Baghini (1968 film)

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Baghini
Directed byBijay Bose
Starring Soumitra Chatterjee
Sandhya Roy
Rabi Ghosh
Music by Hemant Kumar
Mukul Dutt
Release date
  • 30 August 1968 (1968-08-30)
Country India
Language Bengali

Baghini is a 1968 Bengali drama film directed by Bijay Bose and produced by Girindra Singha. [1] The movie is based on a same name novel of Samaresh Basu. [2] [3] Soumitra Chatterjee stars as the main hero, Chiranjib, and Sandhya Roy plays the film's heroine, Dugga. Jahar Roy plays Dugga's father, a liquor merchant; Rabi Ghosh plays Bhola, the villain. [4] In the end, Bhola is killed by Dugga. She marries Chiranjib before going to jail. [5]

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Cast

Soundtrack

Baghini
Soundtrack album by

All lyrics are written by Mukul Dutt; all music is composed by Hemant Kumar [5]

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Jodio Rojoni Pohalo" Lata Mangeshkar  
2."Mon Niye Ki Morbo" Asha Bhosle  
3."O Kokila Tore Shudhai Re" Manna Dey  
4."O Radhe Thomke Geli Keno" Hemant Kumar  
5."Jokhon Daklo Bashi" Hemant Kumar as Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay  

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