam Kumar Sandhyarani |
Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar |
Edited by | Kali Raha |
Music by | Rabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya |
Production company | S.B Production |
Release date | 31 December 1948 |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Drishtidan (Bengali: দৃষ্টিদান, Donating Eyes ) (1948) is an Indian Bengali feature film directed by Nitin Bose. Legendary actor Uttam Kumar debuted in this film. He acted as his birth name Arun Kumar Chatterjee in a small role of the hero Asit Baran's childhood role. He received ₹27 rupees salary for the film. When the film promotional poster released there is no mentioned of his name and he become sad to this and the film become flopped at the box office.
Plot
Kumudini (Sunanda Banerjee) is being blinded her husband yet her love, affection and sacrifice. Her husband (Asit Baran) is truly unparalleled. Kusum got married at the age of fourteen to a young man studying medicine. Within a year, Kumu fell very ill while giving birth at such a young age and her child died. He is sick but not dying but gradually his eyes develop problems. Her husband was studying medicine at that time. He started treating Kumru's eyes with his clumsy hands. Kumar Bhasur Thakur asked her husband to take special care that Kumar's eyes should not be damaged by treating him in this way.
The two brothers quarreled a lot about this. Kumu knows that her husband is not able to treat her eyes properly but to please him she continues as he says. Kumar Bhasur Thakur secretly wanted to treat him but Kumar refused. Finally trying to save her husband's heart, this young bride becomes blind forever.
Kumu realizes that her husband is responsible for the situation and apologizes to Kumu. She vows that she will never marry again and will have no place in her life for any woman other than her. She expresses hypocritical anger but is extremely happy with her husband. Gradually her husband completed his medical studies and became well known in the medical profession. Her husband started to change gradually as they started to provide a lot of money to their family.
After the quarrel that started between the two brothers over him being blinded, both parties realized their mistake and all the quarrels between the brothers ended. Her husband spends his days happily with Kumu. Kumar's PC mother-in-law wants to remarry Komar Swami with her brother's daughter Hemangi. Gradually he falls in love with Kumura's husband and forgets the promise he once made to her and sets off for marriage. But in the end he can't did it.
Cast
- Sunanda Bannerjee as Kumudini/Kumu
- Asit Baran as Dr Abinash Kumu's husband
- Uttam Kumar as Young Abinash
- Krishnachandra Dey
- Chhabi Biswas
- Ketaki Dutta as Young Kumu
- Sandhyarani
Soundtrack
Drishtidan | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 1948 |
Recorded | 1948 |
Studio | S.B Production |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Length | 0:06:04 |
Label | Pendujatt |
Producer | Sunanda Bannerjee |
All lyrics are written by Rabindranath Tagore; all music is composed by Rabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya.
No. | Title | Playback | Length |
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1. | "Tomra Ja Balo Tai Balo" | K.C Dey | 3:18 |
2. | "Se Kon Boner Harin" | Asit Baran, Supriti Ghosh | 2:46 |
Total length: | 06:04 |
References
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