Datta (1951 film)

Datta is a 1951 Bengali romantic drama film directed by Soumyen Mukhopadhyay^[1]^[2] and released under the banner of S. B. Production.^[3] The film is based on the novel with the same name written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.^[4] The film was remade twice: in 1976 and later in 2023.^[5]

Plot

Bijoya's father Banamali had informally engaged her to Naren, the son of his friend Jagdish. But Bijoya is attracted to Bilaas, son of another friend of Banamali. She has some hearsay knowledge about Naren and develops a negative image of Naren in her mind. But when she meets Naren, who is a doctor by profession the scenario starts changing. She starts to love Naren and realises that her conception about Naren is all wrong.

Cast

Sunanda Banerjee as Bijoya
Purnendu Mukherjee as Naren
Ahindra Choudhury as Rashbehari
Jahar Ganguly as Bilas
Anubha Gupta
Kali Sarkar
Sukhen Das

Music

Timir Baran composed the music

1976 remake

Director: Ajoy Kar
Music: Dwijen Chowdhury

Cast

Soumitra Chatterjee as Naren.
Suchitra Sen as Bijoya
Samit Bhanja as Bilas
Utpal Dutt as Rasbihari
Gita De
Sumitra Mukherjee as Nalini
Shailen Mukherjee
Dilip Bose

References

^ "Datta (1951)". Indiancine.ma. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-94318-9.
^ FilmiClub. "Datta (1951)". FilmiClub. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
^ "New movie based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali cult classic 'Datta' to release on June 16". The Economic Times. 5 June 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
^ "Movie to mark centenary of Sarat Chandra's Datta starring Rituparna Sengupta, Joy Sengupta". The Indian Express. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

External links

Datta at IMDb

[1] "Datta (1951)". Indiancine.ma. Retrieved 5 October 2023.

[2] Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-94318-9.

[3] FilmiClub. "Datta (1951)". FilmiClub. Retrieved 5 October 2023.

[4] "New movie based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali cult classic 'Datta' to release on June 16". The Economic Times. 5 June 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 5 October 2023.

[5] "Movie to mark centenary of Sarat Chandra's Datta starring Rituparna Sengupta, Joy Sengupta". The Indian Express. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

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