| Producer | Sudhir Mukherjee |
|---|---|
| Director | Sudhir Mukherjee |
| Writer | Falguni Mukhopadhyay |
| Screenplay | Nripendrakrishna Chatterjee (Dialogues) |
| Starring | |
| Music | Hemanta Mukherjee Lyricist - Poet Bimal Chandra Ghosh |
| Cinematography | Deoji Bhai |
| Editing | Baidyanath Chatterjee |
| Studio | Production Syndicate |
| Distributor | Mehta Pictures |
| Released | 27 May 1955 |
| Runtime | 172 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Shap Mochan is a Bengali-language musical romance film directed and produced by Sudhir Mukherjee based on a novel Sandhyaraag of Falguni Mukhopadhyay. This film was released in 1955 under the banner of Production Syndicate starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in lead.[1][2] Music director of the film was Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay.[3]
Plot
Young Mahendra belongs to a family of musicians, but once the family is cursed by their teacher. Mahendra's elder brother becomes blind and to avoid the same fate he goes to Kolkata and lives in the house of his father's friend Umeshchandra. He gets romantically involved with Umeshchandra's daughter Madhuri. Madhuri tries to make Mahendra modern and pursue his musical career. In spite of having good singing ability, Mahendra refuses to accept this due to his family values. He leaves their home and takes shelter in Kolkata. But the curse strikes him also and he falls seriously ill.
Cast
- Uttam Kumar as Mahendra
- Suchitra Sen as Madhuri
- Pahari Sanyal as Debendra
- Kamal Mitra as Umeshchandra
- Bikash Roy
- Jiben Bose
- Amar Mullick
- Tulsi Chakraborty
- Gangapada Basu
- Suprobha Devi
- Tapati Ghosh
Production
At first director Sudhir Mukherjee wanted to Sachin Dev Barman as music director for the film but Barman rejected the offer to give time from his busy schedule. Then Hemanta Mukherjee who is in Mumbai that time he wanted to return to Kolkata showing any reason when he heard this news he immediately meet to Sudhir Mukherjee and signed for the film. This is marked beginning of Uttam Kumar Hemanta Kumar duo, but many people said this not the first time that Hemanta sing on Uttam's leap. They first worked in Sahajatri in 1951. But there is no footage available of Sahajatri. So Shapmochon officially recognized as their beginning.[4]
Soundtrack
| Artist | Hemanta Mukherjee |
|---|---|
| Released | 1955 |
| Recorded | 1954 |
| Studio | Production Syndicate |
| Length | 0:20:00 |
| Label | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa |
| Producer | Sudhir Mukheejee |
| Prev year | 1952 |
| Next year | 1956 |
The songs become very popular. Hemanta Mukherjee was the music director of the movie and composed tunes for the songs. Lyrics were written by Bimal Ghosh (as Kavi Bimal Chandra Ghosh).[5]
Reception
The film became a blockbuster hit and ran near 100 days in theater. The songs become popular and contributed a lot to the film's success. After the film, The Uttam-Hemanta combination became iconic and hugely successful and regarded as the most popular singer-actor duo in the history of Bengali Cinema.[6]
References
- ^ "Ten Bengali films featuring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen that are a must watch". The Times of India. Archived 4 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ "Shap Mochon (1955)". indiatimes.com. Archived 7 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Uttam Kumar - Suchitra Sen in SHAPMOCHAN". washingtonbanglaradio.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ Desk, IE Bangla Web. "হেমন্ত-উত্তম: তুলনাহীন জুটি, থাকলই বা কিছু কাঁটা" (in Bengali). bengali.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ "Shap Mochan (1955)". Archived 2 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ Desk, IE Bangla Web. "হেমন্ত-উত্তম: তুলনাহীন জুটি, থাকলই বা কিছু কাঁটা" (in Bengali). bengali.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
External links
- Shap Mochan at IMDb