Antony Firingee

Antony Firingee (1967)

Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.

Date of release
1967-01-06
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 37m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Sunil Bandyopadhyay

Casting

Interesting facts

Antony Firingee is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language biographical musical drama film written and directed by Sunil Bannerjee. Produced by Bholanath Roy under the banner of B. N. Roy Productions, it stars Uttam Kumar and Tanuja on the lead. It is a biopic based on the life of Anthony Firingee, a Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin. Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Nirupoma. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.

Production

Anthony Firingi was based on the real life of Portuguese-Bengali folk poet Hensman Anthony. Written and directed by Sunil Bandyopadhyay. The film shooting was held in Midnapore district at that time, where the film. set was made. The Durga Dalan of Raibari of Jara dynasty, the Zamindar Palace and the Natmandir (Eshtablished by Ram Gopal Ray) in front of it was showing in the film that is photographed. Uttamkumar himself acted here.

Tanuja acted in this film as Nirupa with Uttam Kumar. This is her second Bengali film and also the second film where Uttam and Tanuja worked together, working before in the 1963 blockbuster film Deya Neya. Here Manna Dey playback for Uttam Kumar in all the songs because that time there is ego clash and brawl between Uttam and Hemanta Kumar. Hemanta who sang for Uttam most of the time and their pair is most popular in Bengali cinema.

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