Jiban Trishna

Jiban Trishna (Bengali: জীবন তৃষ্ণা; English: Thirst for Life) is a 1957 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed and screenplay written by the famous director Asit Sen. The story of the film was written by Ashutosh Mukherjee. This film is made under the banner of Badal Pictures. The music of the film is composed by the legendary Bhupen Hazarika. It stars Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, and Bikash Roy in the lead roles.^[5][6] This was the only Asit Sen's film where Uttam Kumar acted. The film became a blockbuster hit at the box office and ran over 70 days in theaters.

Jiban Trishna
Directed by	Asit Sen[1][2]
Written by	Ashutosh Mukherjee
Screenplay by	Asit Sen
Story by	Ashutosh Mukherjee
Produced by	Rakhal Chandra Saha
Starring	Chandrabati Devi Suchitra Sen Pahari Sanyal Uttam Kumar[3] Tarun Kumar Bikash Roy Dipti Ray Jahar Gangopadhyay Bhanu Bandopadhyay[4]
Cinematography	Anil Gupta
Edited by	Tarun Dutta
Music by	Bhupen Hazarika
Production company	Badal Pictures
Distributed by	G.R Pictures
Release date	25 December 1957 (1957-12-25)
Running time	140 min.
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Plot

A poor orphan artist Shakuntala (Suchitra) is wooed by a notorious womanizer Rajnath Samanta(Uttam), only son of a celebrated doctor and millionaire (Pahadi Sanyal). Shakuntala's parents, gave shelter to a woman and an infant male-child. After their death, this boy, Debkamal, took responsibility of the girl and took the role of her elder brother. He has a mixed feeling about Rajnath- he hates his millionaire and would do anything, even con-act, to deprive him of it, but as a person he likes him. Shakuntala is indifferent to be associated with him, since she feels in his life there is no 'need' of her. What would happen when the Samanta family mystery unravels and it comes out that Debkamal is actually Dr Samanta's biological son, whose wife left with the child? The hating Deep now wants not a share of, but full property, in exchange of not opening family skeleton. Parallelly runs another sub-plot of Sabita (Dipti Ray) who stays with her FIL (Jahar Ganguli) and small child (Master Shaibal) - whose husband doesn't keep any contact with her or even his father except occasional letters. Why? What went wrong between them? With a hint of tenderness growing between this deserted wife and Debkamal. A beautifully crafted story - repeated in a few movies later - in two parts in fact, (Dipti's story is treated as a full movie in a few) but not so poignantly - with all around excellent performance by all, even Bhanu was restrained.

Cast

• Uttam Kumar as Rajnath Samanta^[7][8]
• Bikash Roy as Debkamal
• Chandrabati Devi as Suprabha
• Suchitra Sen as Shakuntala^[9][10]
• Pahari Sanyal^[11]
• Bhanu Bandopadhyay

Soundtrack

Jiban Trishna
Soundtrack album by Bhupen Hazarika
Released	1957
Recorded	1957
Studio	Badal Pictures
Length	0:13:35
Label	Angel Digital Pvt Ltd
Producer	Rakhal Chandra Saha
Bhupen Hazarika chronology
Era Batur Sur (1956) Jiban Trishna (1957) Mahut Bandhu Re (1958)

All lyrics are written by Gauriprasanna Mazumder, Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Shyamal Gupta; all music is composed by Bhupen Hazarika.

Songs

No.	Title	Playback	Length
1.	"Phele Asa Pathapane"	Lata Mangeshkar	2:35
2.	"Abar Natun Sokal Hobe"	Utpala Sen	3:13
3.	"Satyam Shibam Sundaram Hey"	Hemanta Mukherjee	4:31
4.	"Kakhono To Hoi Nai Klanta"	Bhupen Hazarika	2:44
Total length:			13:35