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'''''Datta''''' is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[Romantic Drama film|romantic drama film]] based on the novel with the same name written by [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]. It was first made in 1951 and again in 1976.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Bijoya's father Banamali had informally engaged her to Naren, the son of his friend Jagdish. But Bijoya is attracted to Bilaas, son of another friend of Banamali. She has some hearsay knowledge about Naren and develops a negative image of Naren in her mind. But when she meets Naren, who is a doctor by profession the scenario starts changing. She starts to love Naren and realises that her conception about Naren is all wrong.<br />
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'''1951 version'''<ref>YouTube - duration 2:07:45</ref><ref>Datta (1951) in Moviebuff</ref><ref>IMDb Datta (II) (1976)</ref><br />
This film is wrongly indexed in IMDb as Datta (II) (1976) instead of Datta (1951).YouTube does not give the year but names [[Ahindra Choudhury]] as a star in this movie. IMDb apparently finds no difficulty in having Ahindra, who died in 1974, resurrecting himself to act in a 1976 movie!<br />
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==Director==<br />
Saumyen Mukhopadhyay (Mukherji) <br />
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==Music director==<br />
Timir Baran (Bhattacharya),Dwijen Chowdhury<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* Sunanda Banerjee as Bijoya<br />
* [[Purnendu Mukherjee]] as Naren<br />
* [[Ahindra Choudhury]] as Rashbehari<br />
* [[Jahar Ganguly]] as Bilas<br />
* [[Anubha Gupta]]<br />
* Kali Sarkar<br />
* [[Sukhen Das]] <br />
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This version is faithful to Saratchandra's text.<br />
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'''1976 version'''<ref>YouTube - duration 2:17:16</ref><ref>Datta (1976) in Moviebuff</ref><ref>IMDb Datta (I)(1976)</ref><br />
This version is indexed in IMDb as Datta (I) (1976). This film has major deviations from Saratchandra's novel.<br />
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==Director==<br />
[[Ajoy Kar]]<br />
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==Music director==<br />
[[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Soumitra Chatterjee]] as Naren.<br />
* [[Suchitra Sen]] as Bijoya<br />
* [[Samit Bhanja]] as Bilas<br />
* [[Utpal Dutt]] as Rasbihari<br />
* [[Gita Dey|Gita De]]<br />
* Sumitra Mukherjee as Nalini<br />
* Shailen Mukherjee<br />
* Dilip Bose<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0231428}}<br />
[[Category:1951 films]]<br />
[[Category:1976 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:1970s Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on works by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]<br />
[[Category:Indian drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
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