''Annapurnar Mandir'' () was a

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social

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Naresh Mitra Naresh Mitra (18 May 1888 – 1968) was a Bengali actor, director and screenwriter. Career Naresh Mitra was born in 1888 in Agartala, Tripura, British India. He studied law from the University of Calcutta. He started his acting career in 1922 ...

based on a same name novel of Nirupama Devi. This film was released on 6 August 1954 under the banner of ''Chitra Mandir'' and received

2nd National Film Awards The 2nd National Film Awards, then known as State Awards for Films, presented by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1954. Ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhavan, New De ...

in 1954. Here

Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar ( bn, উত্তম কুমার; born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), popularly known as the Mahanayak, was an Indian actor, producer, director, script writer, composer, and singer who predom ...

and Sabitri Chaterjee play the lead role as hero and heroine while Suchitra Sen played supporting role. This film had no music. This was the first film of Uttam Kumar to win a National Award.

Plot

Ramshankar is a poor man who lives with his two daughters. His elder daughter loves a young man but he arranges her marriage with an old man who is giving huge dowry. Soon she returns home as a widow. Owing to societal curse she commits suicide.

Cast

* Suchitra Sen *

Sabitri Chatterjee Sabitri Chatterjee (born 22 February 1937) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali theatre and cinema. Her career spans more than 60 years. She is the recipient of BFJA Awards for two times. In 1999, she was conferred with Sa ...

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* Anup Kumar *

Tulsi Chakraborty Tulsi Chakraborty (also Tulsi Chakrabarti, bn, তুলসী চক্রবর্তী; 3 March 1899 – 11 December 1961) was an Indian actor and comedian who worked in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema in the 1940s and 50s. His most n ...

Jiben Bose Jiben Bose (1915 – 21 March 1975) was a Bengali Indian actor known for his serious-comical side role performances in Bengali cinema. Biography Bose was born in 1915 in Kolkata, British India. He was known for mainly supporting characters in Be ...

Molina Devi Molina Devi (1917 — 13 August 1977), also known as Molina Debi and Malina Debi, was a Bengali Indian actress of Bengali and Hindi film and theatre. As an actress, she played a wide variety of parts, later frequently playing matronly parts, esp ...

* Mihir Bhattacharya * Nibhanani Debi * Tara Bhaduri * Mita Bhattacharya

Reception

This is the only film where Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee playing lead role and Suchitra sen in supporting role. The film was very critically acclaimed and also saw the commercial success. It ran for 91 days in theaters.

Award

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National Film Award The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directora ...

1955 : Certificate of Merit Third best feature film in Bengali (Won)

References

External links

* {{National Film Award Best Feature Film Bengali 1954 films Bengali-language Indian films 1954 romantic drama films Films based on Indian novels Indian black-and-white films Indian romantic drama films 1950s Bengali-language films Films directed by Naresh Mitra