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{{Short description|1980 Bengali satirical comedy film by Tapan Sinha}}

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{{Infobox film
| name = Banchharamer Bagaan
| image = Banchharamer Bagaan (1980) poster.jpeg
| director = [[Tapan Sinha]]
{{Infobox | decat = yes | child = yes
| label1 = Based on
| data1 = ''Shajano Bagaan'' by [[Manoj Mitra]]
}}
| producer = Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty
| screenplay = Tapan Sinha
{{Infobox | decat = yes | child = yes
| label1 = Dialogues by
| data1 = Tapan Sinha Manoj Mitra
}}
| story = Manoj Mitra
| starring = [[Manoj Mitra]] [[Dipankar De]] [[Rabi Ghosh]] [[Nirmal Kumar]] [[Bhanu Banerjee]] [[Madhabi Mukherjee]] Bhishma Guhathakurata Debika Mukherjee
| music = Tapan Sinha
| cinematography = Bimal Mukherjee
| editing = Subodh Roy
| studio = D. K. Film Enterprises
| distributor = D. K. Film Enterprises
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1980|10|17}}
| runtime = 128 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
}}
'''''Banchharamer Bagaan''''' ({{IPA|bn|ban.t͡ʃʰa.ra.meɾ ba.ɡan}}; {{Translation|'''''Banchharam's garden'''''}}) is a 1980 [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language [[Satire (film and television)|satirical]] [[Comedy horror|comedy-horror]] film co-written and directed by [[Tapan Sinha]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=a.chatterji|first=shoma|title=The Cinema Of Tapan Sinha - An Introduction By Amitava Nag|url=https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/newsdetail/index/14/21011/the-cinema-of-tapan-sinha---an-introduction-by-amitava-nag|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.thecitizen.in|language=en-US|archive-date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113061540/https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/newsdetail/index/14/21011/the-cinema-of-tapan-sinha---an-introduction-by-amitava-nag|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Bancharamer Bagan (1980) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/bancharamer-bagan-33735|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629185805/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/bancharamer-bagan-33735|url-status=live|archive-date=29 June 2019|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Cinestaan}}</ref> Produced by Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty under the banner of D. K. Film Enterprises, the film is based on [[Manoj Mitra]]'s celebrated stage-play ''Shajano Bagaan''. It stars Mitra himself as Banchharam, an elderly frail peasant who outwits a tyrannical landlord attempting to seize his beloved garden by deceptively staying alive and healthy, despite having signed over his land in exchange for a monthly pension upon his promised death. [[Dipankar De]] plays [[Dual role|dual roles]] as the landlord and his son, alongside [[Madhabi Mukherjee]], [[Nirmal Kumar]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]], Bhishma Guhathakurata and Debika Mukherjee in the supporting roles, with [[Bhanu Banerjee]] and [[Rabi Ghosh]] in special appearances.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Bancharamer Bagan' - From 'Shonar Pahar' to 'Belashese': Bengali cinema's tribute to senior citizens|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/from-shonar-pahar-to-belashese-bengali-cinemas-tribute-to-senior-citizens/bancharamer-bagan/photostory/65386145.cms|access-date=2022-01-13|website=The Times of India|archive-date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113061112/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/from-shonar-pahar-to-belashese-bengali-cinemas-tribute-to-senior-citizens/bancharamer-bagan/photostory/65386145.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>

After Sinha watched the play in 1978, he immediately decided to adapt it into a film, with Mitra reprising the role from the play. ''Banchharamer Bagaan'' marks the first collaboration between Sinha and Mitra, and also the debut of the latter. Music of the film is composed by Sinha himself, while Bimal Mukherjee and Subodh Roy handled its cinematography and editing respectively.

''Banchharamer Bagaan'' was theatrically released on 17 October 1980, opening to highly positive response. It ran for over 210 days in theatres, emerging to be one of the highest-grossing Bengali films of the year. It attained a cult status over the years and is regarded as "one of the best comedy films" by ''[[The Times of India]]''. At the [[Filmfare Awards Bangla#1963-1985|18th Filmfare Awards East]], the film received several accolades, including Best Film, Best Director (Sinha) and Best Actor (Mitra).

''Banchharamer Bagaan'' was remade into [[Hindi]] as ''[[Isi Ka Naam Zindagi]]'' (1992) and into [[Marathi language|Marathi]] as ''[[Narbachi Wadi]]'' (2013).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apur Panchali - From 'Shonar Pahar' to 'Belashese': Bengali cinema's tribute to senior citizens|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/from-shonar-pahar-to-belashese-bengali-cinemas-tribute-to-senior-citizens/apur-panchali/photostory/65386131.cms|access-date=2021-04-26|website=The Times of India|archive-date=26 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426191517/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/from-shonar-pahar-to-belashese-bengali-cinemas-tribute-to-senior-citizens/apur-panchali/photostory/65386131.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ishan|date=2020-07-09|title=Bancharamer Bagan (1980) {{!}} Art House Cinema|url=https://arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bancharamer-bagan-1980/|access-date=2021-04-26|website=arthousecinema.in|language=en-US|archive-date=26 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426191519/https://arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bancharamer-bagan-1980/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="DasguptaDatta2018">{{cite book|author1=Rohit K. Dasgupta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YT9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|title=100 Essential Indian Films|author2=Sangeeta Datta|date=15 December 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-7799-1|pages=32–}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film revolves around the struggles of lonely aged persons. An elderly man becomes a one-man army against the corrupt society. There is an old peasant's garden, which the zamindar desperately want to occupy. Despite the continuous machinations and traps put forward by the zamindar, the aged, frail peasant Bancharam, in some way or the other, continues to live in his garden, and manages to maintain it as well.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ishan|date=2020-07-09|title=Bancharamer Bagan (1980) {{!}} Art House Cinema|url=https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bancharamer-bagan-1980/|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.arthousecinema.in|language=en-US|archive-date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113061140/https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bancharamer-bagan-1980/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Manoj Mitra]] as Banchharam
* [[Dipankar De]] in [[Dual role|dual roles]] as
** Chhakari Dutta, Panchkari's son and a landlord
** Nakari Dutta, Chhakari's son and an advocate
* [[Nirmal Kumar]] as Lawyer
* [[Madhabi Mukherjee]] as Zamindar's Wife
* [[Biplab Chatterjee]] in [[Dual role|dual roles]] as
** Sishir / Hontka, an aspiring film-producer
** Kontka
* Devika Mukherjee as Chumki
* Bhishma Guhathakurta as Gopinath
* [[Shambhu Bhattacharya]] as Chaubey Ji
* Premangshu Bose as Chumki's Father
* Ramen Roy Chowdhury as Hride, Nakari's nephew

=== Cameo appearances ===
* [[Bhanu Banerjee]] as Priest
* [[Rabi Ghosh]] as Doctor
==Special screening==
*[[Kolkata International Film Festival]] in 2024 for [[Manoj Mitra]] Tribute Section

== Remakes ==
Ratan Mukherjee of Rajlaxmi Pictures proposed to Sinha to remake the film in [[Hindi]], but the latter turned down it due to the creative differences, as the former had insisted Sinha to have [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] and [[Amitabh Bachchan]]. However, Mukherjee remade the film into Hindi under the title ''[[Isi Ka Naam Zindagi]]'' in 1992, with Kalidas as director. As per his previous plan, Pran played the lead, while [[Shakti Kapoor]] played the role of the landlord, replacing Bachchan who was in a hiatus at that time. It also starred [[Aamir Khan]] and [[Farah (actress)|Farha Naaz]] in the film, while it became a [[box-office bomb]]. In 2013, ''Banchharamer Bagaan'' was remade by [[Aditya Sarpotdar]] into [[Marathi language|Marathi]] as ''[[Narbachi Wadi]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-01-12 |title=Bengali classic Bancharamer Bagan now in Marathi |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/marathi/movies/news/bengali-classic-bancharamer-bagan-now-in-marathi/articleshow/16474560.cms |access-date=2026-04-21 |work=[[The Times of India]] |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* {{IMDb title|0310712}}

[[Category:1980 films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]
[[Category:1980 Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Tapan Sinha]]
[[Category:Indian drama films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language supernatural horror films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language comedy horror films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Bengali films remade in other languages]]

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