Basanta Bilap

1973 Indian film
  • 1973 (1973) (India)
Running time
117 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageBengali

Basanta Bilap is a 1973 Indian Bengali language romantic comedy film directed by Dinen Gupta, based on a story by Bimal Kar.[1][2]

Plot

The story revolves around a group of girls (4 of them are focussed mainly), all boarders of a working ladies' hostel Basanta Bilap, and a group of 4 boys from the neighborhood, a series of hilarious clashes between them eventually leading to their romance.

Cast

  • Soumitra Chatterjee as Shyam Sundar Bose aka Shyam, leader of the boys
  • Aparna Sen as Anuradha Singha aka Radha, leader of the girls
  • Rabi Ghosh as Gupto
  • Kajal Gupta as Parbati aka Paro
  • Anup Kumar as Lalit aka Lalu
  • Sumitra Mukherjee as Nabanita aka Nita
  • Chinmoy Roy as Siddheswar Bandapadhyay aka Sidhu
  • Sibani Bose as Aalo Ray
  • Amarnath Mukherjee as Ajay, Lalu's elder brother
  • Kanika Majumdar as Ajay's wife, and a mediator between the two groups
  • Tarun Kumar Chatterjee as Dr. Girija Sapui, a homeopathy doctor
  • Gita Dey as Sidhu's Aunty(Kakima)
  • Haridhan Mukhopadhyay as the tenant/landlord of Basanta Bilap

Soundtrack

Basanta Bilap
Soundtrack album

All music is composed by Sudhin Dasgupta.[3]

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Ami Miss Calcutta"Arati Mukhopadhyay 
2."Agun Legeche Legeche"Manna De, Rabi Ghosh, Chinmoy Roy 
3."O Shayam Jakhan Takhan"Arati Mukhopadhyay, Sujata Mukherjee 
4."Ek Charatei Thanda"Arati Mukhopadhyay 

References

  1. ^ "Aparna Sen's 7 most memorable Tollywood performances". The Times of India.
  2. ^ "Basanta Bilap". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Gaana: Basanta Bilap songs".

External links

  • Basanta Bilap at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata