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Ashapurna Devi

Writing

Biography

Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In 1976, she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India, D.Litt. by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, in 1994.

Known For

Swarg
6.6

Living in a posh mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Sahabji, his wife sister Jyoti, two brothers, and a sister-in-law. Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj, who successfully schemes with Sahabji's two brothers, and takes over the prestigious mansion and vast business empire, leaving Sahabji virtually penniless, and devastated with the passing away of his wife. His brothers have now taken over the money, and his business. It is now up to a servant of the mansion, Krishna to set things right for Sahabji's household. How can a poor servant succeed against rich and powerful individuals?

Swarg

1990
Annadata
N/A

A rich businessman adopts Shankar into his family. Years later, Shankar proves his loyalty by saving his master's house Chowdhury Villa from his biggest rival Rudraprasad Sen.

Annadata

2002
Sashibabur Sansar
N/A

Sashibhushan who is the orthodox patriarch, has a tough time dealing with the youngsters who want to live life on their own.

Sashibabur Sansar

1959
Chaya Surya
8.0

Ghetu, a young woman with a dark complexion, is always compared to her beautiful sister (Sharmila Tagore). Her life changes for the worse after her lover dies and she has to face society's disdain.

Chaya Surya

1963
Aathma Bandhuvu
9.0

Parvathi is excited that her youngest daughter, Geeta, has received a marriage proposal from a rich family. However, things go awry when Parvathi's husband, Chandrasekharam, goes bankrupt.

Aathma Bandhuvu

1962
Captive
N/A

'Nazarband', the National Award-winning filmmaker's first outing in Hindi, is inspired by a short story by much- revered Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi and depicts the journey of two young people.

Captive

2020
Nabajanma
10.0

The story revolves around Basanthi who is constantly criticized by her in-laws for being childless. Her husband believes that she is having an affair with his sister's husband and plans to kill her.

Nabajanma

1956
Jog Biyog
10.0

The story revolves around the last life crisis of Jamini Mohan and his wife. After his retirement, Jamini Mohan and his wife Santoshini continued to be despised in the family of their earning sons. At this time, Gobinda, an orphan of a distant relative, became their mental hope. After facing various humiliations from their blood relationship Jamini Mohan died and as the mother of three sons, Santoshini became a burden to this family. Eventually, Gobinda became Santoshini's absolute refuge.

Jog Biyog

1953
Kalyani
7.0

A 1954 Bengali Drama Film directed by Nirendranath Lahiri.

Kalyani

1954
Chhoti Si Mulaqat
10.0

Shanker Choudhury's (Tarun Bose) mother (Pratima Devi), at the pleas of her dying husband, marries off his (Shanker's) daughter to a youth. Both the children are under-age and do not know nor understand that they have been married.

Chhoti Si Mulaqat

1967
Kanch Kata Hire
7.0

Subrata joins his father's business that he quits due to ideological differences. What awaits his fate now?

Kanch Kata Hire

1965
Agni Pariksha
10.0

Love story of Tapasi and Kiriti in the backdrop of social and cultural conflict regarding marriages and progressiveness.

Agni Pariksha

1954
Baala Bandhana
N/A

Orphaned as an infant, Ranga (played by Rajkumar) is brought up by his distant relative Chandrashekhar Rao Bahadur (Sampath) and his compassionate wife Parvathi (M Jayashree). Life takes a cruel turn for Chandrashekhar Rao when he loses all his wealth in share market. His daughter's marriage is called off, his sons attitude change and he is forced to send Ranga and Lakshmi out. How Ranga sets right the turmoil in the family and reunites them forms rest of the story.

Baala Bandhana

1971
Jog Biyog
8.0

The story revolves with the last life crisis of Jamini Mohan and his wife. After the retirement Jamini Mohan and his wife Santoshini continued to be despised in the family of their earning sons. At this time, Gobinda, an orphan of the distant relative, became their mental hope. After facing various humiliation from their blood relationship Jamini Mohan died and as the mother of three sons, Santoshini became a burden to this family. Eventually Gobinda became Santoshini's absolute refuge.

Jog Biyog

1984
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9.0

Sadhana was based on the novel ‘Chhinapatra’ by Ashapoorna Devi. The film was adjudged as 2nd Best Regional Film (Odia) and received President’s Silver Medal. Actor Sarat Pujari was co-producer of Sadhana. He also written dialogues under the pseudo name Shiladitya, assisted by Minati Mishra.

Sadhana

1964