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CHANDRASEKHAR
(14/11/47) |
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Released at
Lighthouse, Uttara, Ujjala |
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Producer :
Pioneer Pictures
Story : Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
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Produced By :
Nepal Datta // Mrinal Datta
Direction : Debakikumar Bose |
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Camera :
Ajoy Kar // Deojibhai Padhiar // Bidyapati Ghosh
Sound : Gour
Das |
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Assistant
Cameraman :
Bishu Chakraborty // Bimal Mukherjee |
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Assistant Sound
Technician :
Siddhi Nag
Music : Kamal Dasgupta |
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Lyrics :
Subodh Purkayastha Assistant Music Director : Nitai Ghatak |
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Art Director :
Biren Nag
Editor : Baidyanath Banerjee // Ajit Das |
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Assistant
Director :
Bijolibaran Sen // Amit Maitra // Probodh Bose |
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Kamal Maitra // Baidyanath Majumdar |
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Kanakbaran Sen // Satish Nigam |
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Production
Assistant :
Robin Banerjee // Sudhir Chatterjee |
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Distributor :
Deluxe Film Distributor |
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Shot at Indrapuri
Studio |
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Cast
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KANAN
..Shaibalini |
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Ashok Kumar
.Pratap |
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Chhabi Biswas
...Chandrasekhar |
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Bharati Debi
..Dalni
Begum |
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Nitish Mukherjee
Nawab Mir Qashim |
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Ajoorie //
Rajlakshmi Debi //
Geetasree |
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Hans Glass //
Krishnadhan Mukherjee |
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Mr. Malcolm //
Gokul Mukherjee |
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Miss Ashoka
.Shaibalini
(child) |
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Anup Kumar
...Pratap (child) |
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Amar Mallick
.Mohammad
Taqi Khan |
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Songs of KANAN
:
1)Megaphone-JNG 10047-ANADI KALER SROTEY
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BHASA-OMC 22737
and BHASIYE DILEM
MALA-OMC 22736 |
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(Both duets with
Ashok Kumar). |
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The film was a
major hit in both the versions and rehabilitated
KANAN, |
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whose then
fluctuating film fortunes took a turn for better days. The film |
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ran to packed
houses for several months. |
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It was described
as a glamorous movie with Ashok Kumar from Bombay |
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coming to
Calcutta for the first time for his first Bengali film.
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KANANs
fee for this film was Rupees one more than that of hero Ashok Kumar. |
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However, the
film faced severe criticism for changing the basics in the story |
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line. In fact
the then censor board ruled that for classic literature arbitary |
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changes would
not be allowed and ultimately director Debaki Kumar Bose |
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had to apologize
publicly for having offended the feelings of the public in
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general and
Bankim Chandras descendants in particular. |
