Padma Nadir Majhi
| Padma Nadir Majhi পদ্মা নদীর মাঝি |
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DVD cover for Padma Nadir Majhi.
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| Directed by | Goutom Ghosh |
| Produced by | West Bengal Film Development Corporation |
| Written by |
Manik Bandopadhay (Novel) Goutom Ghosh (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Raisul Islam Asad Champa Utpal Dutt Rupa Gangooly Rabi Ghosh Humayun Faridi |
| Music by |
Goutom Ghosh Alauddin Ali |
| Cinematography | Goutom Ghosh |
| Edited by | Moloy Banerjee |
| Distributed by | NFDC |
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Release date
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16 May 1993 (India) |
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Running time
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126 minutes |
| Country |
India Bangladesh |
| Language | Bengali |
Padma Nadir Majhi (Bengali: পদ্মা নদীর মাঝি, English: Boatman of the River Padma or The Padma Boatman) (1993) is an Indo-Bangladesh joint production feature film directed by Goutom Ghosh from the novel of the same name, Manik Bandopadhyay's Padma Nadir Majhi.
Hossian Miya (Utpal Dutta) is a Bengali Muslim trader who offers his community an idealistic vision: He wants to establish a little utopia on an island (Moynadeep) in the Padma delta and offer them a better life there. It is apparent that Hossian Miya has a flourishing business there, because he has recently purchased a huge boat because of expanding business. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim. It is 1947, just before the partition of India, and the Hindu fisherman Kuber briefly accepts an offer by Hossain to ferry some of the community's cargo from the island. He would be fishing, except that the fish he usually catches have been driven away by a big storm.
In the process of getting the cargo, he gets to see what the colony is like and, even though he is fully aware of the gripes of a former colony member and the limitations of it, comes to share some of the utopian vision. When Kuber returns to his home and a variety of unfortunate events make it in his best interest to leave, he knows just where to go.
However, people who return from Moynadeep after working there has a different tale to narrate. Rasu (Sunil Mukherjee) and Aminuddin (Rabi Ghosh) say that Moynadeep is infested with lions and tigers, and there is forest all around. Rasu has fled from Moynadeep deserting his wife and children there. Aminuddin, too, refuses to go back to Moynadeep again. Kuber has a wife and daughter and was recently blessed with a child. His wife is beset with a leg deformity, and his daughter is grown up and engaged to a local man. Kuber goes to pay a visit to his relatives from his wife's side. On return, he brings along his sister-in-law Kapila (Roopa Ganguly) with a ton of small kids. Kapila was married but is now estranged from her husband. A sneaky amorous relationship develops between Kubir and Kapila. Staying with a deformed wife and coupled with amorous gestures from his alluring sister-in-law Kubir succumbs to her wishes of passion play. However, Kapila's husband re-appears and takes her away with him.
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