Drishtidan

Drishtidan
Directed byNitin Bose
Written byRabindranath Tagore
Screenplay bySajanikanta Das
(Dialogues)
Based onDrishtidan by Rabindranath Tagore
Produced bySunanda Bannerjee
StarringAsit Baran
Sunanda Bannerjee
Krishnachandra Dey
Chhabi Biswas
Ketaki Dutta
Uttam Kumar
Sandhyarani
CinematographyRadhu Karmakar
Edited byKali Raha
Music byRabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya
Production
company
S.B Production
Release date
  • 31 December 1948 (1948-12-31)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Drishtidan (Bengali: দৃষ্টিদান, Donating Eyes ) (1948) is an Indian Bengali feature film directed by Nitin Bose. Based on Rabindranth Tagore's story of the same name, the film narrates the evolving relationship of a blind woman with her husband. Legendary actor Uttam Kumar debuted in this film, who later beca one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian Cinema and the most popular and successful film stars in the history of Bengali Cinema. In this film Kumar played as a child artist of the hero Asit Baran's role. Kumar worked in this film as his birth name Arun Kumar Chatterjee. The film became a flop at the box office