Hamrahi (1945)
An idealistic writer from a humble background clashes with a wealthy capitalist who steals his work. When factory workers strike, the capitalist's sister, disillusioned by her privileged life, abandons her wealth to join the writer in his fight for social justice and equality for the poor.
- Date of release
- 1945-08-30
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Director
- Bimal Roy
Casting
- Radhamohan Bhattacharya — Anup
- Maya Basu
- Tulsi Chakraborty
- Binota Roy — Gopa
- Rekha Mallick — Sumitra
- Devbala
- Hiralal
Interesting facts
Hamrahi (transl. Companion/Partner), is a 1945 Hindi social drama film of Indian cinema. The bilingual film was a remake of its popular Bengali version called Udayer Pathey (1944). Bimal Roy, after working as a cinematographer with New Theatres, Calcutta, launched into feature film direction. Udayer Pathey was Roy's debut film as a director of Bengali films, while Hamrahi was his first directorial venture in Hindi cinema. The original story and dialogues for the Bengali version were written by Jyotirmoy Roy, with the dialogues in Hindi written by Mohanlal Bajpai. It was produced by New Theatres, Calcutta, and the cinematographer was Bimal Roy.
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