Upahar

Upahar is a Bengali drama film directed by Tapan Sinha based on a novel Krishna of Sailajananda Mukherjee.^[1] This film was produced by the Bani Chitram and release in 1955. It's starring Uttam Kumar, Manju Dey and Sabitri Chatterjee in lead. Music director of the film was Kalipada Sen. This was the second film and first collaboration for Sinha with Kumar. Film was critically acclaimed but did moderate success at the box office.

Upahar
Upahar
Directed by	Tapan Sinha
Written by	Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay Dialogues - Sudhiranjan Mukhopadhyay
Screenplay by	Tapan Sinha
Based on	Krishna 1955 Story by Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
Starring	Uttam Kumar Manju Dey Sabitri Chatterjee
Cinematography	Anil Banerjee
Edited by	Subodh Ray
Music by	Kalipada Sen Lyricist - Gauriprasanna Majumdar
Production company	Bani Chitram
Distributed by	Chayabani Limited
Release date	12 August 1955 (1955-08-12)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Cast

• Uttam Kumar as Professor Ashok Sarkar
• Sabitri Chatterjee as Krishna
• Manju Dey as Neela
• Nirmal Kumar Chattopadhyay as Sunil
• Chabi Biswas as Sunil's father
• Kanu Banerjee as Kangalibabu
• Aparna Devi as Sunil's mother
• Tulsi Chakraborty as Ghatak
• Anubha Gupta as Sunil's aunt
• Jahar Roy as Servant
• Shyam Laha as Sethji

Soundtrack

Upahar
Soundtrack album by Kalipada Sen
Released	1955
Recorded	1955
Studio	Bani Chitram
Length	0:05:58
Label	Angel Digital
Kalipada Sen chronology
Bidhilipi (1955) Upahar (1955) Kankabatir Ghat (1955)

All lyrics are written by Gauriprasanna Majumdar; all music is composed by Kalipada Sen.

Songs

No.	Title	Playback	Length
1.	"Rimjhim Rimjhim"	Suprova Mitra	3:30
2.	"Din Chale Jay"	Shyamal Mitra	2:28
Total length:			5:58

Reception

This was only the second Bengali film from director Tapan Sinha. His first film Ankush did not perform well. This was also the first collaboration by Uttam and Sinha. This film performed average at that time, but Uttam's performance was considered as one finest and ahead of the time. Sinha wrote in his autobiography that "Uttam's future is promising. There is lot of potential hidden in him." This film was a milestone.^[2]