Saat Pake Bandha

1963 Indian film in Bengali

1963 (1963)

Running time

125 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageBengali

Saat Pake Bandha is a Bengali romantic film starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Suchitra Sen, Pahari Sanyal and Tarun Kumar. Directed by Ajoy Kar, it was a box office success upon its release. The movie was remade in 1963 in Telugu as Vivaha Bandham, in 1974 in Hindi as Kora Kagaz and in Tamil as Lalitha in 1976.^[1]

Plot

Professor Sukhendu Dutta (Soumitra Chatterjee), a well-educated poor orphan, who lives with his aunt in a small apartment in Kolkata. Along with the regular job in the university, he also earns his living by private tuition. He met Archana Bose (Dutta) (Suchitra Sen), a well-educated woman of rich family background in a private party thrown in honour of a student of Sukhendu. After that, they fell in love and got married. Archana's mother was not happy with the marriage from the beginning, considering the poor income of Sukhendu. Eventually her too much interference in the married life of Sukhendu and Archana led to a mutual separation.

Cast

Soumitra Chatterjee as Sukhendu Dutta
Suchitra Sen as Archana Basu
Pahari Sanyal as Archana's Father
Chhaya Devi as Archana's Mother
Molina Devi as Sukhendu's Aunt

Awards

Moscow International Film Festival

Silver Prize for Best Actress: Suchitra Sen
- 11th National Film Awards – Saat Pake Bandha received a Certificate of Merit for 2nd best film in Bengali^[2]

References

^ "10 Old and Gold Bengali Movies Which Inspired Bollywood to Remake". 25 July 2016.
^ "11th National Film Awards". Directorate of Film Festivals. Government of India. Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.