Dui Purush (Two Generations) is a 1945 Bengali language epic family drama film directed by Subodh Mitra. Produced by New Theatres and adapted from Tarashankar Banerji's novel and popular stage play, it had screenplay by Binoy Chatterjee. The editing was done by Mitra, who was popularly known as Kachi Babu, and cited as one of the best editors in the film industry. Music director was Pankaj Mullick with lyrics by Sailen Roy. The cinematograpers were Sudhin Majumdar and Yusuf Mulji. The cast included Chhabi Biswas, Chandravati , Sunanda Banerjee, Ahindra Choudhury, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jahar Ganguly, Naresh Mitra.
The film won the National Film Award for Best Film. The film also won awards for Best Music for Pankaj Mullick, and Best Actress Award for Chandravati at the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Actress Award. It won five more awards at the 9th Annual BFJA Awards.
Dui Purush involves three generations, and has the traditional theme of a poor social worker pitted against a rich Zamindar (Landowner).
Synopsis
Nutubehari, called Nutu, is a poor but educated social worker who sticks to his life's ideals and fights against the wealthy Zamindar for people's rights. He falls in love with Kalyani, the Zamindar's daughter. The enraged Zamindar has Nutu put in jail. When he gets out of jail, he finds Kalyani has been married off to someone else. Nutu marries Bimla, and starts a school in the village. He and Bimla have a son called Arun. Kalyani's husband dies and her in-laws throw her out of the house along with her infant daughter. She comes back to the village and takes shelter with Nutubehari who lets her run the school.
, 1h51 Réalisé parSatyajit Ray OrigineInde GenresDrame, Comédie, Fantasy ActeursKali Banerjee, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jahar Ray, Santosh Dutta Note75% Paresh Chandra Dutt, un employé de banque de Calcutta, trouve par terre une petite pierre ronde. Pensant qu’il s’agit d’une bille, il la donne à son neveu. Lorsqu’il s’aperçoit que la pierre a en réalité le pouvoir de changer tous les métaux en or, il la lui rachète en échange de bonbons, et transforme en or quelques vieux boulets de canon. Le voilà soudain riche.
, 1h40 Réalisé parSatyajit Ray OrigineInde GenresDrame, Musical ThèmesLa musique, Musiques du monde, Musique ActeursChhabi Biswas, Beghum Akhtar, Roshan Kumari, Sardar Akhtar Note78% Inspiré du roman éponyme de Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay , le film est une étude détaillée et dramatique des derniers jours d’un zamindar (un propriétaire terrien semi-féodal du Bengale). Il raconte le déclin d’un aristocrate de la caste des zamindars, propriétaire terrien et mécène. Imbu de la noblesse de ses origines, il sacrifiera sa fortune et sa famille pour sa passion pour les arts en donnant des réceptions ruineuses dans son salon de musique.