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Director
  
Tarun Majumdar

Country
  
India

8.2/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
Bengali

Release date
  
June 29, 1978 (1978-06-29) (India)

Based on
  
Ganadevata (1942)   by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay

Writer
  
Tarashankar Banerjee (novel), Arnab Majumdar (regional dialogue), Tarun Majumdar (screenplay), Rajen Tarafder (screenplay)

Ganadevata (English: The People) is a 1978 Bengali drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar, based on a novel by same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Samit Bhanja, Nilkantha Sengupta, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar in lead roles. The epic novel is set in 1920's during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socio-economic structures, impact of industrialization and non-cooperation movement in rural Bengal . It had also won the writer Bandopadhyay, the 1966 Jnanpith Award.

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At the 26th National Film Awards (1978), it won the award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Best Child Artist Award for Kanchan De Biswas.

Ek ghentu tar saat beta ganadevata manna dey


Cast

  • Soumitra Chatterjee as Debu Pandit
  • Kali Banerjee
  • Sandhya Roy as Durga
  • Tapen Chatterjee as Tara Napit
  • Ajitesh Bannerjee
  • Samit Bhanja
  • Nilkantha Sengupta as Tarini,the singer
  • Rabi Ghosh as Haren Ghosal
  • Anup Kumar
  • Santosh Dutta as Doctor & Social activist for the rural poor people
  • Debraj Roy
  • Madhabi Mukherjee
  • Sumitra Mukherjee
  • Monu Mukhopadhyay
  • Anamika Saha
  • Santu Mukhopadhyay

    • References

    Ganadevata Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Ganadevata IMDb