Bon Palashir Padabali

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Bon Palashir Padabali
Directed byUttam Kumar
Written byRomapada Chowdury
Screenplay byUttam Kumar (dialogue), Joydeb Basu (Additional dialogues)
Based onBon Polashir Padaboli
by Romapada Chowdhury
Produced byUttam Kumar
StarringUttam Kumar
Supriya Devi
Madhavi Mukherjee
Bikash Roy
CinematographyKanai Dey
Madhu Bhattacharya
Edited byKamal Ganguly
Music byRabindranath Tagore, Shyamal Mitra, Nachiketa Ghosh, Adhir Bagchi, Satinath Mukherjee
Production
company
Shilpi Sangshad
Distributed byShree Ranjit Pictures Pvt Ltd
Release date
9th February 1973
Running time
141 min
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Bon Palashir Padabali is a

drama film directed by Uttam Kumar, who also co-wrote the screenplay.[1] It is an adaptation of a 1960 same name novel by Ramapada Chowdhury.[2] This is a dream project for Uttam and one of the second film where he directed. The film was released on 9 February 1973, under the banner of Uttam' foundation Shilpi Sangsad. The film became a success at the box office.[3]
This is multi-starred film, starring Uttam himself with Supriya Devi, Anil Chatterjee, Bikash Roy and many others.

Plot

Girijaprasad Roy was a good student who secured first Division in the final exam. He was fond of Chhotoma whose husband was Bibhuti, the very first scholar of the village before Girija. Bibhuti changed his religion to Christianity so Chhotoma refused to go with him to City after death of Bibhuti's elder brother, Kalidas, who was a religious person and a critic of Bibhuti's religious transformation. Besides, Girija left his village for higher studies and came back after a long time. All of his villagers believed him to be rich. After a few days, everyone learned of his poor financial condition. His only daughter Bimala was attracted to Block Development Officer Pravakar. As Girijaprasad was not rich, everybody tried to neglect him and helped his only brother Girin who stayed in the same village. Girin was a wealthy and clever man. He deprived his elder brother and tried to make relation with Pravakar. But in the end, Girija's daughter Bimala was married to Pravakar instead of Girin's daughter Tia in the intervention of Girin's wife. On the other hand, Udas Kotal a soft-hearted, honest man wanted to learn driving for a better life. He married Laxmimoni to learn driving from his father-in-law. Laxmimoni's father taught him driving and made him an expert driver. Unfortunately, Laxmimoni had some psychological problem and as a result, she killed herself. Udas became very upset and after few days, he wanted to get married his childhood friend Padma but Padma refused to get married. Day by day Udas became an alcoholic, characterless bohemian kind of person. One day after a quarrel, he hears baseless and incorrect news that Padma was having an affair with the doctor, he goes to murder the doctor with a knife. In the darkness, drunken Udas killed his old mate Padma. As a result, he was convicted and sentenced to death. Doctor left the village.

Cast

Production

This is the second film directed by Uttam Kumar after the hit film Sudhu Ekti Bochor in 1966 under his own association Shilpi Sangshad. Shilpi Sangshad is a foundation which was founded by Uttam Kumar in 1968 to help poor artists and technicians. He always arranged function and concert to collect money for the fund. But that kind of money was not came. So he decided to make a big canvas film.[4] Uttam want to fulfilled the fund from the film profit. For his request every top artists and Uttam himself worked without any fees. Uttam also do screenplay and background music.

Soundtrack

Bon Polashir Padaboli
Feature film soundtrack
Length0:38:36
LabelAngel Digital Pvt Ltd
ProducerUttam Kumar

All lyrics are written by Rabindranath Tagore, Gauriprasanna Mazumder; all music is composed by Rabindranath Tagore, Shyamal Mitra, Adhir Bagchi, Satinath Mukherjee Most of the songs become popular.

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Dekhuk Para Porshite"
Dwijen Mukherjee
2:40
7."Bahudin Pare Bhramar Eseche"Utpala Sen3:14
8."Amar Monta Tane"Shyamal Mitra2:57
9."Ei To Bhaber Khela"Satinath Mukherjee2:57
10."O Tor Nijer Sukher Tare"Adhir Bagchi2:20
11."Biye Kore Anbo Ebar"Adhir Bagchi2:51
12."Dhin Kete Dhin Dhin Ta"Shyamal Mitra3:01
Total length:38:36

Reception

Uttam Kumar’s massive melodrama about passion, violence and politics in the small village of Bon Palashi. The film is narrated through two sets of characters whose stories are intercut and eventually merged. The first is the family of Girijaprasad, a retired and now impoverished school principal. His inability to invest in the progress of the village has the natives looking for a new leader in his former schoolmate, the businessman Abani. A long flashback, featuring the tragic history of Abani’s old aunt (Molina Devi), serves to frame Girijaprasad’s present crisis: his scheming brother offers the fiance of Girijaprasad’s daughter Bimala a larger dowry to marry his own daughter instead. The second protagonist is the peasant Udas (Uttam Kumar), who loves the good Padma (Choudhury) but is forced to marry the neurotic Laxmi (Nandi) in order to be allowed to learn to drive a bus. Laxmi kills Padma’s father and then commits suicide. Udas tries to get Padma to elope with him but he ends up trying to rape her and, eventually, he kills Padma. Plans to develop the village loom large in the melodrama but the film impresses mainly through its scale (the title means The Songs of Bon Palashi) and its recourse to several acting idioms, including folk theatre.[5]

Uttam direction was huge praised by the critics. Hindustan Standard wrote that time 'In Uttam Kumar we have found a director who shows his brilliance on diverse levels. That is main again in Bon Pilashir Padabali, whose 20,000 and odd feer are studded with sparklis of present achievement and future promise.' The film become blockbuster hit at the box office and become golden jubilee hit.[6]

Awards

BFJA Awards 1974[7]

References

  1. ISBN 9780199088621. Archived
    from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ^ "'Bon Palashir Padabali' writer Ramapada Chowdhury passes away at 95 - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ "BON PALASHIR PADABALI". Retrieved 30 October 2017. [dead link]
  4. ^ "Shilpi Sansad to produce big canvas Bengali film by Goutam Ghosh in 2019 | Entertainment". Devdiscourse. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Bon Palashir Padabali (1973)". Indiancine.ma. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  6. ^ "অন্য উত্তম কুমার". banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 23 July 2014. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ^ FilmiClub. "BFJA Awards 1974: Complete list of Awards and Nominations". FilmiClub. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.

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