Raat Bhore

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Raat Bhore
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Film poster
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Screenplay byMrinal Sen
Story bySwaraj Bandyopadhyay
Produced byS. B. Productions
Starring Uttam Kumar
Sabitri Chatterjee
Chhabi Biswas
Jahor Roy
Shobha Sen
CinematographyRamananda Sengupta
Edited byRamesh Joshi
Music by Salil Chowdhury
Release date
  • 21 October 1955 (1955-10-21)(Kolkata)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Raat Bhore [lower-greek 1] is a 1955 Bengali drama film directed by Mrinal Sen, who also wrote the screenplay. This was Sen's first film. [1] [2]

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Plot

A poor village boy's hazardous experience in a rich urban family.

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References

Citations

  1. "Mrinal Sen indian parallel cinema". cinemaofmalayalam.net. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  2. "Article on Mrinal Sen". Calcutta Web. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.

Notes

  1. Spelling according to Mrinal Sen's website