Stree (1972 film)

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Stree
Stree (1972) poster.jpg
Directed by Salil Dutta
Written by Bimal Mitra
Screenplay bySalil Dutta
Based onStree by Bimal Mitra
Produced byPradyot Kumar Basu
Starring
CinematographyBijoy Ghosh
Edited byAmiyo Mukhopadhyay
Music by Nachiketa Ghosh
Production
company
Baby June Production
Distributed byS. B. Films
Release date
  • 18 August 1972 (1972-08-18)
Running time
141 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Stree is a 1972 Indian Bengali-language period romantic action drama film directed by Salil Dutta. The film is based on the novel of Bimal Mitra by the same title and the era of the plot showing during the Second World War. [1] Produced by Baby June Productions marking their second venture, it stars Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee and Arati Bhattacharya in lead roles. [2] The soundtrack of the film was composed by Nachiketa Ghosh, [3] with the lyrics penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder and Pulak Bandyopadhyay.

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The film showed Uttam's one of the best performance and clash with Soumitra. The film became a blockbuster hit at the box office. The film had dominated at the BFJA Award 1973 and went on to win seven awards. It was later remade in Hindi in 1982 as Ayaash starring Sanjeev Kumar, Arun Govil and Rati Agnihotri in lead roles.

Plot

Sitapati (Soumitra Chatterjee), a homeless youth, comes to landlord Madhav Dutta's (Uttam Kumar) house and gets a job as his cameraman. Sitapati discovers his former girlfriend Mrinmoyee (Arati Bhattacharya) is now Madhav Dutta's wife. Madhav's polygamy and Mirnmoyee's loneliness prompt her extramarital relationship with Sitapati. Baiji dance and alcoholism, love, betrayal, hatred - Sitapati's lens captures it all. Finally, Sitapati leaves the house, Mrinmoyee dies, and gradually Madhav learns about their relationship. Madhav cannot bear the fact that his wife has committed adultery. He goes to take revenge and shoots Sitapati who is already dead, then becomes mad and shoots himself. [4]

Cast

Soundtrack

Stree
Soundtrack album by
Nachiketa Ghosh
Released1972
Recorded1971
StudioBaby June Production
Genre Feature Film Soundtrack
Length0:16:01
Label SA RE GA MA
Producer Pradyat Kumar Basu
Nachiketa Ghosh chronology
Notun Diner Alo
(1972)		Stree
(1972)		 Agnibhramar
(1973)

All lyrics are written by Gauriprasanna Mazumder and Pulak Bandyopadhyay; all music is composed by Nachiketa Ghosh. The song Hazar Takar Jharbatita become huge hit.

Songs
No.TitleLyricsPlaybackLength
1."Khirki Theke Singhaduar"Pulak Bandyopadhyay Hemanta Mukherjee 3:30
2."Sakkhi Thakuk Jhorapata"Pulak BandyopadhyayHemanta Mukherjee3:17
3."Shokhi Kalo Amar Bhalo Lage Naa"Gauriprasanna Mazumder Manna Dey,
Hemanta Mukherjee		3:00
4."Jemon Shapini Ke Posh Manay Ojha" Manna Dey3:08
5."Hazaar Takar Jharbati Ta" Manna Dey,
Hemanta Mukherjee		3:24
Total length:16:19

Reception

The Times of India wrote "Stree, one of the finest works of Uttam Kumar, reminds us that icons like him are rare. Uttam Kumar stepped out of his romantic image and tried something just the opposite. A drunkard Bengali zamindar without any sense of chastity – he was unrecognizable in this negative character. Yet he bamboozled everyone with this persona. Even critics admitted only Uttam Kumar can do this. The Uttam-Soumitra movie remains a classic one and Uttam's dialogues still haunt us. [6] The film become blockbuster at the box office and ran for 24 weeks in the theaters.

Awards

BFJA Awards (1973) [7]

Remake

The film was remade in Hindi in 1982 as Ayaash directed and produced by Shakti Samanta and starring Sanjeev Kumar in lead.

References

  1. ↑ Stree , retrieved 2 August 2022
  2. ↑ "'Sanyasi Raja' - Bengali films that proved Uttam Kumar was not just a romantic matinee idol". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Stree". Gomolo. Archived from the original on 6 March 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Stree (1972) - IMDb". IMDb .
  5. ↑ "স্ত্রী (Film): Reviews, Ratings, Cast and Crew - Rate Your Music".
  6. ↑ "'Stree - Bengali films that proved Uttam Kumar was not just a romantic matinee idol". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL" . Retrieved 20 July 2023.[ dead link ]


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