Dui Purush (1945 film)

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Dui Purush
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Directed bySubodh Mitra
Produced by New Theatres
Starring Chhabi Biswas
Chandravati
Sunanda Banerjee
Ahindra Choudhury
CinematographySudhin Majumdar
Yusuf Mulji
Edited bySubodh Mitra
Music by Pankaj Mullick
Production
companies
New Theatres, Ltd.
Release date
  • 30 August 1945 (1945-08-30)
Running time
110 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali
Dui Purush

Dui Purush (English: Two Generations) is a 1945 Bengali language epic family drama film directed by Subodh Mitra. [1] Produced by New Theatres and adapted from Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's novel and popular stage play, with a screenplay by Binoy Chatterjee. The editing was done by Mitra, who was popularly known as Kachi Babu, and cited as one of the best editors in the film industry. [2] The music director was Pankaj Mullick with lyrics by Sailen Roy. The cinematographers were Sudhin Majumdar and Yusuf Mulji. The cast included Chhabi Biswas, Chandrabati Devi, Sunanda Banerjee, Ahindra Choudhury, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jahar Ganguly, and Naresh Mitra. [3]

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The film won the National Film Award for Best Film. [4] The film also won awards for Best Music for Pankaj Mullick, and Best Actress Award for Chandravati at the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Actress Award. It won five more awards at the 9th Annual BFJA Awards. [5]

Dui Purush involves three generations, and has the traditional theme of a poor social worker pitted against a rich Zamindar (Landowner).

Plot

Nutubehari, called Nutu, is a poor but educated social worker who sticks to his life's ideals and fights against the wealthy Zamindar for people's rights. He falls in love with Kalyani, a barrister's daughter. An enraged Zamindar has Nutu put in jail. When he gets out of jail, he finds Kalyani has been married off to someone else. Nutu marries Bimla, and starts a school in the village. He and Bimla have a son called Arun. Kalyani's husband dies and her in-laws throw her out of the house along with her infant daughter. She comes back to the village and takes shelter with Nutubehari who lets her run the school.

Years pass and Nutubehari has a court case against the Zamindar when he fights for one of the villagers. He has become a lawyer by now, joined politics, and amassed great wealth. He has also let go of his ideals. His son, Arun, is dismayed at the changes in his father. Arun also rebels against his arranged marriage as he now loves Kalyani's daughter Mamta (Latika). Finally, Nutu sees the error of his ways and reconciles with his former self.

Cast

Review

The review by Baburao Patel in Filmindia praised Chhabi Biswas as Nutubehari. Biswas had originally played the same role for the stage version. Chandravati as Bimla "competes successfully" with Biswas and her acting was commended for restraint. Ahindra Choudhary was stated to be "disappointing". The screenplay came in for harsh criticism, being called "utterly clumsy". The fact that an important character in the play, Sushobhan, played by Jawahar Ganguly on screen, was turned into a "frivolous" character, and the tragic death of Nutbehari avoided and the character allowed to live in the film also came in for censure. [2]

Remake

The film was remade in 1978 with the same title, Dui Purush, and was directed by Sushil Mukherjee. It starred Uttam Kumar as Nutbihari, Supriya Choudhury as Bimla, and Lily Chakraborty as Kalyani. [6]

Awards

Dui Purush won the following awards at the 9th Annual BFJA Awards: [5]

Soundtrack

The music was appreciated by the public and won awards for both the composer Pankaj Mullick, and lyricist Sailen Roy.

Song list

#Title
1"Ae Bijoyi Deene"
2"Behag Jodi Na Hoi Raji"
3"Prabhu Tomar Aashishe"
4"Tomar Ae Gaaner Hawa"
5"Orey Aamar Gaan Kothay"
6"Tomar Oi Surer"Ila Ghosh

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References

  1. ↑ "Dui Purush (1945)". Gomolo. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 Baburao, Patel (November 1945). "Review Dui Purush". Filmindia. 10 (11): 79. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dui Purush (1945)". Alan Goble. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 Rajendra Ojha; Screen World Publication (1998). Screen World Publication presents National film award winners: 1953-1997. Screen World Publication. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 "BFJAA 1946". bfjaaward.com. Bengal Film Journalists' Association. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dui Purush (1945)". indiancine.ma. Indiancine.ma. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
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