Ora Thake Odhare

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Ora Thake Odhare (transl.They Live That Side) is a Bengali language romantic comedy film directed by Sukumar Dasgupta [1] based on a story by Premendra Mitra. [2] [3] This film was released on 5 February 1954 under the banner of S. M. Productions. [4] [5] The music direction was done by Kalipada Sen. [3] The film stars Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Chhabi Biswas and Tulsi Chakraborty.

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Ora Thake Odhare
Directed by Sukumar Dasgupta
Screenplay byPemendra Mitra (Lyrics and dialogues also)
Story by Pemendra Mitra
Produced bySukumar Dasgupta
Starring Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Chhabi Biswas
CinematographyBanku Roy
Edited byBiswanath Mitra
Music byKalipada Sen
Production
company
S.M Productions
Distributed byAurora Film Corporation Release
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
99 minutes
Language Bengali

Plot

This story revolves around the contemporary fights between the bangal and ghoti in 50's West bengal. Just after the partition, refugees were coming from east-Pakistan-they are bangal. The old residents of West bengal are ghatis. Both are bangali but there are some differences in pronunciations, in culture and also in ritiuals. Two families start to stay as neighbours. One of them is ghati family, Harimohan is their only casing ? member. He, his wife, son Chanchal and little girl Rini are his family members. In the opposite house, there are Shibadash his wife, son Naru, elder sister Joshoda, Shibadash's brother-in law Nepal and Shibadash's orphan niece Pramila. Chanchal teaches Promila as a private tutor. Naru and Rini play together happily, but the other male members of both the family often fight. They fight for everything, for football-match, for an iron machine or something like that. An affection between Chanchal and Promila grow up. It is revealed to the female members of both family. They agree to settle their marriage. Joshoda comes to propose Harimohan for his son but just before it, Harimohan comes to know that he has lost his job. He refuses and misbehaves with Joshoda. Harimohan doesn't find another job, and start borrowing money from kabuliwallah and from others. A day comes when he has to return all the money which he can't. They plan to escape. Rini comes to know about it and tells to Naru. Shibadash and Nepal start arranging the money for them, and Shibadash's wife gives the money. Harimohan with his family try to escape, but come to know that Shibadash and Nepal have already returned all the money. Their relationship takes a new twist. Finally their fight leads to a love affair between two person.

Cast

Soundtrack

Ora Thake Odhare
Soundtrack album by
Kalipada Sen
Released1954
Recorded1953
StudioS.M Productions
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length0:08:18
Label Angel Digital Private Limited
Producer Sukumar Dasgupta

All lyrics are written by Pemendra Mitra; all music is composed by Kalipada Sen

Songs
No.TitleLength
1."Hello Hello Hello"3:15
2."Keno Theke Theke Amar"2:57
3."Oi Ashe Oi Ashe Oi"3:06
Total length:8:18

Reception

The film showed the bengali's popular fight between Ghoti and Bangal. The Times Of India wrote Sukumar Dasgupta shows the age-old battle between a West Bengali ‘ghoti’ family and a ‘bangal’ family from East Bengal. It deals with the friction between two communities that exists since almost eternity. [6]

The film become hit at the box office and ran for near of 50 days in the theaters. After the film Uttam and Suchitra pair is permanently kept there magic on Bengali's heart. The mass audiences was like them. [7]

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