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Basic Info
Release: October 10, 1936

Grihadaha

1936
Overview

The poor but educated Mahim and his childhood friend, the rich but conservative Suresh, both fall in love with the same woman, the liberated Achala. Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh. Her smoldering unhappiness takes the form of resentment towards the orphaned Mrinal, raised by Mahim's father, and receives a dramatic visual embodiment when their house burns down. Mahim falls ill, is rescued by Suresh, and nursed back to health by Achala. On a train (a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life) to a health resort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce, Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to temptation and elopes with Achala. At the end of the film, there is a dubious reconciliation as Achala is shown following Mahim's 'good' traditionalism with Sharatchandra's barely concealed hostility towards Achala's liberated Brahmo Samaj upbringing.

Genres
Drama
Production Countries
  • India
Spoken Languages
  • Bengali bn
  • Hindi hi

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Cast
P.C. Barua
P.C. Barua
Mahim
Prithviraj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor
Suresh (Hindi version)
Krishna Chandra Dey
Krishna Chandra Dey
Jamuna Barua
Achala
Molina Devi
Molina Devi
Mrinal
Ahi Sanyal
Biswanath Bhaduri
Miss Harimati
Amar Mullick
Indu Mukherjee
Boken Chattopadhyay
Anupam Ghatak
Crew
P.C. Barua
P.C. Barua
Director
Pankaj Mullick
Pankaj Mullick
Music
Rai Chand Boral
Rai Chand Boral
Music
P.C. Barua
P.C. Barua
Screenplay
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