Bicharak
Directed byPrabhat Mukherjee
Written byTarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Screenplay byPrabhat Mukherjee
Based onBicharak novel by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Produced byArundhati Devi
StarringUttam Kumar
Arundhati Devi
Chhabi Biswas
CinematographyAjoy Mitra
Edited byHaridas Mahalanbish
Music byRabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya
Production
company
Prabhat Production
Distributed byShreebishnu Pictures Private Limited
Release date
1959
Running time
121 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Bicharak (English: The Judge) is a Bengali psychological drama film directed by Pravat Mukhopadhyay and produced by Arundhati Devi based on a same name novel of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and music is composed by Timir Bhattachariya[1][2] This film was released in 1959[3] under the banner of Prabhat Productions and received National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1960.[4] The film starred Uttam Kumar and Arundhati Mukherjee in lead role and others like Chhabi Biswas, Pahadi Sanyal and Chandrabati Devi in important supporting role. The film showed Uttam Kumar one of the best performance ever as a Judge. This is also remembered as one of the best film in his career and best ever in Bengali Cinema history.[5] The film also received huge critically acclaimed and saw the commercial success.

Plot

The plot unfolds with a series of flashbacks which reveals a judge's past and hidden secrets. Gyanendra, a judge lives with his wife Sarama. Being the Judge, with every trial of similar cases he remembers his past, the truth about his questionable actions. Gyanendra always recalls when he was a popular lawyer, married to Sumoti, a suspicious and rude lady. But he had a weak feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day Gyanendra's house was burnt and his first wife Sumoti dies. Gyanendra could not make any attempt to save her, perhaps he was unable bear Sumati further. Thereafter he marries Sarama and becomes a judge, but realizes his crime and the past haunts him much.

Cast

Soundtrack

Bicharak
Soundtrack album by
Rabindranath Tagore
Released1959
Recorded1958
StudioPrabhat Productions Pvt Ltd
Length0:06:44
LabelAngel Digital Pvt Ltd
ProducerPrabhat Mukherjee, Arundhati Devi

All lyrics are written by Rabindranath Tagore; all music is composed by Rabindranath Tagore

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Amar Mallika Bone"Utpala Sen2:54
2."Amar Bichar Tumi Karo"Hemant Kumar1:27
Total length:4:21

Award

References

  1. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar. "Bicharak". Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Bicharak-Bengali Movie". Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "Aspects of Film Festival". Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hindi TV Serials 7th National Film Awards". nettv4u.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Once Upon a Cinema: Uttam Kumar's Last Bow". Firstpost. 24 July 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.


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