Drishtidan

Drishtidan
Directed byNitin Bose
Written byRabindranath Tagore
Screenplay bySajanikanta Das
(Dialogues)
Based onDrishtidan by Rabindranath Tagore
Produced bySunanda Bannerjee
StarringAsit Baran
Sunanda Bannerjee
Krishnachandra Dey
Chhabi Biswas
Ketaki Dutta
Uttam Kumar
Sandhyarani
CinematographyRadhu Karmakar
Edited byKali Raha
Music byRabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya
Production
company
S.B Production
Release date
  • 31 December 1948 (1948-12-31)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Drishtidan (Bengali: দৃষ্টিদান, Donating Eyes ) (1948) is an Indian Bengali feature film directed by Nitin Bose. Based on Rabindranth Tagore's story of the same name, the film narrates the evolving relationship of a blind woman with her husband.[1] Legendary actor Uttam Kumar debuted in this film, later who become one of the greatest actor of the Indian Cinema history and most popular and successful film star in the Bengali Cinema history. In this film Kumar played as a child artist of the hero Asit Baran's role.[2] Kumar worked in this film as his birth name Arun Kumar Chatterjee. The film became a flop at the box office[3]

  1. ^ "1948 - Drishtidan.pdf". docs.google.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Star struck for Uttam? - Times Of India". 11 August 2011. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Uttam Kumar: 'ফ্লপ মাস্টার' টিটকিরিতে অভিনয় ছেড়ে দিতে চেয়েছিলেন উত্তম". Aaj Tak বাংলা (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2023.