Dadar Kirti
Dadar Kirti is a 1980 Bengali romantic drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar. The film was based on an unpublished novel of the same name by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. It stars Tapas Paul, Mahua Roychoudhury, Ayan Banerjee, Debashree Roy, Sandhya Roy, Kali Banerjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta and Anup Kumar. The film marks the debut of Tapas Paul.
The film attained a huge box office success upon its release and still has a popular following.
Cast
- Tapas Paul as Kedar a.k.a. Phulda
- Mahua Roychoudhury as Saraswati
- Debashree Roy as Beena
- Ayan Banerjee as Santu
- Anup Kumar as Bhombolda
- Satya Bandyopadhyay as Santu's father
- Kali Banerjee as Saraswati and Beena's father
- Sandhya Roy as Santu's boudi
- Ruma Guha Thakurta as Saraswati and Beena's mother
- Sulata Chowdhury as Phulmatia
- Haradhan Banerjee as Kedar's father
- Kaushik Banerjee as Amarnath
- Shamit Bhanja as Santu's elder brother
- Monu Mukherjee as doctor
- Nimu Bhowmik
- Shakti Thakur as Santu's friend
- Sonali Chakraborty
Crew
- Direction: Tarun Majumdar
- Production: Ram Cine Arts
- Producer: Ram Gupta
- Production Controller: Ishwar Lal Sharma
- Production Controller Assistants: Savitri Das
- Story: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Screenplay: Tarun Majumdar
- Cinematography: Shakti Bannerjee
- Music: Hemanta Mukherjee
- Editing: Ramesh Joshi, Shaktipada Roy
- Art Direction: Suresh Chandra Chandra
- Audiography: Anil Dasgupta, Jyoti Chatterjee, Somesh Chatterjee, Amulya Das
Music
The music director of the film is Hemanta Mukherjee. The film has many uses of Rabindra Sangeet such as Charana Dharite, Ei korechho bhalo and also Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe, Guru Guru Guru Guru Ghono Megho which was the part of the play 'Chitrangada' in the movie. There was also a song which was originally written by Saradindu Bandopadhyay himself titled as Janam Abdhi. The music of the film was a huge hit upon release and is still popular today.Source: