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'''''Adarsha Hindu Hotel''''' (''Ideal Hindu Hotel'')<ref name="Ray2015">{{cite book|last=Ray|first=Utsa|title=Culinary Culture in Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDXJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA56|date=5 January 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-04281-0|pages=56–}}</ref> is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] novel written by [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]. The novel was first published in 1940.<ref name="Caṭṭopādhyāẏa1994">{{cite book|last=Caṭṭopādhyāẏa|first=Sunīlakumāra|title=Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyaya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kp8WZ5a34NQC&pg=PA53|date=1 January 1994|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-578-7|pages=53–}}</ref><ref name="GeorgeAkademi1992">{{cite book|last1=George|first1=K. M.|last2=Akademi|first2=Sahitya|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvpjAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-506-0|page=112}}</ref><ref name=shobdoneer>{{cite web|title=হাজারি ঠাকুরেরই….."আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল" |url=http://www.shobdoneer.com/zanika/31067 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130163104/http://www.shobdoneer.com/zanika/31067 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2014 |website=www.shobdoneer.com |publisher=Shobdoneer |accessdate=2 January 2016 |trans-title=Hajari Thakur ... Adarsha Hindu Hotel |language=bn }}</ref>

== Plot ==
Hajari Thakur, a middle-aged [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[Brahmin]] is the male protagonist of the novel. He works as a cook in a hotel owned by Bechu Chakraborty near [[Ranaghat]] railway station. Here customers are often cheated and Padma, a maid at the establishment, steals the hotel's food. Hajari is strictly against these, but being just a cook, he does not have right to say anything. Here he is regularly mocked and insulted by Padma, who, though only a maid, is the owner's paramour and has immense influence over him. Hajari dreams to start his own hotel, but for that he needs Rs.200. Kusum is a young widow, whom Hajari considers as his daughter. One day utensils of Hajari's shop are stolen and police arrests Hajari. Following this incident, he loses his job.

After getting a loan from Kusum and Atashi, a girl from his village, Hajari starts his own hotel. Here he works hard with dedication and sincerity. In just a year his hotel becomes the most popular hotel of the area. Two other hotels of the area: one of Bechu Chakraborty and another of Jadu Banerjee almost get shut down. Hajari also gets a railway tender to manage a government-run hotel in the railway platform. At the end of the novel, Hazari signs a contract to manage a large hotel and goes to [[Mumbai|Bombay]]. Before leaving, he appoints Bechu Chakraborty (whose own hotel was sealed recently) as a manager of the market area hotel. He also gives Padma a job, who used to insult him every now and then.

== Adaptations ==
In 1957 a [[Bengali film Industry|Bengali film]] ''[[Adarsha Hindu Hotel (film)|Adarsha Hindu Hotel]]'' was made based on this novel. The film was directed by Ardhendu Sen.<ref name=Gomolo>{{cite web|title=Adarsha Hindu Hotel (1957)|url=http://www.gomolo.com/adarsha-hindu-hotel-movie/13614|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=2 January 2016}}</ref> In 1989, a 13 episodes television serial was also made by director [[Raja Sen]] based on the novel. Actor [[Manoj Mitra]] played the role of Hajari thakur.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Raja Sen (Film Director)|url=https://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/adver/107768.html|access-date=2022-01-12|website=www.calcuttayellowpages.com}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1940 novels]]
[[Category:Bengali-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novels]]

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