Bipasha (film)

Bipasha
Directed byAgradoot
Written byTarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Screenplay byGouriprasanna Majumder (Lyrics also) and Hindi Dialogues - Pandit Bhusan
Based onBipasha novel by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
StarringUttam Kumar
Suchitra Sen
CinematographyBijoy Ghosh, Bibhuti Laha
Edited byBaidyanath Chatterjee
Music byRobin Chatterjee
Production
company
Chitra Prayojok
Distributed byChandimata Films Private Limited
Release date
  • 1 January 1962 (1962-01-01)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Bipasha is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language drama film starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.[1][2] and directed by Agradoot.[3] The film is based on a novel titled Bipasha by Sri Tarashankar Bandyopadhay.The story fleetingly describes the horror of riots in West Pakistan during the time of Partition of India.[4] Bipasa was described as a victim of that riot in the film. However, the film deviates from the original novel and avoids describing Bipasha as a gang rape victim by Pakistani Islamist rioters.

It is one of the many hit films in which Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen worked as a pair. The other cast members included Chhabi Biswas, Chhaya Devi, Pahari Sanyal, Jiben Bose and Tulsi Chakrabarti.[5]

  1. ^ staff. "Bipasha (1962)". Nth Wall. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Bipasha (1962)". Gomolo. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  3. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha; Paul Willemen; Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-135-94318-9.
  4. ^ Vidhi Doshi; Nisar Mehdi (14 August 2017). "70 years later, survivors recall the horrors of India-Pakistan partition". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  5. ^ "Movies of Uttam Kumar & Tulsi Chakraborty". www.golomolo.com. Retrieved 23 October 2014.