Bedeni, also known as Arup Kotha (1951–52), is an unfinished

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film directed by legendary filmmaker

Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembe ...

. This was the first movie in which Ritwik worked as a director.

Making

The film was based on a short story of

Tarashankar Bandopadhyay Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. ...

named ''Nagini''. In 1950 when the shooting started the director of this movie was Nirmal Dey. The shooting of the film was arranged in Rupashree studio,

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. After the studio got devastated by fire in an accident, they started shooting in

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. After some time, the shooting of the film had to be stopped mainly for financial problems. In 1951

was appointed as the director of this film. Ghatak made some changes in the storyline, rewrote screenplay and renamed the film ''Arup Kotha''. In 1952 the film unit shot for 20 days in

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and

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in the bank of river Subarnarekha. But, for some technical problem in the cameras used in the shooting the film did not expose. So, the film was abandoned.

Cast and crew

Cast

Shobha Sen Shobha Sen (17 September 1923 – 13 August 2017) (also known as Sova Sen) was Bengali theatre and film actress.Anit Mukerjea (28 June 2004)"A Woman of Grit"Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (From The Statesman (India)) Career After graduating from ...

as Pingala *

Bijon Bhattacharya Bijon Bhattacharya ( bn, বিজন ভট্টাচার্য; 17 July 1906 – 19 January 1978) was an Indian theatre and film actor from West Bengal. He was an eminent playwright and dramatist. Bhattacharya was born in 1906 at Farid ...

Keshto Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee (7 August 1925 – 2 March 1982) was an Indian actor and comedian. He was born in Kolkata,Bengal Presidency, British India. He specialised in comic drunkard roles in Hindi films. Though he was famous for his drunkard typecast ...

*Ketaki Dutta as Chiti *Mita Chaterjee as Gokhri *Prabha Debi as Shapla *Abhi Bhatacharya as Dhona *Maharshi Manoranjan Bhattacharya as Sardar *Mumtaz Ahmed Khan *Parijat Bose

Crew

*Production: Sunil Krishna Roy. *Direction and screenplay:

. *Story:

. *Cinematography: Sachin Dasgupta.

References

Bengali-language Indian films 1950s unfinished films Films directed by Ritwik Ghatak Films based on works by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay {{1950s-Bengali-film-stub