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{{Infobox film
| name = Antony Firingee
| image =
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| director = Sunil Bannerjee
| producer =
| writer = Sunil Bannerjee
| starring = [[Uttam Kumar]]<br />[[Tanuja]]
| music = Anil Bagchi
| cinematography =
| editing =
| distributor =
| released = 6 October 1967
| runtime = 157 min.
| country = India
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| budget =
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'''''Antony Firingee''''' is a 1967 Indian [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[musical drama film]] directed by Sunil Bannerjee, starring [[Uttam Kumar]] and [[Tanuja]]. It is a biopic based on the life of [[Anthony Firingee]] ([[Hensman Anthony]]), a [[Bengali language]] folk poet of [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] origin.

Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Nirupoma. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.

After the film's release, the poet name became "famous".<ref>{{cite web| title = Mr & Mrs Antony Firingee|quote=made famous by Uttam Kumar in the film ''Antony Firingee''|url =http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130804/jsp/calcutta/story_17191286.jsp#.UhGrqtI3CgQ|work=The Telegraph|date=4 August 2013
| accessdate = 2013-08-19 }}</ref>

The film was noted for its music, sung by [[Manna Dey]] and [[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]], composed by Anil Bagchi & lyrics by [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]] and others.

==Plot==
[[Hensman Anthony]], commonly known as Antony Firingee became a Bengali language poet in the early part of the 19th century. The story revolves around his love for a courtesan Shakila, who he later marries and faces social ostracization.<ref name="Campbell2006">{{cite book|author=Russell Campbell|title=Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DQhKTEj9ZzYC&pg=PA182|year=2006|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-21253-7|page=182}}</ref>

==Cast==
*[[Uttam Kumar]] ... [[Anthony Firingee]]
*[[Tanuja]] ... Nirupoma
* Lolita Chatterjee ... Marina (as Lalita Chattopadhyay)
* [[Bhanu Bandopadhyay]] ... Haripada
* [[Jahor Roy]] ... Ananda Babu
* [[Asit Baran]] ... Bhola Moira
* [[Haridhan Mukherjee]] ... Thakurdas Singha (as Haridhan Mukhopadhyay)
* Haradhan Bannerjee ... Kelly Antony (as Haradhan Bandyopadhyay)
* Kamal Majumdar ... Ram Basu
* Mani Srimani ... Gorakshanath
*[[Chhaya Devi]] ... Antony's mother
*[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] ... Jogweswari
* Soma Chowdhury ... Amina
* [[Jiben Bose]]

==Soundtrack==
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[[Anil Bagchi]] is the music director of the film, while [[Aloknath Dey]] is the assistant music director. Many of the song was critically and commercially successful.

Lyricist [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]], Pranab Roy, Hensman Anthony, Bholanath Nayak, Thakurdas Singha.

Playback singers are [[Manna Dey]], [[Sandhya Mukherjee]], Adhir Bagchi, Alok Bagchi, Tarun Bandyopadhyay, Shyamal Chakraborty, Chhaya Dey, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Malabika Kanan, Salil Mitra, [[Manabendra Mukherjee]], Chitto Mukhopadhyay, Swapna Roy.

===Selected track list===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer(s)
|-
| 1
| "Aami Jamini Tumi Soshi He"
| Manna Dey
|-
| 2
| "Ghiri Ghiri Aai"
| Sandhya Mukherjee
|-
| 3
| "Ami Je Jalsaghare"
| Sandhya Mukherjee
|-
| 4
| "Aami Je Jalsaghare"
| Manna Dey
|-
| 5
| "Champa Chameli Golaperi"
| Manna Dey, Sandhya Mukherjee
|-
| 6
| "Tunhu Mamo Monopran Hey"
| Sandhya Mukherjee
|-
| 7
| "Maa Tui Aamay Daya Korbi"
| Manna Dey
|-
| 8
| "Keu Ba Karchhen Barristeri"
| Manna Dey, Adhir Bagchi
|-
| 9
| "Satya Bate Ami Jetete"
| Manna Dey, Adhir Bagchi
|-
| 10
| "Shuno He Antony"
| Manna Dey, Alok Bagchi
|-
|}

==Awards==
[[Uttam Kumar]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Actor]] at the 15th [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]] (1968) for his performances in ''Anthony Firingee'' and ''[[Chiriyakhana]]''.<ref name="firstaward">{{cite web | url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm15thNFAAward.aspx?PdfName=15NFA.pdf | title=National Awards for Films: Uttam Kumar (1967) | publisher=Dff.nic.in. Directorate of Film Festivals | date=25 November 1968 | accessdate=31 July 2011 | page=29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928071652/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm15thNFAAward.aspx?PdfName=15NFA.pdf | archive-date=28 September 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="National Awards Winners 1967: Complete list of winners of National Awards 1967">{{cite news|last1=The Times of India|first1=Entertainment|title=National Awards Winners 1967: Complete list of winners of National Awards 1967|work=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-awards/national-awards-winners/1967/108|accessdate=11 August 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324034914/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-awards/national-awards-winners/1967/108|archivedate=24 March 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0317088}}

{{Anthony Firingee}}
[[Category:1967 films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films featuring a Best Actor National Award-winning performance]]
[[Category:Indian biographical films]]
[[Category:Films set in the 19th century]]
[[Category:Films set in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1960s Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:1960s biographical films]]

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