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Ganadevata

Ganadevata
Directed by Tarun Majumdar
Produced by Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal
Screenplay by Tarun Majumdar
Rajen Tarafdar
Arnab Majumdar (dialogue)
Based on Ganadevata (1942)
by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Starring Soumitra Chatterjee
Ajitesh Bannerjee
Samit Bhanja
Nilkantha Sengupta
Rabi Ghosh
Anup Kumar
Music by Hemanta Mukherjee
Cinematography Shakti Banerjee
Edited by Ramesh Joshi
Release date
  • 29 June 1978 (1978-06-29) (India)
Running time
172 min.
Country India
Language Bengali

Ganadevata (English: The People) is a 1978 Bengali drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar, based on a novel by same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Samit Bhanja, Nilkantha Sengupta, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar in lead roles. The epic novel is set in 1920's during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socio-economic structures, impact of industrialization and non-cooperation movement in rural Bengal . It had also won the writer Bandopadhyay, the 1966 Jnanpith Award.

At the 26th National Film Awards (1978), it won the award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and Best Child Artist Award for Kanchan De Biswas.



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