Bhanu Wins the Lottery

Bhanu Wins the Lottery (1958)

ভানু পেলো লটারি

Bhanu Chitrakar is a village-based clay modellist who earns a living selling earthen toys and singing. One day, he is presented a ticket for the Luck Velky Lottery by his Kolkata-based friend Jahar, with the first prize for the lottery standing at Rs 395,000.

Date of release
1958-08-01
TMDB
2.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama
Director
M.G.S. Unit.

Casting

Interesting facts

Bhanu Pelo Lottery is a 1958 Indian Bengali comedy film produced by Tushar Kanti Ghosh and directed by the MGS Pictures Unit. It starred Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Jahor Roy, Kamal Mitra and Lily Chakraborty. The film had music by Nachiketa Ghosh and lyrics by Gouri Prasanna Majumdar.

Trivia

The movie has a unique scene where Bhanu Chitrakar in his dream goes to the Tollygunge movie studios and meets the actor Bhanu Bandopadhyay in person. The two Bhanus are brought face to face, with the same actor playing both the character and himself. When the actor Bhanu meets his doppelganger, he wants to know if the crew has brought him a body double.

Bhanu Bandopadhyay and Jahor Roy played different versions of themselves in some other movies like Bhanu Goenda Jahar Assistant. This double-act has parallels in Bollywood in films like Johar Mehmood in Goa, starring I. S. Johar and Mehmood.

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