Ekhane Pinjar
1971 Bengali film
Ekhane Pinjar is a Bengali crime drama film directed by Tarun Majumder (Yatrik) based on the novel of Prafulla Roy. The film was released on 22 January 1971 under the banner of Mitali Films. The music director of this film was Bhupen Hazarika. For this film, Uttam Kumar won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association, Best Actor Award (BFJA) in 1972. A Hindi remake of the film Atithee was made in 1978.
01Plot
Writer Amal Basu befriended with Nabendu, a youth driven to petty smuggling by poverty. Nabendu begs Amal for help finding honest work, but Amal can not find any job for him. Desperate Nabendu returns to crime and died in a police encounter. Amal travels to Nabendu’s ancestral village to deliver the news where he realises that Nabendu's family living in a poor condition. Local influential man Abinash Mitra tries to capture their property. Nabendu’s sister, Neela also involves in dangerous smuggling gang to save her faimily from starving. Amal stays their to support the family and he feels that Neela has been trapped by Abinash Mitra.
02Cast
- Uttam Kumar as Amal Basu
- Aparna Sen as Neela
- Gangapada Basu as Abinash Mitra
- Dilip Mukherjee as Nabendu
- Bhanu Bannerjee
- Jahor Roy
- Gyanesh Mukherjee
- Ratna Ghoshal
- Tarun Kumar
- Kalyan Chatterjee
- Parijat Bose
Sources and credits
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