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Chowronghee (Bengali: চৌরঙ্গী) is a 1968 Indian Bengali drama film by Pinaki Bhushan Mukherjee, starring Uttam Kumar and Subhendu Chatterjee who played the lead role and Biswajit Chatterjee Supriya Devi and Anjana Bhowmick in supporting role. The music of the film composed by Ashima Bhattachariya who also produced this film. The film is based on of the most popular and best-selling Bengali novel[1] of the same name by Shankar and was a huge hit in its own right. The film is regarded as one of the greatest film in Bengali cinema and for Uttam's career.

Chowronghee
Directed byPinaki Bhushan Mukherjee
Written byMani Shankar Mukherjee
Screenplay byAmal Sarkar
Based onChowringhee By Mani Shankar Mukherjee
Produced byAshima Bhattachariya
StarringUttam Kumar
Supriya Devi
Utpal Dutt
Biswajit
CinematographyDinen Gupta
Edited byKali Raha
Music byAshima Bhattacharjee
Rabindranath Tagore
Production
company
Pompy Films
Distributed byPompy Films
Release date
30 September 1968
Running time
141 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Plot


The movie revolves around the experiences of the characters the author Shankar meets while working at one of the largest and most reputed hotels of Kolkata, Hotel Shahjahan. At the end of the movie, most of the characters experience tragedy, in one form or another.

The major characters Shankar encounters with are:


Cast



Soundtrack


Chowringhee
Soundtrack album by
Ashima Bhattachariya
Released1968
Recorded1967
StudioPompy Films
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length0:10:15
LabelAngel Digital Pvt Ltd
ProducerAshima Bhattachariya
Ashima Bhattachariya chronology
Chowringhee
(1968)
Memsaheb
(1972)

All lyrics are written by Rabindranath Tagore & Miltu Ghosh; all music is composed by Ashima Bhattachariya & Rabindranath Tagore. Every song become huge popular and contribute lot of film success.

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Baro Eka Lage"Manna Dey3:37
2."Ei Kothati Mone Rekho"Pratima Banerjee3:27
3."Kache Robe"Hemanta Mukherjee3:11
Total length:10:15

Production


The film is based on Mani Shankar Mukherjee's novel Chowronghee. Pinaki Bhusan Mukherjee directed the film, with music composed and also produced by Ashima Bhattachariya.

Film production started during 1967–1968. For the film shooting, staff were booked to the Grand Hotel of Kolkata. The film shooted in Grand Hotel and Technicians Studio, both place. There is two main protagonists Sata Bose the character played by Uttam, and a writer Shankar played by Subhendu Chatterjee. During the starting of the shooting Subhendu had scheduling problems because he was attending in the Frankfurt Festival for his film Panchashwaar. Then he contacted Uttam to pause filming. Then Uttam requested to the producer and director to start filming a few days later.[2]


Reception


Released in Durga Puja occasion in 1968 the film generally became superhit and ran for 112 days in theater. Film become huge popular and received huge acclaim like novel, but novel and the film both did not receive any awards, and also Uttam never got any awards for his outstanding performance in the film.[3] The film earned the cult status.


Award


Bengal Film Journalists Association Award

Remakes


National Award winner director Srijit Mukherjee made a film based on this in 2019, Shahjahan Regency.[4]


References


  1. "Chowringhee". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 1 April 2007. Archived from the original on 9 July 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
  2. "পড়েছিলেন ডাক্তারি, হয়ে গেলেন নায়ক!". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  3. "আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা - মুখোমুখি". archives.anandabazar.com. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  4. "What Srijit Mukherji thinks about the 1968 cult classic 'Chowringhee'? - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 April 2022.





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