Datta is a Bengali 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.
Plot[edit | edit source]
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.
1951 version[1][2][3] 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!
Director[edit | edit source]
Saumyen Mukhopadhyay (Mukherji)
Music director[edit | edit source]
Timir Baran (Bhattacharya),Dwijen Chowdhury
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Sunanda Banerjee as Bijoya
- Purnendu Mukherjee as Naren
- Ahindra Choudhury as Rashbehari
- Jahar Ganguly as Bilas
- Anubha Gupta
- Kali Sarkar
- Sukhen Das
This version is faithful to Saratchandra's text.
1976 version[4][5][6] This version is indexed in IMDb as Datta (I) (1976). This film has major deviations from Saratchandra's novel.
Director[edit | edit source]
Music director[edit | edit source]
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Naren.
- Suchitra Sen as Bijoya
- Samit Bhanja as Bilas
- Utpal Dutt as Rasbihari
- Gita De
- Sumitra Mukherjee as Nalini
- Shailen Mukherjee
- Dilip Bose