Nadi Theke Sagare
Nadi Theke Sagare (Bengali: নদী থেকে সাগরে) (transl. From river to ocean) is a 1978 Bengali feature film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[4] The film was written by Prasanta Chowdhury.[5] The screenplay was written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[6][7] It revolves around a prostitute who struggles to get her daughter married to a decent man.[8] It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar.[9][10][11][12] Debashree Roy was credited as Rumki Roy in the film.[6] The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[13]
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Directed by | Arabinda Mukhopadhyay |
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Story by | Prasanta Chowdhury |
Produced by | Sitalamata Pictures[1] |
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Edited by | Subodh Ray |
Music by | Hemanta Mukherjee |
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Running time | 135 min. |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
This is the film where Debashree Roy, for the first time played a leading role.[14] It was the first film where Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy collaborated together.[15] She played Champa, the unfathered daughter of Sohagi played by Sandhya Roy, and had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given.[16] She drew critical favour for her gaze in the film. Soumitra Chatterjee and Ajitesh Banerjee won critical favour for their performance in the film.[17] The film was a major success at box office.[18][19]
Plot
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Sohagi is a prostitute who attempts to commit suicide as she has been deceived by a man whom she loved. She is saved by Shyamapada who is a priest. She returns to Basak Lane where she works as a prostitute. She gives birth to daughter named Champa. When Champa grows up, her mother Kusum insists that she be a prostitute just like Sohagi but she refuses her mother's proposal stating that she wants Champa to get married to Sagar.
Cast
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Shyamapada
- Sandhya Roy as Sohagi
- Debashree Roy as Champa, Sohagi's daughter
- Mithun Chakraborty as Sagar
- Chhaya Devi as Bhabadasi
- Shamita Biswas as Kusumdasi
- Gita Dey
- Sulata Chowdhury
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Rabi Ghosh
- Anup Kumar
- Mrinal Mukherjee
- Ajit Chatterjee
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- "Arabinda Mukherjee, director of timeless Bengali flicks Mouchak, Dhanyee Meye, dies". NEWSMEN. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Mithun Chakraborty's next movie announced, actor all set to reunite with yesteryear heroine". The Times of India. 17 October 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- Dissanayake, Wimal (1993). "The concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic". In Dissanayake, Wimal (ed.). Melodrama and Asian Cinema. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41465-4. Retrieved 25 March 2019.