| Nadi Theke Sagare | |
| Director: | Arabinda Mukhopadhyay |
| Producer: | Sitalamata Pictures[1] |
| Story: | Prasanta Chowdhury |
| Music: | Hemanta Mukherjee |
| Editing: | Subodh Ray |
| Released: | [2] |
| Runtime: | 135 min. |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Bengali |
Nadi Theke Sagare (Bengali: নদী থেকে সাগরে) is a 1978 Bengali feature film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[3] The film was written by Prasanta Chowdhury.[4] The screenplay was written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[5] It revolves around a prostitute who struggles to get her daughter married to a decent man.[6] It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Mithun Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar.[7] [8] [9] [10] Debashree Roy was credited as Rumki Roy in the film.[11] The music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukherjee with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.[12]
This is the film where Debashree Roy, for the first time played a leading role.[13] It was the first film where Mithun Chakraborty and Debasree Roy collaborated together.[14] She played Champa, the unfathered daughter of Sohagi played by Sandhya Roy, and had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given.[15] She drew critical favour for her gaze in the film. Soumitra Chatterjee and Ajitesh Banerjee won critical favour for their performance in the film.[16] The film was a major success at box office.[17] [18]
Sohagi is a prostitute who attempts to commit suicide as she has been deceived by a man whom she loved. She is saved by Shyamapada who is a priest. She returns to Basak Lane where she works as a prostitute. She gives birth to a daughter named Champa. When Champa grows up, her mother Kusum insists that she be a prostitute just like Sohagi but she refuses her mother's proposal stating that she wants Champa to marry Sagar.