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Kumkum the Dancer

03/07/1940

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2hrs 22min

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STORY

A dance film idealising poverty made mainly to showcase Bose's talents. Labour leader Suryashankar is jailed for trade union activities and, when released, finds that his friend Jagdish has stolen his property and plagiarised his play Bhookh (Hunger). To take revenge on behalf of the poor, Suryashankar's daughter Kumkum (Bose) marries Jagdish's son Chandan (Bhattacharya). Later she collaborates in staging a play meant to expose Jagdish's evil past. The film's publicity slogan was 'She robbed her husband to feed the poor!'

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Sadhona Bose
  • Dhiraj Bhattacharya
  • Preeti Majumdar
  • Padmadevi
  • Moni Chatterjee

    Director

  • Modhu Bose

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Sagar Movietone

    Production Countries

  • India

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Sadhona Bose

    Kumkum

    Dhiraj Bhattacharya

    Chandan

    Preeti Majumdar

    Padmadevi

    Moni Chatterjee

    Shashadhar Chatterjee

    Binita Gupta

    Kamta Prasad

    Bhudo Advani

    Kayamali