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  • Kankabatir Ghat (1955)
  • Not Rated
    126 min | Drama
Kankabatir Ghat (1955)
Not Rated
126 min | Drama
A tragic story depicting and highlighting the disastrous destiny of the ethnic, eternal Indian woman 'Kangkabotir Ghat' is about the banks of river Ganga in the village of Atashi from where Sati Kangkabati, the great wife of Mr. Mukherji ...See moreA tragic story depicting and highlighting the disastrous destiny of the ethnic, eternal Indian woman 'Kangkabotir Ghat' is about the banks of river Ganga in the village of Atashi from where Sati Kangkabati, the great wife of Mr. Mukherji an artist, committed suicide in an eternal ritual fashion to save her ailing and dying husband. The legend here emphasises that if the wife sacrifices her life in the waters of Ganga, then the husband would revive. After Kangka bati commits suicide, the eccentric Mr. Mukherjee turns mad out of shock and grief and leaves the village with their infant daughter Uma who is latter abducted by the shrewd escort Chameli. Uma grous up under Chameli's parentage, under the name of Sheela, while all the years the insane Mukherjee goes searching for Uma, not realizing that his daughter is in front of his very own eyes. Sheela alias Uma fall in love with Pradip but abandons ? has when a misunderstanding consciously created by Chameli arises. Later a pregnant Uma leaves Chameli and starts residing separately with Mr. Mukherjee which ? Pradip marries for the second time. His second wife is Mrinaal. Co-incidentally Pradip, Mrinal, the rest are also from the same village of Atashi and thus respect Kangkabati's sacrifice immensely. Pradip and Uma meet after 7 long years through Pradip-Uma's enstranged son. Pradip is shocked to see Uma's poverty & his own son doing hawkery in the lanes of Kolkata. After returning to Atashi, he falls severely sick and ultimately marches towards death. Meanwhile in Kolkata, amidst all formalist. The real truth is revealed by Nandua, an ally of Chameli and Mr. Mukherjee and Uma realizes that they are the father daughter in reality. The father daughter duo gets the news about Pradip's sickness. Uma runs to save the life of her husband who is now somebody else's husband. She meets her rival Mrinaal with almost compassion, keeps her son at her refuge and follows the same path of her mother Kangkabati to save the life of he See less
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Director
Chitta Bose (as Chitto Basu)
Writers
Arup Bhattacharya (lyrics) | Nripendrakrishna Chatterjee (screenplay) (as Nripendrakrishna Chattopadhyay) | Mahendra Gupta (story)
Composer
Kalipada Sen
Cinematographer
Ramananda Sen Gupta
Editor
Baidyanath Chatterjee (as Baidyanath Chattopadhyay)
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Updated Aug 12, 1955
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Aug 12, 1955 (India)

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