Ogo Bodhu Shundori

Ogo Bodhu Shundori (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈoɡo ˈbɔd̪ʱu ʃunˈd̪ɔri] transl. Hey Beautiful Bride) is a 1981 Bengali-language masala film directed by Salil Dutta. Produced and conceptualized by Kamal Bansal under the banner of R. D. B. & Co., the title of the film is taken from a Rabindra Sangeet of the same name. It stars Uttam Kumar, Ranjit Mallick, Moushumi Chatterjee and Sumitra Mukherjee in lead roles, with a supporting cast including Santosh Dutta, Bikash Roy, Haradhan Banerjee and Chinmoy Roy. It depicts Gagan, a phonetics professor who casually wagers his socialistic wife of teaching a poor monkey-showwoman to speak Bengali and English and also making her cultured with the society.

Written by Bibhuti Mukherjee, the film is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and George Cukor's American film My Fair Lady (1964). It marks the seventh collaboration between Dutta and Kumar. Music of the film is composed by Bappi Lahiri, with lyrics penned by Mukherjee. The cinematography of the film is handled by Bijoy Ghosh, while Baidyanath Chatterjee edited the film. It was predominantly shot in Kolkata and Mumbai, and is also known for showing the Kolkata Book Fair in a sequence.

In July 1980, when the filming was in the process, Kumar died suffering from heart attack and his lookalike Prabir Kumar was brought in to stand in for him for the final sections of the film and for the song "O Daddy, O Mummy". Because of the incompletion of dubbing his portions, Kumar's voice from the original footages was kept intact in the film, and his brother Tarun Kumar dubbed for him due to mechanical glitches in some scenes.

Ogo Bodhu Shundori theatrically released on 6 February 1981, after the languishment in production hell for seven months. It opened to highly positive response both critically and commercially. The soundtrack album of the film sold 8 million copies in West Bengal, also generally gaining a cult status among the audiences. It emerged as the highest-grossing Bengali film of 1981, running for over 26 weeks in theatres. The Times of India included the film in their list of "Bengali cinema's greatest comedy films".