Dharitri

This article is about the film. For the newspaper, see Dharitri (newspaper).

Dharitri is a social satire drama in Odia, released on 30 March 1973. It is based on Amulya Kumari Patnaik's novel of the same name. Sarat Pujari, Prashant Nanda, Sriram Panda, Bhanumati Devi and Dhira Biswal acted in key roles.^[1][2][3][4]

Dharitri
Poster
Directed by	Nitai Palit
Written by	Amulya Kumari Patnaik
Produced by	Dhira Biswal
Starring	Sarat Pujari Prasant Nanda Sriram Panda Dhira Biswal
Cinematography	S. Swant
Edited by	Ramesh Joshi
Music by	Upendra Kumar
Production company	Progressive Films Productions
Distributed by	Progressive Films Productions
Release date	30 March 1973 (1973-03-30)
Running time	278 min
Country	India
Language	Odia

Plot

Girish Choudhury is a pseudo-social activist and politician. He has two sons, Subhendu and Sudhir. To get popularity in society, he gets his daughter-in-law from a poor family for his son Subhendu. Subhendu doesn't like his wife Mamata and stays in town engaged in the contracting business with the help of his father. Girish's wife always tortures Mamata and asks for dowry. Mamata silently bears all the pain and torture caused by her mother-in-law. Sudhir, a revolutionist, doesn't accept the things happening in his house and revolts against his father, mother and brother. at last he gets success uniting Subhendu and Mamata.

Cast

• Sarat Pujari as Subhendu Choudhury
• Bhanumati Devi as Girish's wife
• Prashant Nanda as Rabi
• Sriram Panda as Sudhir Choudhury
• Dhira Biswal as Girish Choudhury
• Sandhya Acharya as Mamata
• Bhim Singh as Braja
• Govind Tej as Usha's father
• Shyamalendu Bhattacharjee as Sudhir's friend
• Dinabandhu Das as Murali
• Babaji Sahu as Mamu
• Narendra Behera as Sudhir's friend
• Aneema Pedini as Ragini
• Alpana Nayak as Usha

Soundtrack

The music for the film was composed by Upendra Kumar.

Song	Lyrics	Singer(s)
"Pirati Tora Duru Juhara"	Brundaban Jena	Chita Ranjan Jena, Sipra Bose
"Prananatha Naileta Jibana Hari"	Sibabrata Das	Sipra Bose
"Sapanara Pathe Pathe"	Sibabrata Das	Sikandar Alam
"Swargadapi Gariyasi Janani Maa Dharitri"	Sibabrata Das	Shyamal Mitra
"Mohan He Mohan"	Narayan Prasad Singh	Nirmla Misra
"Barambar Dele Parichaya"	Narayan Prasad Singh	Sikandar Alam, Sipra Bose

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Trivia

Actor Sriram Panda debuted in the film.

Awards

• 2nd Orissa State Film Awards 1974^[9][10]
  • Best Film
  • Best director - Nitai Palit