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Partha Pratim Chowdhury

Partha Pratim Chowdhury

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Biography

Partha Pratim Chowdhury (1938—1996) was an Indian Bengali actor, director, screenwriter, dramatist and music director. He was widely appreciated as a director for Chaya Surya (1963) and Jadubansha (1974). He studied at the Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta. Along with other future luminaries of the Bengali theatre, Badal Sircar, Rudraprasad Sengupta, and Manoj Mitra, among others, he was initiated into the theatre world during his college years. He started a theatre group Sundaram in 1957. Later he moved on to filmmaking.

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Hotel Snow Fox

Mithu Mukherjee belonged to a poor family. Her father was suffering from a chronic disease. They didn't have enough money to buy his medicines. Her father (Asit Baran)'s friend had cheated him due to which they had to mortgage even their house to him. Mithu Mukherjee decided to help her family and came out of her house in search ofa job. At last she got a job in a company which however stopped its business within a few months' time. She then joined a hotel where she met Uttam Kumar. Uttam Kumar was a bar singer there. He was a singer in disguise and he used to help distressed women who were exploited by the so-called upper class rich people. Mithu Mukherjee (Khuku) was helped by Uttam Kumar who helped her family get her ancestral house back. At last Uttam Kumar gave all the secret details of those people to the police and took his leave.

Hotel Snow Fox

1976Movie
Agun

Heeru, Naren, and Chandranath were friends. From his college days, Chandranath had been aspiring and ambitious. He is also a man of strict principles in life. He leaves his brother and sister-in-law and goes away to gain immense power and knowledge. In the meantime, he marries and is blessed with a kid. However, Chandranath's quest to learn more drives him to leave his new family as well as he sets off to achieve new goals in life. He not only fails to fulfill his request but ends up losing his family too. On the other hand, Naren hails from a rich family and is a happy-go-lucky-natured man. He appreciates the finer aspects of life. He falls in love with a courtesan and brings her home. Caught between the two friends who have opposite ambitions in life, Heeru wonders which path would bring contentment in one's life. However, Heeru loses control of his life and slowly realizes that his life has become a mirror of Chandranath's life.

Agun

1962Movie