Bagalar Banga Darshan

Bagalar Banga Darshan (1964) (Bengali: বগলার বঙ্গদর্শন)^[1] is an incomplete Bengali film created by legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. The film was shot for one week only and later it was abandoned and the film remained incomplete. Recently Ritwik Memorial Trust has collected the available reels of the film, and after their work of re-editing they published four reels of the film which has 6 songs which were recorded before the shooting. Ritwik Ghatak not only was the director of the film, he also wrote the story and the screenplay. The plot of the story was inspired by a film of an Italian director Blasetti.^[2]

Cast and Crew

Cast

• Sunil Bhattacharya as Bagala.
• Indrani Mukherjee as Kanchanmala.
• Padma Debi.
• Renuka Roy.
• Jahor Roy
• Mumtaz Ahmed Khan.
• Keshto Mukherjee
• Tarun Ghosh.
• Master Dipak.

Crew

• Producer: Ramanlal Maheshwari.
• Direction, story, screenplay: Ritwik Ghatak.
• Cinematography: Dilip Ranjan Mukherjee.
• Editing: Ramen Joshi.
• Music: Hridoy Raanjan Kushari.
• Art Direction: Rabi Chaterjee.
• Still Photography: Mahendra Kumar
• Singer: Pratima Barua, Arati Mukherjee

Script

Dey's Publishing, Kolkata has published the script in the form of a book, titled same as the film (ISBN 81-295-0524-X).

See also

• Ritwik Ghatak
• Nagarik

References

1. "Bagalar Banga Darshan". British Film Institute. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
2. Ghaṭaka, R̥tvikakumāra (2005). Calaccitra, mānusha ebaṃ āro kichu (in Bengali) (1. De'ja saṃskaraṇa. ed.). Kalakātā: De'ja Pābaliśiṃ. p. 354. ISBN 81-295-0397-2.