Dharitri

Synopsis

Girish Choudhury is a pseudo social activist and politician. He has two sons, Subhendu and Sudhir. To get popularity in society he gets his daughter-in-law from a poor family for his son Subhendu. Subhendu doesn't like his wife Mamata and stays in town and engaged in contracting business with the help of his father. Grish's wife always tortures Mamata and ask for dowry. Mamata silently bears all the pain and torture caused by her mother-in-law. Sudhir, a revolutionist doesn't accept the things happens in his house and revolt back against his father, mother and brother. at last he gets success uniting Subhendu and Mamata.

Cast

Sarat Pujari ... Subhendu Choudhury

Bhanumati Devi ... Girish's wife

Prashant Nanda ... Rabi

Sriram Panda ... Sudhir Choudhury

Dhira Biswal ... Girish Choudhury

Parbati Ghosh ... Mamata

Sandhya Acharya ... Ketaki

Bhim Singh ... Braja

Govind Tej ... Usha's father

Shyamalendu Bhattacharjee ... Sudhir's friend

Dinabandhu Das ... Murali

Babaji Sahu ... Mamu

Narendra Behera ... Sudhir's friend

Aneema Pedini ... Ragini

Alpana Nayak ... Usha

Soundtrack

The Music for the film is composed by Upendra Kumar

Trivia

Actor Sriram Panda debuted in the film. Actress & director Parbati Ghosh appeared in the film as Chandana.

Awards

2nd Orissa State Film Awards 1974

Best Film

Best director - Nitai Palit