Chowringhee (1968)
Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different characters - hotel employees to page 3 personalities dealing different human emotions. Although Sata Bose (played by Uttam Kumar) is the central character of the film, he is not the protagonist in many ways, rather the movie can be described as "hyperlink movie" made long ago than the term is coined.
Director:
Pinaki Mukhopadhyay
Writer:
Amal Sarkar
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Uttam Kumar as Sata Bose |
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Subhendu Chatterjee as Shankar |
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Utpal Dutt as Marco Polo |
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Supriya Choudhury as Karabi Guha |
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Bhanu Banerjee as Nityahari Babu |
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Haradhan Bandyopadhyay as Jimmy |
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Anjana Bhowmik as Sujata |
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Biswajeet Chatterjee as Anindya Pakrashi |
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Tarun Kumar as |
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Bankim Ghosh as Mr. Agarwal |
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Dipak Mukherjee as Byron |
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Prashanta Kumar as Gomez |
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Jahar Roy as Juno |
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Miss Shefali as |
| Directing | Pinaki Mukhopadhyay | Director |
| Camera | Dinen Gupta | Director of Photography |
| Art | Sudhir Khan | Art Direction |
| Writing | Rabindranath Tagore | Lyricist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pyar Ali | Hairdresser |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kabari | Hairdresser |
| Writing | Amal Sarkar | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mani Shankar Mukherjee | Story |
| Editing | Kali Raha | Editor |
| Writing | Miltu Ghosh | Lyricist |
| Sound | Asima Bhattacharya | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Basir Ahmed | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Asima Bhattacharya | Producer |