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Bou Thakuranir Haat (1953)

Bou Thakuranir Haat poster
Directed by
Naresh Mitra
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 05m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man in 19th century Bengal gets involved in a conflict between traditional landowners and a rising merchant class. He learns to ride and fight as tensions escalate around family loyalty and societal change.

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What happens

Bou Thakuranir Haat is a 1953 Bengali drama film directed by Naresh Mitra based on a novel of Rabindranath Tagore of the same name, published in 1883. This film was released under the banner of Emar Productions. It stars Uttam Kumar, Pahadi Sanyal in the lead with Sambhu Mitra, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay and others. Uttam Kumar learned horse riding and sword fighting for the character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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