Bhuvan Shome (1969)

Bhuvan Shome (1969)
96 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi | Bengali | Gujarati



Director: Mrinal Sen
Writers: Balaichand Mukherjee (story), Mrinal Sen (screenplay), Badrinath (Dialogue), Satyendra Sharma (dialogue), Yagya Sharma (commentary)
Stars: Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay and Shekhar Chatterjee
Music: Vijay Raghav Rao


Bhuvan Shome is a 1969 Hindi film directed by Mrinal Sen. The cast includes Utpal Dutt (Mr Bhuvan Shome) and Suhasini Mulay (Gauri, a village belle). Sen based his film on a Bengali story by Banaphool (Balai Chand Mukhopadhya) and is considered a landmark in modern Indian cinema.
This is a debut film for Suhasini Mulay.(Wikipedia Page)

Bhuvan Shome is a lonely widower, a proud old man and a disciplinarian. Looking back on the trodden path, strewn with staunch determination and drab attitudes, Bhuvan Shome, a thoroughly unenchanted man, takes a day off and walks into another world—a new world consisting of simple uninitiated village folk. There he rides a bullock cart, encounters a buffalo and finally a village belle. Off to duck shooting amidst the sand dunes, suddenly everything lights up. A day’s exposure to a host of alien situations deepens his sense of loneliness. He realizes that he has no escape from the world which he has built for himself all these years. (Mrinal Sen Website)


Awards:
National Award - Best Film
National Award - Best Director
National Award - Best Actor (Utpal Dutta)


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Artist: Matteo Pugliese

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