Bipasha (film)


Bipasha is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language drama film starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. and directed by Agradoot. The story is based on the Partition of Bengal. It is one of the many hit films in which Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen worked as a pair. The other cast members included Chhabi Biswas, Kamal Mitra, Pahari Sanyal, and Tulsi Chakrabarti.

Plot

The storyline goes when Dibyendu Chattopadhyay the young engineer meets Bipasha Bhattacharya in today's Maithon. Their acquaintance soon reaches a stage when the young couple decide to get married. However, on the night of her marriage to Dibyendu the latter fails to turn up due to a message sent to him by his uncle. Bipasha finds out her uncle and tracks him to Allahabad. Bipasha later finds that there were some rumours about the character of Dibyendu's mother. The film revolves round the journey of Dibyendu in redeeming his mother's innocence and chastity. And finally truth is revealed that Dibyendu's father had been in an affair with an English girl and did not recognise his son and had called his mother unfaithful. But actually nothing was what it seemed and Dibyendu was a lawful son.

Cast

In an article honoring the actors 35 years after Uttam Kumar's death, The Indian Express wrote "Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar heralded the golden era of Bengali cinema", and listed Bipasha as among their most popular films. The Telegraph listed it among the duo's "string of memorable hits", and when speaking the two as box office draws, The Pioneer listed at as among their biggest hits.

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