''Jamai Shashthi'' ( bn, জামাই ষষ্ঠী

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: Son-in-law day) is a 1931

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directed by

Amar Choudhury Amar Choudhury (1897 – 30 August 1948) was an Indian film actor, director, editor and writer. He wrote and directed ''Jamai Shashthi'' in 1931 produced by Madan Theatre Limited, credited as the first Bengali talkie. He acted in this film t ...

and produced by Madan Theatre Limited. It is a milestone of Bengali cinema as it was the first Bengali

as a

talkie A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

. It was released at Crown Cinema Hall in

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commer ...

on 11 April 1931, in the same year as ''

Alam Ara ''Alam Ara'' () is a 1931 Indian Hindustani-language historical fantasy film directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani. It revolves on a king and his two wives, Navbahaar and Dilbahaar, who are childless; soon, a ''fakir'' (Muhammad Wazir Khan) ...

'', the first Indian talkie.

Cast

* Professor Bholanath * Amar Choudhury as kuber * Miss Golela * Khirodegopal Mukherjee * Ranisundari as Mother in law

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* 1931 films 1931 drama films Bengali-language Indian films Indian black-and-white films Indian short films 1930s Bengali-language films Indian drama films {{1930s-Bengali-film-stub

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