Banhisikha[1] is a Bengali drama film directed by Pijush Bose. The film stars Uttam Kumar, Supriya Devi, Ranjit Mullick and Bangladeshi actress Olivia Lopej in lead. This the debut film in India of Olivia and she is only actress from Bangladesh who act with Kumar. The film show a big success at the box office and huge acclaimed of Uttam Kumar performance.[2]
Plot
Latika and Bilash love each other. Bilash is about to go abroad to study to become a barrister. Latika's parents want them to get married before he leaves. However once Bilash reveals the truth about his parentage, Latika's parents cancel the wedding. Bilash asks Latika to wait for a year till he returns but on returning finds that Latika is already married and has a little daughter, Ranu. Bilash is very disappointed and decides to take a revenge against society and also on Latika who has betrayed him. He kidnaps Ranu and guides her to become an antisocial. He becomes a criminal and operates under the name of Mr. Sinha. Meanwhile, Ranu's father brings Pradut, a village boy home after he thinks that his only daughter is dead. Pradut grows up to be a police officer and decides to destroy all antisocial elements in Kolkata. He finds a partner called Captain Human. They came to know that Mr Sinha is the biggest antisocial and start searching for him. In the meantime Pradut finds a girl, Banhi, who is actually Ranu and falls in love with her. Mr Sinha does not want both Banhi and Pradut to get married and hence tries to kill them. On interacting with pradut, Mr. Sinha finds out that Latika was forcibly married off by her family. He realises his mistake and surrenders to the police. He is given the death sentence but before he is hanged he reveals banhi's true identity. Banhi and Pradut finally get married.
This film is remembered as Uttam Kumar's one of the best film and best performance. His negative character was huge praised by the critics and audiences. Ultimately the film become hit at the box office.[2]
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