Bhai Bhai (1956 Odia film)

Bhai Bhai is a 1956 Oriya film produced by Gour Prasad Ghose and directed by Nitai Palit.[2] [3][4][5][6][7] The film was inspired by a book, Bhai Bhai, written by Santanu Kumar Das. It was produced under the banner of Dalit Jatisangha Chitram, and received financial assistance from the Government of Orissa, India.[8] It portrays the problems of untouchability and the caste system prevailing at that time in rural India.[9]

Bhai Bhai
Directed byNitai Palit
Written bySantanu Kumar Das
Produced byGour Prasad Ghose[1]
StarringGour Prasad Ghose
Parbati Ghose
Samuel Sahu
Gopal Banerjee
Hemant Das
CinematographyDenen Gupta
Edited byBiswanath Nayak
Music byBalakrishna Das
Bhubaneswar Misra
Production
company
Dalit Jatisangha Chitram
Release date
  • 21 June 1956 (1956-06-21)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageOdia

The film starred Parbati Ghose, the first female filmmaker from Odisha[1]

Synopsis

In a village there are two sections of people leaving nearby. The upper cast people belongs to the Pradhans and the lower caste belongs to the Bauris. The Pradhan community are influential and landlords. The Bauri community are cultivation labourers, they work in the lands of the Pradhans. Bauris are treated as untouchable. Suduria is head of the village and is of upper caste. He is broad-minded and does not believe in untouchability. He has a soft corner for one Nidhi, who belongs to the Bauri caste. Nidhi calls Suduria affectionately as brother. Bana, who is from the Pradhan community, does not accept the daring of one of lower community to maintain a relationship with one of the upper caste. He calls a meeting in the village and asks for punishment to Nidhi for maintaining a relationship with one of the upper caste. The village people decide to punish Nidhi for his crime and bar him from working on the land and taking water from the pond. Though Suduria is against the decision, he remains silent against the voice of the Pradhan community. The lower caste Bauri community feels harassed by the decision and decides not to work in the field of the Pradhan community. Without labourers, the cultivation work has got stopped and the land becomes barren. At last, the Pradhan community realises their fault and accepts the relationship of Suduria and Nidhi.

Cast
  • Gour Prasad Ghose
  • Gopal Banarjee
  • Parbati Ghose (Chapala Nayak)
  • Sahu Samuel
  • Beena Palit
  • Hemanta Das
  • Lila Dulali

Box office

The film was not accepted by the public and ultimately flopped.[10]

Soundtrack
  1. "Kehi Ki Dekhichha Palli Ma Ra Hasa Ra"[11]
  2. "Rama Je Laikhana Ho Gale Mruga Mari"[11]

References
  1. "Parbati Ghose, Odisha's first female filmmaker, passes away". The Hindu. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  2. "GourParbati". GPGenterprise.com.
  3. "Released by Year ยป Year 1956". Odia Movie Database. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015.
  4. "Bhai Bhai". IncredibleOrissa.
  5. Sambit Prakash Dash. Orissa reference: glimpses of Orissa (p-149). TechnoCAD Systems, 2001.
  6. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema (p-169). Routledge, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1135943257.
  7. "List Of Odia Movies - 1936 to 2013". nuaodisha.com.
  8. Orissa Legislative Assembly. Debates, Part 1, Volume 1, Issues 15-29 (p-25). Government of Orissa, 1961.
  9. K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake. Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (p-65). Routledge, United Kingdom.
  10. Cuttack Review of Literature, Criticiscm & Ideas (p-17). S. Patnaik, 1982.
  11. "Songs of Bhai Bhai". OdiaHits.com.


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