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Nadi Theke Sagare (Bengali: নদী থেকে সাগরে) (transl. From river to ocean) is a 1978 Bengali feature film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. The film was written by Prasanta Chowdhury. The screenplay was written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. It revolves around a prostitute who struggles to get her daughter married to a decent man. It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar. Debashree Roy was credited as Rumki Roy in the film. The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.
This is the film where Debashree Roy, for the first time played a leading role. It was the first film where Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy collaborated together. She played Champa, the unfathered daughter of Sohagi played by Sandhya Roy, and had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given. She drew critical favour for her gaze in the film. Soumitra Chatterjee and Ajitesh Banerjee won critical favour for their performance in the film. The film was a major success at box office.




Plot



Sohagi is a prostitute who attempts to commit suicide as she has been deceived by a man whom she loved. She is saved by Shyamapada who is a priest. She returns to Basak Lane where she works as a prostitute. She gives birth to a daughter named Champa. When Champa grows up, her mother Kusum insists that she be a prostitute just like Sohagi but she refuses her mother's proposal stating that she wants Champa to marry Sagar.




Cast


Soumitra Chatterjee as Shyamapada
Sandhya Roy as Sohagi
Debashree Roy as Champa: Sohagi's daughter
Mithun Chakraborty as Sagar
Chhaya Devi as Bhabadasi
Shamita Biswas as Kusumdasi
Gita Dey
Sulata Chowdhury
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
Rabi Ghosh
Anup Kumar
Mrinal Mukherjee
Ajit Chatterjee




References






External links


Nadi Theke Sagare at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mithun Chakraborty
• Nadi Theke Sagare
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Debashree Roy
• Debashree Roy filmography
• Hemant Kumar
• Mithun Chakraborty filmography
• Arabinda Mukhopadhyay
• Soumitra Chatterjee filmography
• Chhaya Devi
• List of films: N–O