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{{short description|1962 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Bipasha
| image =
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| director = [[Agradoot]]
| producer =
| writer = Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
| starring = [[Uttam Kumar]] <br /> [[Suchitra Sen]]
| music = [[Robin Chatterjee]]
| editing =
| released = {{Film date|1962|01|01|df=y}}
| runtime = 133 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
}}

'''''Bipasha''''' is a 1962 Indian [[Bengali-language]] [[drama film]] starring [[Uttam Kumar]] and [[Suchitra Sen]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=staff|title=Bipasha (1962)|url=http://www.nthwall.com/be/movie/Bipasha-1962/9765400374|publisher=Nth Wall|accessdate=27 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024131908/http://www.nthwall.com/be/movie/Bipasha-1962/9765400374|archive-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bipasha (1962)|url=http://www.gomolo.com/bipasha-movie/13826|website=Gomolo|accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> and directed by [[Agradoot]].<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|author3=Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA40|date=10 July 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|pages=40–}}</ref> The film is based on a novel titled "[https://bdebooks.com/books/bipasha-by-tarashankar-bandopadhyay/ Bipasha]"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bipasha By Tarashankar Bandopadhyay - PDF Bangla Book|url=https://bdebooks.com/books/bipasha-by-tarashankar-bandopadhyay/|access-date=2021-02-11|language=en-US}}</ref> by Sri [[Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay|Tarashankar Bandyopadhay]].

The story fleetingly describes the horror of riots in West Pakistan during the time of Partition of India.<ref name="Gera(eds)">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/70-years-later-survivors-recall-the-horrors-of-india-pakistan-partition/2017/08/14/3b8c58e4-7de9-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html</ref> Bipasa was described as a victim of that riot in the film. However, the film deviates from the original novel and avoids describing Bipasha as a gang rape victim by Pakistani Islamist rioters.

It is one of the many hit films in which Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen worked as a pair. The other cast members included [[Chhabi Biswas]], [[Chhaya Devi|Chhaya Deb]]<nowiki/>i, [[Pahari Sanyal]], [[Jiben Bose]] and [[Tulsi Chakraborty|Tulsi Chakrabarti]].<ref name="g">{{cite web|title=Movies of Uttam Kumar & Tulsi Chakraborty|url=http://www.gomolo.com/celeb/uttam-kumar-and-tulsi-chakraborty-movies-list/1250/37406|website=www.golomolo.com|accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref>

==Plot==
The storyline goes when Dibyendu Chattopadhyay (Uttam Kumar) the young engineer meets Bipasha Bhattacharya (Suchitra Sen) in today's Maithon. Their acquaintance soon reaches a stage when the young couple decide to get married. However, on the night of her marriage to Dibyendu the latter fails to turn up due to a message sent to him by his uncle. Bipasha finds out Dibyendu's uncle and tracks him to Allahabad. Bipasha later finds that there were allegations against the moral character of Dibyendu's mother (Chhaya Devi).

The film revolves around the story of redemption of honour of Dibyendu's mother's in the eyes of society. It became known by the end of the film that Dibyendu's father had been in an affair with and thereafter married an English girl. To save himself from being imprisoned, he alleged that his wife (Dibyendu's mother) was unfaithful, and refused to acknowledge his own son (Dibyendu) as legitimate.

==Cast==
*[[Suchitra Sen]] as Bipasha Bhattacharya
*[[Uttam Kumar]] as Dibyendu Chattopadhyay
*[[Chhabi Biswas]] as Swamiji alias Dibyendu's father
*[[Chhaya Devi|Chhaya Debi]] as Dibyendu's mother
*[[imdbname:0611541|Nitish Mukherjee]] as Maternal Uncle to Dibyendu
*[[Pahari Sanyal]] as Barrister, a friend of Dibyendu's father
*[[Tulsi Chakraborty|Tulsi Chakrabarti]] as Paan Shop Owner
*[[Jiben Bose]] as Dibyendu's co-worker and a friend

==Reception==
In an article honoring the actors 35 years after Uttam Kumar's death, ''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote "Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar heralded the golden era of Bengali cinema", and listed ''Bipasha'' as among their most popular films.<ref name="Indian Express">{{cite news|last1=Chatterji|first1=Shoma A.|title=the Eternal Hero|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-eternal-hero/|accessdate=27 October 2014|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|date=11 July 2014}}</ref> ''[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]'' listed it among the duo's "string of memorable hits",<ref name="The Telegraph">{{cite news|last1=staff|title=Suchitra Sen: Bengali cinema's Queen of Hearts|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140117/jsp/frontpage/story_17833534.jsp#.VE5g_yKoo6Z|accessdate=27 October 2014|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]|date=17 January 2014}}</ref> and when speaking the two as box office draws, ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]'' listed at as among their biggest hits.<ref name="The Pioneer">{{cite news|last1=Chowdhury|first1=Maitreyee B|title=NO ORDINARY LOVE|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity/no-ordinary-love.html|accessdate=27 October 2014|publisher=[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]|date=18 January 2014}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
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| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Robin Chatterjee]]
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{{Track listing
| headline = Songs
| extra_column = Playback
| all_lyrics = [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]]
| all_music = [[Robin Chatterjee]]

| title1 = Ami Swapne Tomay
| extra1 = [[Sandhya Mukherjee]]
| length1 = 3:17

| title2 = Klantir Path
| extra2 = [[Sandhya Mukherjee]]
| length2 = 3:10

| title3 = Rajani Pohalo
| extra3 = [[Sandhya Mukherjee]]
| length3 = 3:02
}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149883/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_16 ''Bipasha''] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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[[Category:1960s Bengali-language films]]
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