<ul><li>Director: Phani Majumdar</li>
<li>Country: India;</li>
<li>Year: 1940;</li>
<li>Language: Bengali;</li>
<li>Runtime: 144 min;</li>
<li>Color: Black and White;</li>
<li>Sound: Mono</li>
<li>Studio: New Theatres</li>
<li>Writer: Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay, Phani Majumdar;</li>
<li>Cinematographer: Yusuf Mulji;</li>
<li>Editor: Haridas Mahalanobis;</li>
<li>Composer: Pankaj Mullick;</li>
<li>Lyricist: Ajoy Kumar Bhattacharya, Rabindranath Tagore</li>
<li>Cast: Pankaj Mullick, Ahindra Choudhury, Jyotiprakash, Sailen Choudhury, Amar Mullick, Buddhadeb, Indu Mukherjee, Panna Rani, Bharati Devi, Nemo, Hari Sundari, Tona Roy, Boken Chattopadhyay, Aurobindo Sen, Naresh Bose, Ardhendu Mukhopadhyay, Kenaram Mukherjee, Kanu Bandyopadhyay, Sukumar Pal, Biren Das, M. M. Bhattacharya, Dwijen Ganguly, Harimohan Bose, Dhruba Chakraborty, Kamala</li>
<li>Genre: Drama, Social</li>
<li>Censorship Certificate Number: 20845;</li>
<li>Date of Censor Certificate: August 28, 1940;</li>
<li>Length: 12720 Feet</li>
<li>Release date: 31 August, 1940 (Chitra; Purna)</li>
<li>Assistant Director: Kartik Chatterjee, Chandrashekhar Bose;</li>
<li>Screenplay: Phani Majumdar;</li>
<li>Dialogue: A.H. Shore</li>
<li>Assistant Cinematographer: Amulya Mukherjee, Kesto Halder;</li>
<li>Laboratory: Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals</li>
<li>IMDb ID: 0236161</li></ul>
Poverty, disease, superstition and caste distinctions were all targets of attack in New Theatres’ “Doctor” which came in 1940, based on a story by Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay. In keeping with the tradition of B. N. Sircar’s famous banner, this film too is meant to be a critique of certain dominant social evils, presented in a way which the audience would like, with soulful songs and the singing star as well as composer Pankaj Mullick playing a prominent part. Multiple thematic strains are interwoven: a father-son conflict, gives way to an inter-caste marriage and its ramifications, to the ethical positions of doctors in society, estranged family, and finally turning a full circle back to the father-son conflict over caste a generation later. The film was dubbed in Hindi, re-edited and released the next year by Subodh Mitra. The film was remade again in 1977, in both Bengali and Hindi, by Shakti Samanta. Uttam Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Rakesh Roshan, Mousumi Chatterjee, Utpal Dutta and Asit Sen were cast in the roles previously played by Pankaj Mullick, Ahindra Choudhury, Panna Rani, Jyotiprakash, Bharati Devi, Sailen Choudhury and Amar Mullick, respectively.
Phani Majumdar
1940
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