Bipasha (film)

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Bipasha
Directed by Agradoot
Written by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Screenplay by Gouriprasanna Majumder (Lyrics also) and Hindi Dialogues - Pandit Bhusan
Based onBipasha novel by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Starring Uttam Kumar
Suchitra Sen
CinematographyBijoy Ghosh, Bibhuti Laha
Edited byBaidyanath Chatterjee
Music by Robin Chatterjee
Production
company
Chitra Prayojok
Distributed byChandimata Films Private Limited
Release date
  • 1 January 1962 (1962-01-01)
Running time
133 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Bipasha is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language drama film starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. [1] [2] and directed by Agradoot. [3] The film is based on a novel titled Bipasha by Sri Tarashankar Bandyopadhay.The story fleetingly describes the horror of riots in West Pakistan during the time of Partition of India. [4] Bipasa was described as a victim of that riot in the film. However, the film deviates from the original novel and avoids describing Bipasha as a gang rape victim by Pakistani Islamist rioters.

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It is one of the many hit films in which Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen worked as a pair. The other cast members included Chhabi Biswas, Chhaya Devi, Pahari Sanyal, Jiben Bose and Tulsi Chakrabarti. [5]

Plot

The storyline goes when Dibyendu Chattopadhyay (Uttam Kumar) the young engineer meets Bipasha Bhattacharya (Suchitra Sen) in today's Maithon. Their acquaintance soon reaches a stage when the young couple decide to get married. However, on the night of her marriage to Dibyendu the latter fails to turn up due to a message sent to him by his uncle. Bipasha finds out Dibyendu's uncle and tracks him to Allahabad. Bipasha later finds that there were allegations against the moral character of Dibyendu's mother (Chhaya Devi).

The film revolves around the story of redemption of honour of Dibyendu's mother's in the eyes of society. It became known by the end of the film that Dibyendu's father (Chhabi Biswas) had been in an affair with and thereafter married an English girl. To save himself from being imprisoned for bigamy, he alleged that his wife (Dibyendu's mother) was unfaithful, and refused to acknowledge his own son (Dibyendu) as legitimate.

Cast

Production

For this role Sen got the payment of rupees one lakh and became the highest paid actor/actress in Bengali cinema at that time, while Uttam Kumar got the payment of rupees eighty thousands. After this film Sen permanently fixed her salary of one lakh. [6]

Soundtrack

Bipasha
Soundtrack album by
Robin Chatterjee
Released1962
Recorded1961
StudioChitra Prayojok
Length0:09:29
Label Angel Digital Pvt Ltd
Robin Chatterjee chronology
Shuno Baranari
(1961)		Bipasha
(1962)		 Surya Sikha
(1963)

All lyrics are written by Gouri Prasanna Majumdar; all music is composed by Robin Chatterjee

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Ami Swapne Tomay" Sandhya Mukherjee 3:17
2."Klantir Path" Sandhya Mukherjee 3:10
3."Rajani Pohalo" Sandhya Mukherjee 3:02
Total length:9:29

Reception

This film become blockbuster hit and ran over 80 days in theaters and this is one of the biggest hit of Uttam Suchitra pair. The film become highest grossing Bengali film in 1962. In an article honoring the actors 35 years after Uttam Kumar's death, The Indian Express wrote "Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar heralded the golden era of Bengali cinema", and listed Bipasha as among their most popular films. [7] The Telegraph listed it among the duo's "string of memorable hits", [8] and when speaking the two as box office draws, The Pioneer listed at as among their biggest hits. [9]

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