Nadi Theke Sagare

Nadi Theke Sagare
Poster of the film
Directed byArabinda Mukhopadhyay
Screenplay by
Story byPrasanta Chowdhury
Produced bySitalamata Pictures[2]
Starring
Edited bySubodh Ray
Music byHemanta Mukherjee
Release date
  • 4 August 1978 (1978-08-04)
[1]
Running time
135 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Nadi Theke Sagare (Bengali: নদী থেকে সাগরে) (transl. From river to ocean) is a 1978 Bengali feature film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[4] The film was written by Prasanta Chowdhury.[5] The screenplay was written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[6][7] It revolves around a prostitute who struggles to get her daughter married to a decent man.[8] It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar.[9][10][11][12] Debashree Roy was credited as Rumki Roy in the film.[6] The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[13]

This is the film where Debashree Roy, for the first time played a leading role.[14] It was the first film where Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy collaborated together.[15] 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.[16] She drew critical favour for her gaze in the film. Soumitra Chatterjee and Ajitesh Banerjee won critical favour for their performance in the film.[17] The film was a major success at box office.[18][19]

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  15. ^ কলকাতা. "পুরনো জুটিই কি এখন হিট? মিঠুন-দেবশ্রীর প্রত্যাবর্তন উস্কে দিল 'ত্রয়ী'র স্মৃতি". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  16. ^ "ঢাকায় আসছেন দেবশ্রী, উদ্দেশ্য চট্টগ্রাম রেলস্টেশন". BanglaTribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Soumitra Chatterjee – Bengal's Last Renaissance Man". The Wire. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  18. ^ "Arabinda Mukherjee, director of timeless Bengali flicks Mouchak, Dhanyee Meye, dies". NEWSMEN. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  19. ^ "Mithun Chakraborty's next movie announced, actor all set to reunite with yesteryear heroine". The Times of India. 17 October 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 17 October 2023.