Subarna Golak

1981 Bengali-language Indian comedy drama film

Subarna Golak is a 1981 Bengali-language Indian comedy drama film directed by Manu Sen based on the novel of the same name by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.^[1]^[2]^[3] Music and script were by Hemanta Mukherjee and Birendra Krishna Bhadra, respectively.^[4]^[3]

Plot

Lord Shiva threw away a golden ball that even the gods are scared to keep. The ball creates greed and violence amongst the gods due to its opulence. Shiva had endowed the ball with a magical power, whenever a person physically hands it over to someone else, they start behaving like each other. When it reaches Earth, accidentally a typical Bengali Babu is the first person to find it while going to his in-laws’ home. He gives it to his servant to carry, and when their minds get exchanged, comedy ensues.^[5]

Cast

Prosenjit Chatterjee as Dipu
Deepankar De as Kalikanta Chowdhury
Rabi Ghosh as Rama
Utpal Dutt as Nilratan
Mahua Roychoudhury as Kamala, Nilratan's elder daughter and Kalikanta Chowdhury's wife
Debashree Roy as Bimala, Nilratan's younger daughter and Dipu's love interest
Chinmoy Roy as Gobra
Sulata Chowdhury as Tarango, Gobra's wife
Kalikinkar Banerjee
Rathin Basu
Bishwanath Banerjee
Swaraj Basu
Shambhu Bhattacharya
Dhiman Chakraborty

Music

"Katodin Ami Dekhini Tomar Mukh" - Arundhati Holme Chowdhury
"Ei Chand Mukh Dekhe" - Papia Bhattacharya
"Shukla Paksha Krishna Paksha" - Anup Ghoshal
"Ami Aaj Bhebechhi Mone" - Anup Ghoshal
"Din Nei Raat Nei" - Hemant Kumar, Chorus

External links

Subarna Golak at IMDb

References

^ "Watch and munch for jamai". The Telegraph. India. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
^ "Subarna Golak (1981)". gomolo.com. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Subarna Golak". Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^ "Mahalaya 2017". indianexpress.com. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^ "1981 - Subarnagolak.pdf" (PDF). docs.google.com. Retrieved 29 July 2023.