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The Padma Boatman is a Bangladais film of genre Drama directed by Goutam Ghose with Raisul Islam Asad
The Padma Boatman (1993)
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Add to a movie listPadma Nadir Majhi (Bengali: পদ্মা নদীর মাঝি, English: Boatman of the River Padma or The Padma Boatman) (1993) is a Indo-Bangladesh joint production feature film directed by Goutom Ghosh from the novel of the same name, Manik Bandopadhyay's Padma Nadir Majhi.
Synopsis
Hossian Miya (Utpal Dutta) is a Bengali Muslim trader who offers his community an idealistic vision: He wants to establish a little utopia on an island (Moynadeep) in the Padma delta and offer them a better life there. It is apparent that Hossian Miya has a flourishing business there, because he has recently purchased a huge boat because of expanding business. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim. It is 1947, just before the partition of India, and the Hindu fisherman Kuber briefly accepts an offer by Hossain to ferry some of the community's cargo from the island. He would be fishing, except that the fish he usually catches have been driven away by a big storm.Actors
Raisul Islam Asad
(Kuber)
Utpal Dutt
(Hussain Miah)
Roopa Ganguly
(Kopila)
Rabi Ghosh
(Aminuddin (as Robi Ghosh))
Humayun Faridi
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