Kedar Gouri
Directed byNitai Palit
Written byManaranjan Das
Produced byBalaram Das
StarringGour Ghose
Gloria Mohanty
Kishori Debi
Nitai Palit
Beena Palit
Dhira Biswal
Music byBalakrushna Das
Production
company
Radha Pictures
Distributed byPancha Sakha Films
Release date
  • 25 September 1954 (1954-09-25)
Running time
176 min
CountryIndia
LanguageOdia

Kedar Gouri (1954) is an Oriya film directed by Nitai Palit.[1][2][3] The film is adapted from Radhanath Rai's poem by the same name.[4]

Synopsis

Kedar and Gouri have been deeply fond of each other since childhood. Kedar's father and Gouri's father are village heads and have a rivalry between them. As both Kedar and Gouri grow, their fondness transfers into intense and enduring love. But their families do not allow them to meet each other and place a barrier between them. Once Kedar in disguise tries to attend Gouri's birthday function. He is found out, humiliated and thrown out by Gouri's father. Now it is impossible for the lovers to meet as their families tighten the security for both of them. The lovers have no other option and elope from their home. While they venture in the jungle, Gauri feels very thirsty. Kedar goes to a nearby spring to bring water. When Kedar returns with water, he cannot find Gouri anywhere around. He tires in search of Gouri's whereabouts. In the meantime, he hears a tiger's rumble suddenly at some distance away. He, in panic, searches for Gouri. On the way he finds the blood stained clothes of Gouri. Kedar is now sure that Gouri has been eaten by the tiger. In an anguish and frustration, Kedar stabs himself repeatedly until he is dead. But to the contrary, Gouri is safely hidden in some brush away from the scene. She comes back to the scene after the tiger disappears. Her heart breaks when she finds Kedar died for her sake. Gauri feels she cannot live without Kedar and follows suit. Thus the lovers bring an end to their lives for each to imprint a sublime love story.

Cast

Soundtrack

  1. "Kehi Ki Dekhichha Palli Ma Ra Hasa Ra"
  2. "Rama Je Laikhana Ho Gale Mruga Mari"

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Box office

Despite good acting and cinematography, the film flopped. The masses could not digest a tragic love story of this genre.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Oriya Film Industry". Welcome To Orissa. www.welcomeorissa.com. Archived from the original on 23 December 2008.
  2. ↑ "List Of Odia Movies - 1936 to 2013". Nuaodisha.com.
  3. ↑ "Released by Year » Year 1954". Odia Movie Database. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema (p-1985). Routledge, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1135943257.
  5. ↑ "Songs of Kedar Gauri". OdiaHits.com.
  6. ↑ S. Patnaik, 1982. Cuttack Review of Literature, Criticiscm & Ideas (p 17). The University of California.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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