Kumkum the Dancer

Kumkum the Dancer

Movie 1940-03-07 2h 22m
★ 7.0 / 10 · 1 votes

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!'

Status
Released
Released
1940-03-07
Runtime
2h 22m
Studio
Sagar Movietone
Country
India
Links
IMDb, Letterboxd
Director
Modhu Bose
Cast
Sadhona Bose Sadhona Bose Kumkum Dhiraj Bhattacharya Dhiraj Bhattacharya Chandan Preeti Majumdar Preeti Majumdar Padmadevi Padmadevi Moni Chatterjee Moni Chatterjee
Shashadhar Chatterjee Shashadhar Chatterjee
Lalit Rai Lalit Rai Binita Gupta Binita Gupta Kamta Prasad Kamta Prasad Bhudo Advani Bhudo Advani Kayamali Kayamali
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