Chowringhee

Chowringhee (1968)

চৌরঙ্গী)

Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different characters - hotel employees to page 3 personalities dealing different human emotions. Although Sata Bose (played by Uttam Kumar) is the central character of the film, he is not the protagonist in many ways, rather the movie can be described as "hyperlink movie" made long ago than the term is coined.

Date of release
1968-01-01
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Pinaki Mukhopadhyay

Casting

Interesting facts

Chowringhee is a 1968 Indian Bengali drama film by Pinaki Bhushan Mukherjee, starring Uttam Kumar and Subhendu Chatterjee who played the lead role and Biswajit Chatterjee, Supriya Devi and Anjana Bhowmick in supporting role. The music of the film was composed by Ashima Bhattachariya who also produced this film. The film is based on a Bengal novel of the same name by Sankar.

Production

The film is based on Mani Shankar Mukherjee's most selling novel Chowronghee. Pinaki Bhusan Mukherjee directed the film, with music composed and also produced by Ashima Bhattachariya.

Production started during late 1967 and early 1968. The film was shot in the Grand Hotel and Technicians Studio. There are two protagonists — Sata Bose, the character played by Uttam Kumar, and a writer, Shankar, played by Subhendu Chatterjee. Subhendu had scheduling problems in the early days of production as he was attending in the Frankfurt Festival for his film Panchashwaar, which caused filming to be delayed by a few days.

The plot of the film is set in the 1950s. The character of Sata Bose is inspired from two real people — Satya Charan Bose, who was an officer of Eastern Railway, and a hotelier of the Spencas hotel. Both people had an attitude likened to foreigners, unlike common Bengali people of the era.

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