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]

Nadi Theke Sagare
Poster of the film
Directed byArabinda Mukhopadhyay
Screenplay by
Story byPrasanta Chowdhury
Produced bySitalamata Pictures[1]
Starring
Edited bySubodh Ray
Music byHemanta Mukherjee
Release date
  • 4 August 1978 (1978-08-04)
[3]
Running time
135 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

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
Roy was critically appreciated for her gaze in the film. She had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given. A perfectionist, director Arabinda Mukhopadhyay wanted her gaze to be mature enough for the adult role while practically, she was not an adult at that time. To shed off her juvenile, impulsive look, He instructed her not to undergo any conversation or any kind of playful activity for a long time before shooting.[20]

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

References
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  19. "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.
  20. 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.


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