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{{Infobox film
| name = Saheb Bibi Golam (Film)
| image = File:Saheb Bibi Golam poster.jpg
| director = Kartik Chatterjee
| producer = Sarkar Productions<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gomolo.com/saheb-bibi-golam-movie/13599|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956)|website=gomolo.com|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>
| writer =
| based_on = ''[[Saheb Bibi Golam]]'' by [[Bimal Mitra]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/?url=http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/94492512-saheb-bibi-golam-1956-king-queen-knave-uttam-kumar-sumitra-devi-old-kolkata-bengali#2882|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956) - King, Queen, Knave: Uttam Kumar - Sumitra Devi Old Kolkata Bengali Classic Movie by Kartik Chatterjee {{!}} WBRi {{!}} Washington Bangla Radio on internet|website=Washington Bangla Radio on internet|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>
| starring = [[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]]<br />[[Uttam Kumar]]<br />[[Chhabi Biswas]]<br/>[[Pahari Sanyal]]<br />[[Chhaya Devi]]
| music = Rabin Chattopadhyay
| cinematography =
| editing =
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1956|ref1=<ref>{{Citation|title=Saheb Bibi Golam|url=http://www.filmweb.pl/film/Saheb+Bibi+Golam-1956-304680|language=pl|accessdate=2017-10-20}}</ref>}}
| runtime =
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
}}

'''''Saheb Bibi Golam''''' is a 1956 [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] directed by Kartik Chatterjee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/saheb-bibi-golam-35674|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956) - Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/IDA/info|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956)|website=Indiancine.ma|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmiclub.com/movie/saheb-bibi-golam-1956-bengali-movie|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956)|website=FilmiClub|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> It is based on a Bengali novelist [[Bimal Mitra]]'s 1953 [[Saheb Bibi Golam|novel of the same name]]. The film explores the tragic fall of [[Indian feudalism|feudalism]] in [[Bengal]] during the [[British Raj]]. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic relationship between a beautiful, forlorn wife of an aristocrat and a career-driven clerk. The film stars [[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]], [[Uttam Kumar]], [[Chhabi Biswas]], [[Pahari Sanyal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bharat-movies.com/bengali/info/saheb-bibi-golam.htm|title=Saheb Bibi Golam. Saheb Bibi Golam Movie Cast & Crew.|website=bharat-movies.com|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviebuff.com/saheb-bibi-golam|title=Saheb Bibi Golam on Moviebuff.com|website=www.moviebuff.com|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>

The film is considered as one of Best [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali films]] ever made.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofindia.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/bengali-classics-and-their-notable-hindi-remakes/photostory/63646411.cms|title=Bengali classics and their notable Hindi remakes {{!}} The Times of India|website=www.timesofindia.com|access-date=2018-05-06}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film opens at the ruins of an old [[haveli]] in Calcutta, where a group of labourers are busy pulling down what remains. When the workers break off for lunch, the overseer ([[Uttam Kumar]]) wanders through the mansion. As he sits at a place there begins a flashback to the end of the 19th century.

[[File:Sumitra Devi in Saheb Bibi Golam (1956).jpg|right|thumb|[[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]] in the song sequence ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnQhUeV9cg/ Koto Sadhanay Peyechi Tomay]'']]
The lower-class and educated Bhutnath arrives in colonial Calcutta looking for work. He is granted to stay in the grand mansion of an aristocratic family. He works at the Mohini Sindoor factory run by Subinay Babu ([[Pahari Sanyal]]), a dedicated member of the [[Brahmo Samaj]]. Subinay Babu's daughter Jaba (Anubha Gupta) is amused by Bhutnath whom she considers an unsophisticated rustic. Bhutnath becomes fascinated with the goings-on in the mansion and every night observes the decadent lifestyle of the Choudhury brothers.

One night the servant, Bansi (Kanu Banerjee), takes Bhutnath to meet the younger landlord's beautiful wife Pateshwari ([[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]]) who implores him to bring her Mohini Sindoor believing it will keep her unfaithful husband home. Bhutnath is struck by her beauty and sadness and inadvertently becomes Pateshwari's secret confidante. A bomb explodes in the marketplace and Bhutnath is injured in the ensuing crossfire between freedom fighters and British soldiers. Jaba looks after him.

[[Image:Sumitra-devi-1956.jpg|right|thumb|Pateswari ([[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]]) becomes a desperate alcoholic to make her husband stay at home, in ''Saheb Bibi Golam'']]

Pateshwari's repeated attempts to appease her husband fail until she becomes his drinking companion to keep him by her side. Jaba's marriage is finalised with Supavitra (a member of Bramho Samaj) but after her father's death she declined the marriage. Bhutnath becomes a trainee architect and goes away to work on a training project. After his return he find the mansion in partial ruins. Pateshwari is now a desperate alcoholic and her husband, paralysed. Meanwhile, he learns that he and Jaba were betrothed as children. One night Pateshwari asks Bhutnath to accompany her to a nearby shrine to pray for her ailing husband. Their plan to go to the shrine is informed to the elder landlord ([[Chhabi Biswas]]), who suspects that Pateshwari is having an affair with Bhutnath. He orders his henchmen to chase them. As Bhutnath and Pateshwari travel in the carriage, it is stopped by the henchmen. Bhuthnath is knocked unconscious and Pateshwari is abducted. When he wakes up in hospital, Bhutnath is informed that Pateshwari has disappeared and the younger landlord is dead. The flashback ends.

Bhutnath's workers inform him that a skeleton is found buried in the ruins of the mansion. From the bangles around the hand of the corpse, Bhutnath realises it is the remains of Pateshwari.

==Cast==
*[[Sumitra Devi (actress)|Sumitra Devi]] as Choto Bou Rani<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/saheb-bibi-golam-35674/cast-crew|title=Saheb Bibi Golam (1956) - Full Cast and Crew {{!}} Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
*[[Uttam Kumar]] as Bhutnath<ref name=":0" />
*[[Chhabi Biswas]] as Mejo Babu<ref name=":0" />
*Nitish Mukherjee as Choto Babu<ref name=":0" />
*[[Chhaya Devi]] as Boro Bou Rani<ref name=":0" />
*Padma Devi as Mejo Bou Rani<ref name=":0" />
*[[Pahari Sanyal]] as Subinay Babu<ref name=":0" />
*Anubha Gupta as Jaba<ref name=":0" />
*[[Jahar Ganguly]]<ref name=":0" />
*[[Bhanu Banerjee]]<ref name=":0" />
*[[Kanu Banerjee]] as Bongshi<ref name=":0" />
*Haridhan Banerjee<ref name=":0" />
*[[Nabadwip Haldar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354796/|title=Nabadwip Halder|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049708/ Saheb Bibi Golam]'' on [https://www.imdb.com/ IMDB]
*''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvscgCTWGY/ Saheb Bibi Golam]'' on [https://www.youtube.com/ YouTube]

[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1950s Bengali-language films]]

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