Ora Thake Odhare

Ora Thake Odhare (transl. They Live That Side) is a Bengali-language romantic comedy film directed by Sukumar Dasgupta^[1] based on a story by Premendra Mitra.^[2][3] This film was released on 5 February 1954 under the banner of S. M. Productions.^[4][5] The music direction was done by Kalipada Sen.^[3] The film stars Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Chhabi Biswas and Tulsi Chakraborty.

Ora Thake Odhare
Directed by	Sukumar Dasgupta
Screenplay by	Pemendra Mitra (lyrics and dialogues also)
Story by	Pemendra Mitra
Produced by	Sukumar Dasgupta
Starring	Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Chhabi Biswas
Cinematography	Banku Roy
Edited by	Biswanath Mitra
Music by	Kalipada Sen
Production company	S.M Productions
Distributed by	Aurora Film Corporation Release
Release date	1954 (1954)
Running time	99 minutes
Language	Bengali

Plot

This story revolves around the contemporary fights between the bangal and ghoti in 1950s West Bengal. Just after the partition, refugees were coming from east-Pakistan-they are bangal. The old residents of West Bengal are ghatis. Both are Bangali but there are some differences in pronunciations, in culture and also in rituals. Two families start to stay as neighbours. One of them is ghati family, Harimohan is their only casing ? member. He, his wife, son Chanchal and little girl Rini are his family members. In the opposite house, there are Shibadash his wife, son Naru, elder sister Joshoda, Shibadash's brother-in law Nepal and Shibadash's orphan niece Pramila. Chanchal teaches Promila as a private tutor. Naru and Rini play together happily, but the other male members of both the family often fight. They fight for everything, for a football match, for an iron machine or something like that. An affection between Chanchal and Promila grow up. It is revealed to the female members of both family. They agree to settle their marriage. Joshoda comes to propose Harimohan for his son but just before it, Harimohan discovers that he has lost his job. He refuses and misbehaves with Joshoda. Harimohan doesn't find another job, and start borrowing money from Kabuliwallah and from others. A day comes when he has to return all the money which he can't. They plan to escape. Rini learns of it and informs Naru. Shibadash and Nepal start arranging the money for them, and Shibadash's wife gives the money. Harimohan with his family try to escape, but learn that Shibadash and Nepal have already returned all the money. Their relationship takes a new twist. Finally their fight leads to a love affair between two person.

Cast

• Uttam Kumar
• Suchitra Sen
• Bhanu Bandopadhyay
• Tulsi Chakrabarti
• Chhabi Biswas
• Dhiraj Bhattacharya
• Molina Devi
• Panchanan Bhattacharya
• Bijoy Bose
• Anath Chattopadhyay
• Sarat Chattopadhyay

Soundtrack

Ora Thake Odhare
Soundtrack album by Kalipada Sen
Released	1954
Recorded	1953
Studio	S.M Productions
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	0:08:18
Label	Angel Digital Private Limited
Producer	Sukumar Dasgupta

All lyrics are written by Pemendra Mitra; all music is composed by Kalipada Sen.

Songs

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hello Hello Hello"	3:15
2.	"Keno Theke Theke Amar"	2:57
3.	"Oi Ashe Oi Ashe Oi"	3:06
Total length:		8:18

Reception

The film showed the Bengali's popular fight between Ghoti and Bangal. The Times Of India wrote Sukumar Dasgupta shows the age-old battle between a West Bengali ‘ghoti’ family and a ‘bangal’ family from East Bengal. It deals with the friction between two communities that exists since almost eternity.^[6]

The film was a box-office hit and ran for about fifty days in the theaters.^[7]