Shap Mochan

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Shap Mochan
Directed bySudhir Mukherjee
Written by Falguni Mukhopadhyay
Screenplay byNripendrakrishna Chatterjee (Dialogues)
Based onSandhyaraag
1955 Story
by Falguni Mukhopadhyay
Produced bySudhir Mukherjee
Starring
CinematographyDeoji Bhai
Edited byBaidyanath Chatterjee
Music by Hemanta Mukherjee
Lyricist - Poet Bimal Chandra Ghosh
Production
company
Production Syndicate
Distributed byMehta Pictures
Release date
  • 27 May 1955 (1955-05-27)
Running time
172 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Shap Mochan is a Bengali romance drama film directed and produced by Sudhir Mukherjee based on a novel Sandhyaraag of Falguni Mukhopadhyay. This film was released in 1955 under the banner of Production Syndicate starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in lead. [1] [2] Music director of the film was Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay. [3]

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Plot

Young Mahendra belongs to a family of musicians, but once the family is cursed by their teacher. Mahendra's elder brother becomes blind and to avoid the same fate he goes to Kolkata and lives in the house of his father's friend Umeshchandra. He gets romantically involved with Umeshchandra's daughter Madhuri. Madhuri tries to make Mahendra modern and pursue his musical career. In spite of having good singing ability, Mahendra refuses to accept this due to his family values. He leaves their home and takes shelter in Kolkata. But the curse strikes him also and he falls seriously ill.

Cast

Production

At first director Sudhir Mukherjee wanted to Sachin Dev Barman as music director for the film but Barman rejected the offer to give time from his busy schedule. Then Hemanta Mukherjee who is in Mumbai that time he wanted to return to Kolkata showing any reason when he heard this news he immediately meet to Sudhir Mukherjee and signed for the film. This is marked beginning of Uttam Kumar Hemanta Kumar duo, but many people said this not the first time that Hemanta sing on Uttam's leap. They first worked in Sahajatri in 1951. But there is no footage available of Sahajatri. So Shapmochon officially recognized as their beginning. [4]

Soundtrack

Shapmochon
Soundtrack album by
Hemanta Mukherjee
Released1955
Recorded1954
StudioProduction Syndicate
Length0:20:00
Label Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Producer Sudhir Mukheejee
Hemanta Mukherjee chronology
Swapno O Samadhi
(1952)		Shapmochon
(1955)		 Surya Mukhi
(1956)

The songs become very popular. Hemanta Mukherjee was the music director of the movie and composed tunes for the songs. Lyrics were written by Bimal Ghosh (as Kavi Bimal Chandra Ghosh). [5]

All lyrics are written by Poet Bimal Chandra Ghosh; all music is composed by Hemanta Mukherjee

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Tribeni Tirthapathe Ke Gahilo Gaan" Pratima Banerjee, Chinmoy Lahiri 2:50
2."Shono Bandhu Shono"Hemanta Mukherjee2:31
3."Surer Aakashe Tumi Je Go"Hemanta Mukherjee2:54
4."Jhar Uthechhe Baul Batas"Hemanta Mukherjee3:17
5."Kaliyan Sang Karat Rang Raliyan"D.V.Paluskar5:01
6."Bose Achhi Path Cheye"Hemanta Mukherjee3:27
Total length:20:00

Reception

The film became a blockbuster hit and ran near 100 days in theater. The songs become popular and contributed a lot to the film's success. After the film, The Uttam-Hemanta combination became iconic and hugely successful and regarded as the most popular singer-actor duo in the history of Bengali Cinema. [6]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Shap Mochon (1955)". indiatimes.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Uttam Kumar - Suchitra Sen in SHAPMOCHAN". washingtonbanglaradio.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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