Sonar Harin

Sonar Harin (transl. The Golden Deer) is a 1959 Indian Bengali-language action thriller spy film co-written and directed by Mangal Chakravarty.^[5] This film was written by Rashbehari Lal. The production company for this film is National Pictures. It was distributed by S.K. Films. The music for the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee.^[6] The film stars Uttam Kumar, Kali Bannerjee Supriya Choudhury in lead and this is the first film that Supriya Devi appears as a leading heroine.^[7] Others Bhanu Banerjee, Chhabi Biswas and Tarun Kumar played in supporting roles.^[8]

Sonar Harin
সোনার হরিণ
Directed by	Mangal Chakravarty
Written by	Rashbehari Lal
Story by	Rashbehari Lal
Produced by	Girija Shankar Dutta
Starring	Uttam Kumar Kali Bannerjee Supriya Choudhury[1] Bhanu Banerjee Chhabi Biswas Tarun Kumar Lakshmi Devi Mihir Bhattacharya
Cinematography	Ajoy Mitra
Edited by	Bishwanath Nayak
Music by	Hemanta Mukherjee[2] Gauriprasanna Majumdar (lyrics)
Production company	National Picturers
Distributed by	S.K. Films
Release date	8 October 1959 (1959-10-08) (India)
Running time	154 min.
Country	India[3]
Language	Bengali[4]

Plot

Captain Jayanta Chowdhary comes back gravely injured and is taken care of by his fiancé Kuntala, who is an air hostess. It takes a long time for Jayanta to recover and come out of the trauma. He is visited by Sunanda, his colleague's widowed wife. He holds himself responsible for Sunanda's husband Partho's death and returns his ring to her. Jayanta leaves for Calcutta abruptly and starts following art ground. An engineer by profession, Sandeep Mukherjee is forced to work for a smuggling gang run by Krisan Chand and Abdullah. He does this because he needs money for the treatment of his handicapped brother Beenu in Vienna. He often visits a bar where Ruby, his beloved stays. Soon the Intelligence Department headed by Ranjit Mitra starts tracing Sandeep's source of money. Jayanta helps them in the whole. It is found that Ruby had borrowed the money from Krishan Chand and given it to Sandeep. The police can't do anything because the transaction is recorded on paper. Jayanta now takes up the name of Arun Ray, a ground engineer and friend of Beenu. Sandeep's brother comes back. After recovery Sandeep invites Jayanta to his house where he discovers that Kuntala, then also in Calcutta, is Sandeep's sister. When Kuntala goes to visit him in his hotel, Jayanta breaks off the engagement. Meanwhile, Krishan Chand tells Sandeep that Arun is a spy and orders him to find out how much he knows about the gang. Sandeep comes home to find a broken Kuntala who tells him about her engagement being cancelled. Learning the name of her fiancé makes everything clear to him. He can't bear the fact that his sister would pay for his crime. He goes to Jayanta and is about to confess everything when he is shot by Abdullah. Following a gun fight, Jayanta shoots Abdullah dead. Sandeep confesses everything to Ranjit Mitra who records it before his death . Jayanta begs forgiveness from Shakuntala. The couple is reconciled. Krishan Chand has paid him a lot of money and fooled him into planting a bomb in a foreign chartered plane in which Jayanta and others were flying. It was a plot hatched by the opposition party of foreign country. He did this to pay for Beenu's treatment.

Cast

• Uttam Kumar^[9]
• Kali Bannerjee
• Supriya Choudhury^[10][11]
• Bhanu Banerjee
• Chhabi Biswas
• Tarun Kumar
• Lakshmi Devi
• Mihir Bhattacharya
• Kuntala Chatterjee
• Padmadevi
• Bipin Gupta
• Namita Sinha^[12]

Music

Sonar Harin
Soundtrack album by Hemanta Mukherjee
Released	1959
Recorded	1958
Studio	National Pictures
Length	0:09:20
Label	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Producer	Girija Shankar Dutta
Hemanta Mukherjee chronology
Marutirtha Hinglaj (1959) Sonar Harin (1959) Khaniker Atithi (1959)

Songs

No.	Title	Playback	Length
1.	"Ei Je Chander Alo"	Sandhya Mukherjee	3:41
2.	"Tomar Duti Chokh"	Geeta Dutt	3:02
3.	"Ei Mayabi Tithi"	Geeta Dutt	2:37
Total length:			9:20

All lyrics are written by Gauriprasanna Mazumder; all music is composed by Hemant Kumar

References

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2. "Sonar Harin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), an album by Hemant Kumar". spotify.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
3. "Five memorable Bengali film songs of Geeta Dutt". cinestaan.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
4. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. ISBN 9781135943189. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
5. "Sonar Harin". Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
6. "Sonar Harin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". deezer.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
7. "Padma Shri awardee Bengali actress Supriya Devi remembered on her death anniversary". uniindia.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
8. "Sonar Harin 1959 film VCD". induna.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
9. "Sonar Harin". filmweb.pl. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
10. "बांग्ला सिनेमा की अभिनेत्री सुप्रिया देवी का निधन, शोक" (in Hindi). prabhatkhabar.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
11. "Veteran Bengali actress Supriya Devi is dead". indiapost.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
12. "সুপ্রিয়া দেবী, নুসরত, নাদিয়া: জন্মদিনে তিন ভারতীয় অভিনেত্রী" (in Bengali). bengali.indianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

External links

• Sonar Harin at IMDb
• Sonar Harin at The Times of India