Chowringhee

Chowringhee

140 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1968

Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different characters - hotel employees to page 3 personalities dealing different human emotions. Although Sata Bose (played by Uttam Kumar) is the central character of the film, he is not the protagonist in many ways, rather the movie can be described as "hyperlink movie" made long ago than the term is coined.

Chowringhee

140 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1968

Chowringhee
Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different characters - hotel employees to page 3 personalities dealing different human emotions. Although Sata Bose (played by Uttam Kumar) is the central character of the film, he is not the protagonist in many ways, rather the movie can be described as "hyperlink movie" made long ago than the term is coined.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Pompy Films
Original title চৌরঙ্গী)
Directors Pinaki Mukherjee
Writers Miltu Ghosh, Amal Sarkar, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Rabindranath Tagore

Cast

Uttam Kumar

as Sata Bose

Supriya Choudhury

as Karabi Guha

Anjana Bhowmik

as Sujata

Subhendu Chatterjee

as Shankar

Utpal Dutt

as Marco Polo

Bhanu Banerjee

as Nityahari Babu

Biswajeet Chatterjee

as Anindya Pakrashi

Bankim Ghosh

as Mr. Agarwal

Dipak Mukherjee

as Byron

Prashanta Kumar

as Gomez