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Dada Thakur (1962)
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Dada Thakur is a 1962 Bengali feature film based on the life of Sarat Chandra Pandit (popularly known as Dada Thakur), starring Chhabi Biswas in the lead role. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
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The film is based closely on the life of the real-life Dada Thakur, and was made in his lifetime. Dada Thakur (Chhabi Biswas) starts his career with a hand-operated press, with his wife as his assistant. Later he is joined by Nalini Kanta Sarkar, an underground freedom-fighter. Dada Thakur brings out the newspaper Jangipur Sangbad. He campaigns against social evils and earns the ire of the ruling classes. He saves a girl, Lata, from the unwanted advances of Darpanarayan (Biswajeet), scion of the local zamindar. Lata joins the ranks of freedom fighters working with Sarkar. Subsequently, a reformed Darpanarayan too becomes an ardent follower of Dada Thakur and joins the struggle for India's freedom. Dada Thakur's greatest success is when he helps an ordinary man, a petty shopkeeper, get elected as the Municipal Commissioner of Jangipur.Actors
Chhabi Biswas
(Dada Thakur)
Biswajit Chatterjee
(Darpanarayan)
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