Drishtidan
| Drishtidan | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nitin Bose |
| Written by | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Screenplay by | Sajanikanta Das (Dialogues) |
| Based on | Drishtidan by Rabindranath Tagore |
| Produced by | Sunanda Bannerjee |
| Starring | Asit Baran Sunanda Bannerjee Krishnachandra Dey Chhabi Biswas Ketaki Dutta Uttam Kumar Sandhyarani |
| Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar |
| Edited by | Kali Raha |
| Music by | Rabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya |
Production company | S.B Production |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
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