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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bilat Ferat<br />
| image = Dhirendranath Ganguly.jpg<br />
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| caption = Dhirendranath Ganguly in film<br />
| director = [[Nitish Chandra Laharry]]<br>Dhirendranath Ganguly <small>(co-director)</small><br />
| producer = [[Dhirendra Nath Ganguly]]<br />
| writer =<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = [[Dhirendranath Ganguly]]<br>[[Manmatha Pal]]<br>[[Kunjalal Chakraborty]]<br>[[Sushilabala]]<br>[[Nripen Bose]]<br>[[Nitish Lahiri]]<br>[[Shishubala]]<br />
| music =<br />
| cinematography = [[Jyotish Sarkar]]<br />
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1921||}}<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = [[Silent film]]<br>Bengali intertitles<br />
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'''''Bilat Ferat''''' বিলেত ফেরত (England Returned) also known as ''Bilet Pherat'', is a 1921 Bengali silent film directed by [[Nitish Chandra Laharry]]<ref>[[IMDb]] : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011971/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt</ref> and produced by [[Dhirendra Nath Ganguly]]. A satirical comedy,<ref name="GokulsingDissanayake2013">{{cite book|author1=K. Moti Gokulsing|author2=Wimal Dissanayake|title=Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwGgF-rDucEC&pg=PT50|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-77291-7|page=50}}</ref> it is one of the earliest Bengali feature film, which marked the debut of Dhiren Ganguly as an actor. He also co-directed the film.<ref name="Rajadhyaksha">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1994-IA237|accessdate=8 September 2015|date=September 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-94325-7|page=1994}}</ref> It is the first Indian feature film having intimate kissing scenes. It was the first silent love-story (comedy included), which became a great hit. This film started a never-ending trail of love and romance stories in Indian movies. The Indian filmmakers incorporated in this film realistic love scenes, with kisses aplenty, as was the norm followed by their British and American counterparts. However, the Indian masses, while enjoying the British and American films, were certainly not comfortable with the forward Indian heroine and considered the stark depiction of passion as wayward. Dhirendra Nath Ganguli, the deputy collector of Barisal, produced this film and himself acted in it.<br />
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Bilat Ferat means "Foreign Returned" and foreign generally meant England at that time. The film was about Indians returning from abroad following an education and adapting pro-western attitudes in contrast to the conservatives in India who were opposed to change.<ref name="Raju2014">{{cite book|author=Zakir Hossain Raju|title=Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXDfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-60181-4|page=100}}</ref><br />
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*{{IMDb title|id=0011971|title=Bilet Pherat}}<br />
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