Agradani is a Bengali social drama film directed and produced by Palash Bannerjee based on a same name story of Bengali novelist Tarashankar Bandopadhyay.[1] This film was released in 1983[2] under the banner of Palash Bandyopadhyay Productions.[3][4]
Plot
There are a particular class of Brahmins called Agradani, who are to be the chosen to perform the eating rituals on behalf of the dead. Punyo Chakraborty, a poor man belongs to the Agradani community lives with his family in a village. Local zamindar promises him to provide lands and money if Punyo lie down in front of the room where Zamindar's son is going to be born. In morning Punyo watches that zamindar's wife again gave birth to a dead child, soon he replaces the dead son with his new born baby. The baby grown ups as zamindar's son. Only Punyo knows that he is the biological father of the boy. One day a circumstances comes where he is forced to perform the funeral rituals for his own son.
Cast
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Punyo Chakraborty
- Anil Chatterjee as Zamindar
- Sandhya Roy
- Chhaya Devi
- Prasenjit Chatterjee
- Sumitra Mukherjee
- Bimal Deb
- Nimai Ghosh
References
- ^ Volume 1, Amaresh Datta (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 9788126018031. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ De, Mānnā (2007). Memories Come Alive: An Autobiography. Penguin Books India. p. 293. ISBN 9780143101932. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Agradani". Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ^ "Agradani (1983 - Bengali)". Retrieved 16 October 2018.
External links
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