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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bandie<br />
| image = Bandie (1978) film poster.jpeg<br />
| caption = Bengali poster of ''Bandie''<br />
| director = Alo Sircar<br />
{{Infobox | decat = yes | child = yes<br />
| label1= Adapted from<br />
| data1 = ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'' ({{small|novel}}) by [[Anthony Hope]]<br />''[[Jhinder Bondi]]'' ({{small|1961 film}})<br />
}}<br />
| screenplay = [[Jainendra Jain (screenwriter)|Jainendra Jain]]<br />Alo Sircar<br />Ashok Ghoshal<br />
{{Infobox | decat = yes | child = yes<br />
| label1= Dialogues by<br />
| data1 = '''Bengali:'''<br />Salil Sen<br />Ashok Ghoshal<br />'''Hindi:'''<br />[[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]]<br />
}}<br />
| story = Alo Sircar<br />Ashok Ghoshal<br />F. C. Mehra<br />
| producer = F. C. Mehra<br />
| starring = [[Uttam Kumar]]<br />[[Utpal Dutt]]<br />[[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]]<br />[[Sulakshana Pandit]]<br />[[Amrish Puri]]<br />[[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]]<br />
| cinematography = Pradeep Pai<br />
| editing = Pran Mehra<br />
| music = [[Shyamal Mitra]]<br />
| studio = Eagle Films<br />
| distributor = Eagle Films<br />
| released = {{Film date|1978|03|10|Hindi|ref1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chowdhury |first=Sayandeb |date=2021-07-24 |title=Why Bengali cinema's colossus Uttam Kumar had a rough time in the Hindi film industry |url=https://scroll.in/reel/1000964/why-bengali-cinemas-colossus-uttam-kumar-had-a-rough-time-in-the-hindi-film-industry |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}}</ref>|1978|04|14|Bengali|ref2=<ref>{{cite news |title=''Bandie'' (1978 film) |url=https://www.bengalfilmarchive.com/filmography-details.php?t=MTQwNg== }}</ref>|df=y}}<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />[[Hindi language|Hindi]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Bandie''''' is a 1978 Indian bilingual [[swashbuckler film|swashbuckler]] [[Action film|action]] film simultaneously shot in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Hindi]] languages,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shelomit |date=2022-10-11 |title=Bandie (1978) |url=https://rekhassousaphone.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/bandie-1978/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Rekha's Sousaphone |language=en}}</ref> co-written and directed by Alo Sircar. Produced by F. C. Mehra under the banner of Eagle Films,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bandie Movie (1978) {{!}} Release Date, Cast, Trailer, Songs, Streaming Online at Netflix |url=https://www.digit.in/digit-binge/movies/bandie-5868.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.digit.in |language=en}}</ref> the film stars [[Uttam Kumar]] in [[dual role]]s, alongside an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Utpal Dutt]], [[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]], [[Sulakshana Pandit]], [[Amrish Puri]], [[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]], [[Iftekhar]], [[Madan Puri]] and [[Prema Narayan]], with [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] and [[Padma Khanna]] in special appearances.<br />
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The film is partially adapted from [[Anthony Hope]]'s 1894 novel ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', and had some plot similarities with the 1961 Bengali film ''[[Jhinder Bondi]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-23 |title=Uttam Kumar: Leaving a Mark in his Few Hindi Films {{!}} By Peeyush Sharma {{!}} Silhouette |url=https://learningandcreativity.com/silhouette/uttam-kumar-hindi-films/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Silhouette Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> also starring Kumar.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-22 |title=Bandi (1978) - Shyamal Mitra - Listen to Bandi songs/music online - MusicIndiaOnline |url=https://mio.to/album/Bandi |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=web.archive.org |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222101910/https://mio.to/album/Bandi |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film marks the second collaboration between Sircar and Kumar after ''[[Chhoti Si Mulaqat]]'' (1967), and the Bengali debuts of Khan, Puri and Bindu. The screenplays of the two versions were written by Sircar, Ashok Ghoshal and Jayanendra Jain. Dialogues were written by Salil Sen and Ghoshal for the Bengali version and [[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]] for the Hindi version. Music of the film was composed by [[Shyamal Mitra]], with lyrics penned by [[Gauriprasanna Mazumder]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] for the Bengali version and [[Indeevar]] for the Hindi version. Pradeep Pai handled its cinematography, while Pran Mehra edited the film.<br />
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''Bandie'' theatrically released with its Hindi version on 10 March 1978,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chowdhury |first=Sayandeb |date=2021-07-24 |title=Why Bengali cinema's colossus Uttam Kumar had a rough time in the Hindi film industry |url=https://scroll.in/reel/1000964/why-bengali-cinemas-colossus-uttam-kumar-had-a-rough-time-in-the-hindi-film-industry |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}}</ref> while with its Bengali version on 14 April 1978, coinciding with [[Pohela Boishakh]]. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its cast performances, songs, action sequences and technical aspects, but criticism for the film's plot and screenplay. It ran for over 35 weeks in [[West Bengal]] and became hit at the box office, but bombed in Hindi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ray Chaudhuri |first=Shantanu |title=Uttam Kumar: Why the Bengal's megastar could never become a national star |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/bengali-film-superstar-uttam-kumars-hindi-film-career-decoded/cid/1876240 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] |quote=Raj Kapoor had offered him Sangam, but Uttam Kumar, at the height of his stardom, was unwilling to play what he saw as the film’s second lead (Rajendra Kumar eventually played the role).}}</ref> The film emerged as the [[List of Indian Bengali films of 1978|third highest grossing Bengali film of 1978]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bandie |url=https://www.cinemaazi.com/film/bandie |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Cinemaazi |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://watch.plex.tv/movie/bandie |title=Bandie |date=1978-03-10 |language=en |access-date=2025-03-02 |via=watch.plex.tv}}</ref> ''Bandie'' was remade into [[Telugu language|Telugu]] as ''[[Kaksha]]'' in 1980.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Maharaj Brajvan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bharatpur, along with his wife, Badi Rani, but have been unable to conceive for Bharatpur, and have no choice but to leave its reigns with Brajvan's widowed cousin, Vikram, and his son, Kanchan. When Vikram finds out that Badi Rani is pregnant, he plots to first sully her character by having her abducted, then shunned by Brajvan, and then decides to have her killed. But her killer has a change of heart and lets her live. She gives birth to a son, names him Bhola, and starts living a simple lifestyle in a Mandir with the help of its Poujari. Years later Vikram finds out she is alive and kills her, as well the Pujari and the Pujari's son. Bhola witnesses this, manages to escape, starts to live with a poor widow, grows up uneducated, and makes a living through crime. After a heist at Ramdas' residence, he goes on the run from the Police and ends up near Bharatpur where he is forcibly taken in by Senapati Raghuvir Singh and asked to pose as his look-alike Yuvraj Uday Singh, who is a womanizer and alcoholic, has been missing for several days, and to prevent Kanchan being crowned the Maharaj. Bhola agrees to this charade, meets Uday's future fiancée, Rajkumari Radha of Rampur, as well as her ravishing assistant, Krishna, rescues her and both fall in love much to the chagrin of Kanchan who wants to wed Radha. Little does Bhola know that it is Kanchan who has lured Uday, by first getting him seduced by Vimla, and is now holding him prisoner in a dungeon, has plans to kill him on his birthday, and then expose Bhola as a fraud and eventually have him killed too.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
{{cast listing|<br />
* [[Uttam Kumar]] in [[dual role]] as<br />
** Bhola, a thief: Brajvan and Badi Rani's eldest and lost son; Radha's love interest<br />
*** Vishal Desai (credited as Master Bittoo) as Young Bhola<br />
** Yuvraj Uday B. Singh: the king of Bharatpur; Brajvan and Badi Rani's younger son; Bhola's twin brother<br />
* [[Sulakshana Pandit]] as Rajkumari Radha S. Singh: Sujan's daughter; the princess of Rampur<br />
* [[Utpal Dutt]] as Vikram Singh, Brajvan's younger brother<br />
* [[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]] as Kanchan Singh, Vikram's son<br />
* [[Amrish Puri]] as Ananda, Kanchan's right-hand man <br />
* [[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]] as Bimala, Ananda's love interest <br />
* [[Satyen Kappu]] as Maharaj Brajvan Singh; Bhola and Uday's father <br />
* [[Madan Puri]] as the Diwan of Bharatpur <br />
* [[Iftekhar]] as Senapati Raghuveer Singh, the Royal Commander of Bharatpur <br />
* [[Indrani Mukherjee]] as Badi Rani <br />
* Amarnath Mukherjee (credited as Amar Nath) as Raja Sujan Singh, the King of Rampur<br />
* [[Tarun Ghosh]] as Chandravadan, the spy of Bharatpur <br />
* [[Prema Narayan]] as Krishna <br />
* Manik Dutt as Ramdas<br />
* [[Asit Sen (actor)|Asit Sen]] <br />
* Chandrima Bhaduri as Bhola's foster mother<br />
* [[Shivraj]] as Pujari <br />
* [[Raju Shrestha]] as Pujari's son<br />
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=== Special appearances ===<br />
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as a dancer in the song "Ei Jiboner Daam Je Onek" (Bengali) / "Honth Bhale Inkaar Kare" (Hindi)<br />
* [[Padma Khanna]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
{{Infobox album<br />
| name = Bandie<br />
| type = soundtrack<br />
| longtype = to ''Bandie''<br />
| artist = [[Shyamal Mitra]]<br />
| released = '''Bengali:'''<br />{{Start date|df=y|1978|12|31}}<br />'''Hindi:'''<br />{{Start date|df=y|1978|12|03}}<br />
| recorded = 1977–78<br />
| genre = [[Feature film soundtrack]]<br />
| length = '''Bengali:'''<br />{{Duration|m=23|s=26}}<br />'''Hindi:'''<br />{{Duration|m=24|s=53}}<br />
| producer = Shyamal Mitra<br />
| prev_title = [[Ananda Ashram]]<br />
| prev_year = 1977<br />
| year = 1978<br />
| next_title = [[Nishan (1978 film)|Nishan]]<br />
| next_year = 1978<br />
| chronology = Shyamal Mitra<br />
}}<br />
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Songs and score of the film are composed by [[Shyamal Mitra]]. [[Gauriprasanna Mazumder]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] penned the Bengali lyrics, while [[Indeevar]] penned the Hindi lyrics.<br />
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=== Bengali ===<br />
{{Track listing<br />
| headline = Track listing<br />
| extra_column = Singer(s)<br />
| total_length = 23:26<br />
| title1 = Ke Bole Bijli Shudhu<br />
| length1 = 3:32<br />
| lyrics1 = Gauriprasanna Mazumder<br />
| extra1 = [[Asha Bhosle]]<br />
| title2 = Mone Hoy Swarge Achhi<br />
| length2 = 3:17<br />
| lyrics2 = Gauriprasanna Mazumder<br />
| extra2 = [[Kishore Kumar]]<br />
| title3 = Ei Jiboner Daam Je Onek<br />
| length3 = 4:59<br />
| lyrics3 = Gauriprasanna Mazumder<br />
| extra3 = Asha Bhosle<br />
| title4 = Ogo Saathi Go<br />
| length4 = 6:20<br />
| lyrics4 = Gauriprasanna Mazumder<br />
| extra4 = [[Shyamal Mitra]],<br />[[Sulakshana Pandit]]<br />
| title5 = Mone Na Rong Lagle<br />
| length5 = 5:18<br />
| lyrics5 = Salil Chowdhury<br />
| extra5 = Kishore Kumar,<br />Asha Bhosle<br />
}}<br />
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=== Hindi ===<br />
{{Track listing<br />
| headline = Track listing<br />
| extra_column = Singer(s)<br />
| total_length = 24:53<br />
| title1 = Dil Use Dungi<br />
| length1 = 3:18<br />
| extra1 = Asha Bhosle<br />
| title2 = Hath Mein Jaam Na Loon<br />
| length2 = 4:47<br />
| extra2 = Kishore Kumar<br />
| title3 = Honth Bhale Inkaar Kare<br />
| length3 = 5:10<br />
| extra3 = Asha Bhosle<br />
| title4 = Jise Yaar Ka Sachcha Pyaar Mile<br />
| length4 = 6:22<br />
| extra4 = Kishore Kumar,<br />Sulakshana Pandit<br />
| title5 = Rang Na Mann Rang Mein Agan<br />
| length5 = 5:16<br />
| extra5 = Kishore Kumar,<br />Asha Bhosle<br />
}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* {{IMDb title|id=tt1219315|title=Bandie}}<br />
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/bandie|Bandie}}<br />
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