Director: Anjan Choudhury; Writer: Anjan Choudhury; Producer: Bhabesh Kundu; Cinematographer: Shakti Banerjee; Editor: Swapan Guha; Cast: Tapas Paul, Ranjit Mullick, Shatabdi Roy, Kali Bannerjee, Shaktimala Barua, Soumitra Bannerjee, Bhabesh Kundu, Ishani Bannerjee, Shakuntala Barua, Sukumar Adak, Keshab Banerjee, Sourin Banerjee, Khudiram Bhattacharya, Nimu Bhowmick, Arpita Chakraborty, Barun Chakraborty, Bishu Chakraborty, Ajit Chowdhury, Banani Dasgupta, Alok Dey, Bishwanath Dey, Mita Dutta, Salil Dutta, Samir Ghosh, Bimal Kayal, Deben Mondal, Jayshree Mukherjee, Purnendu Mukherjee, Bishwanath Pramanik, Master Rintu, Pradip Roy, Reba Roy, Babla Saha, Bishwanath Sen, Narendra Singh
Summary: Major hit by the most successful Bengali
director of the 80s. The poor Jayanta (Paul)
loves Rupa, the rich daughter of the local
zamindar, but is also indebted to his music
teacher. When Jayanta upstages Rupa in a
music contest, the zamindar uses his financial
hold over the music teacher to extract a
promise that Jayanta will never sing again.
Eventually, when Jayanta shows he wants to
keep his promise come what may, the
zamindar relents and allows his daughter to
marry Jayanta. The film borrows from a bawdy
latter-day version of the folk jatra with its often
lewd speech (an idiom associated particularly
with this director), cueing the editing to the
dialogue. Lahiri departed from his usual
electronic rock score and composed several
hits in a ‘classical’ style.
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