Bagh Bondi Khela
1975 Bengali political action thriller film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bagh Bondi Khela (English: The Caged Tiger Game) is a 1975 Indian Bengali language political action-crime thriller film co-written and directed by Pijush Basu.[2] Produced by Ashima Bhattacharya, the film is based on a novel of the same name written by Prafulla Roy. It stars Uttam Kumar, Partho Mukherjee, Supriya Devi and Mahua Roy Chowdhury in lead roles, while Tarun Kumar, Asit Baran, Ashim Kumar, Tarun Mitra, Dilip Bose, Kalyani Mondal and Kshudiram Bhattacharya played supporting roles.[3] The soundtrack of the film was composed by Dipankar Chattopadhyay, making his debut as a music director in Bengali Cinema. The film plots revolves around Bhabesh Banerjee, a rich businessman, who all on a sudden calls his son Rajesh and gifts all his properties him to contest in the election from Ranipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and to gain his fame in the field of politics. But Rajesh, who stays separate from his father and knows about his character, declines all the things and later gets convinced by his father. Eventually coming to know about his father's true identity behind the masked face of a loyal political leader and businessman, he informs Kolkata police to arrest Bhabesh. But Bhabesh commits suicide as he never wanted to bow his head down to defeat.
Bagh Bondi Khela | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Directed by | Pijush Basu |
Written by | Prafulla Roy Pijush Basu (screenplay) |
Based on | Bagh Bondi Khela by Prafulla Roy |
Produced by | Asima Bhattacharya[1] |
Starring | Uttam Kumar Supriya Devi Partho Mukherjee Mahua Roychoudhury |
Cinematography | Ganesh Bose |
Edited by | Baidyanath Chatterjee |
Music by | Dipankar Chattopadhyay Asima Mukherjee (background score) |
Production company | Pompy Films |
Distributed by | Bishwajit Films |
Release date |
|
Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
This movie is believed to be Uttam Kumar’s best appearance as an antagonist.[4][5][6]