Nadi Theke Sagare
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Arabinda Mukhopadhyay
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Sandhya Roy
- Debashree Roy
- Mithun Chakraborty[3]
- Chhaya Devi
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Rabi Ghosh
- Anup Kumar
- Gita Dey
- 4 August 1978 (1978-08-04)
Nadi Theke Sagare (Bengali: নদী থেকে সাগরে) (transl. From river to ocean) is a 1978 Bengali feature film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[4] The film was written by Prasanta Chowdhury.[5] The screenplay was written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[6][7] It revolves around a prostitute who struggles to get her daughter married to a decent man.[8] It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar.[9][10][11][12] Debashree Roy was credited as Rumki Roy in the film.[6] The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[13]
This is the film where Debashree Roy, for the first time played a leading role.[14] It was the first film where Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy collaborated together.[15] She played Champa, the unfathered daughter of Sohagi played by Sandhya Roy, and had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given.[16] She drew critical favour for her gaze in the film. Soumitra Chatterjee and Ajitesh Banerjee won critical favour for their performance in the film.[17] The film was a major success at box office.[18][19]
Plot
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Sohagi is a prostitute who attempts to commit suicide as she has been deceived by a man whom she loved. She is saved by Shyamapada who is a priest. She returns to Basak Lane where she works as a prostitute. She gives birth to daughter named Champa. When Champa grows up, her mother Kusum insists that she be a prostitute just like Sohagi but she refuses her mother's proposal stating that she wants Champa to marry Sagar.
Cast
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Shyamapada
- Sandhya Roy as Sohagi
- Debashree Roy as Champa: Sohagi's daughter
- Mithun Chakraborty as Sagar
- Chhaya Devi as Bhabadasi
- Shamita Biswas as Kusumdasi
- Gita Dey
- Sulata Chowdhury
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Rabi Ghosh
- Anup Kumar
- Mrinal Mukherjee
- Ajit Chatterjee
References
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- ^ "Revisiting Mithun Chakraborty's significant works in Bengali cinema — birthday special". www.cinestaan.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ "সিনেমার জন্য ডাক্তারি ছেড়েছিলেন এই পরিচালক". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "বাংলা ছবির আইকনিক 'মা' ছায়াদেবী, বাস্তবে তাঁকে আগলে রেখেছিলেন মানসকন্যা তনুশ্রী-দেবশ্রী | TheWall". 3 June 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Lesser Known Facts about Debasree Roy". filmsack. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation' (e-Book) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "নদী থেকে সাগরে". banglacinema100.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 25 May 2023.
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- ^ FilmiClub. "Nadi Theke Sagare (1978)". FilmiClub. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "Nadi Theke Sagare (1978)". gomolo.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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- ^ "ধন্যি ঢুলুবাবু - Anandabazar". anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ কলকাতা. "পুরনো জুটিই কি এখন হিট? মিঠুন-দেবশ্রীর প্রত্যাবর্তন উস্কে দিল 'ত্রয়ী'র স্মৃতি". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ "ঢাকায় আসছেন দেবশ্রী, উদ্দেশ্য চট্টগ্রাম রেলস্টেশন". BanglaTribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ^ "Soumitra Chatterjee – Bengal's Last Renaissance Man". The Wire. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ "Arabinda Mukherjee, director of timeless Bengali flicks Mouchak, Dhanyee Meye, dies". NEWSMEN. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ "Mithun Chakraborty's next movie announced, actor all set to reunite with yesteryear heroine". The Times of India. 17 October 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ Dissanayake, Wimal (1993). "The concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic". In Dissanayake, Wimal (ed.). Melodrama and Asian Cinema. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41465-4. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
External links
- Nadi Theke Sagare at IMDb
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