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Chokher Bali is a Bengali drama film directed by Satu Sen based on the same name novel of Rabindranath Tagore. This film was released on 30 July 1938 under the banner of Associated Producers. This is the first film adaptation of Chokher Bali.




Plot


This movie revolves around an extramarital affair between a young widow, Binodini, and Mahendra. Mahendra's wife Ashalata is a good friend of Binodini. For her feelings of love and affection, Binodini comes to stay with Mahendra's family. Behari, Mahendra's best childhood friend also gets mentally involves with Binodini.




Cast


Chhabi Biswas as Bihari
Rama Banerjee as Annapurna
Manoranjan Bhattacharya as Sadhucharan
Haren Mukherjee as Mahendra
Suprava Mukherjee as Binodini
Santilata Ghosh as Rajlakshmi
Indira Roy as Ashalata
Atri Guha Thakurta
Sibkali Chatterjee




Reaction of Tagore


Rabindranath himself watched the movie while staying at Jorasanko and later he wrote a letter on 4 August 1938 from Santiniketan that:

while staying in Calcutta I had the opportunity to see the ''cinema -natya'' Chokher Bali in the Jorasanko House. I was especially satisfied with the praiseworthy acting skill. The way the actors were able to express the tremendous inner conflict of the hero-heroines leading to an exciting document speaks of real credit on their part...




References






External links


Chokher Bali at IMDb

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• Chokher Bali
• Chokher Bali (1938 film)
• Chokher Bali (novel)
• Bipin Gupta
• Adaptations of works of Rabindranath Tagore in film and television
• List of films: C
• Gora (film)
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Actor Award
• List of works by Rabindranath Tagore