<ul><li>Director: P.C. Barua;</li>
<li>Writer: P.C. Barua, Sajanikanta Das, Ajoy Bhattacharya, A.H. Shore; * Cinematographer: Bimal Roy;</li>
<li>Editor: Kali Raha;</li>
<li>Cast: P.C. Barua, Kanan Devi, Menaka, Nawab, Amar Mullick, Sailen Choudhary, Ahi Sanyal, Jagdish Sethi, Bikram Kapoor, Pankaj Mullick, Indu Mukherjee, Kanak Narayan, Bibhuti Chakraborty, Kashi Choudhury, Jatin Dey, Sardeb Ray, Sukumar, Sudhir, Laxmi;</li>
<li>Duration: 01:55:02;</li>
<li>Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1;</li>
<li>Hue: 60.001;</li>
<li>Saturation: 0.018;</li>
<li>Lightness: 0.212;</li>
<li>Volume: 0.158;</li>
<li>Cuts per Minute: 3.668;</li>
<li>Words per Minute: 63.761;</li>
<li>Summary: Barua's classic adultery story tells of an artist, Prasanta (Barua) presented in the stereotypically romantic image dedicated to his vocation, paying no heed to his scandalous reputation and with a cavalier attitude to his conservative father-in-law's (Choudhury) demands for good social behaviour. He is married to the rich Chitra (Kanan Devi). The couple are in love but neither partner is prepared to compromise their ideals. The marriage falls apart. Prasanta concedes his wife demand for a divorce and goes to the jungles of Assam, where for many years his closest associates are a wild elephant and Jharna (Menaka), the wife of an innkeeper named Pahari (P. Mullick). He also makes a sworn enemy of a local trader (Nawab/A. Mullick). Chitra marries the millionaire Bipul (Mukherjee) and they go on an elephant hunt. They kill Prasanta's pet elephant. Since Chitra believes Prasanta to be dead he avoids meeting her, but he is forced to rescue her from the vilainous trader. Prasanta succeeds but dies at Chitra's feet. The film interprets his death as Chitra's final achievement of the freedom she had craved. This was one of the first elaborate filmic uses of Rabindranath Tagore's lyrics, with the poet's original tunes (Sahar range rang, Mesa te bobe. Tar biday belar malakhani), but one of the film's big hits, Diner sheshe ghumer deshe, was composed originally for the film by Mullick.</li>
<li>Release date: 18 September, 1937 (Chitra)</li>
<li>Annotated by the Media Lab Jadavpur University</li></ul>
P.C. Barua
1937
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