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Kshudhita Pashan 
Summary
Kshudhita Pashan is a Bengali drama film directed by Tapan Sinha[1] and produced by Hemen Ganguly based on an 1895 short story of Rabindranath Tagore in the same name (Eng: "Hungry Stones").[2][3][4] This film was released in 1960 and received National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. Music direction was done by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.[2][5]
Plot edit
A young tax collector is posted to a small town. He starts to reside in an abandoned old palace which is rumoured to be haunted. Local people try to warn him that whoever has attempted to stay there has either gone mad or died because the stones of the building are hungry. He realizes that a mysterious beautiful lady roams around the building at night.
Cast edit
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Chhabi Biswas
- Arundhati Devi
- Dilip Roy
- Padma Devi
- Robin Banerjee
- Arun Mukherjee
- Radhamohan Bhattacharya
References edit
- ^ Bhatia, Uday (4 July 2014). "Ghosts who act". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Poetry on the big screen". thehindu.com. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Eternal magic of Tagore's music, stories inspires filmmakers". deccanherald.com. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "NFDC to bring out DVD set of films based on Tagore's stories". Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Charge of the youth brigade at the 39th Patton Argus Open Quiz, with The Telegraph". telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
External links edit
- Kshudhita Pashan at IMDb
