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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Biraj Bahu<br />
| image = Biraj Bahu.jpg<br />
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| director = [[Bimal Roy]]<br />
| producer = Hiten Choudhury<br />
| writer = [[Saratchandra Chattopadhyay]] (novel)<br/> [[Nabendu Ghosh]] (adaptation)<br /> [[Nasir Hussain]] (dialogue) <br />[[Bimal Roy]] (screenplay)<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Kamini Kaushal]]<br />[[Abhi Bhattacharya]]<br />[[Pran (actor)|Pran]]<br />
| music = [[Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
| cinematography = Dilip Gupta<br />
| editing = [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br />
| studio =Hiten Choudhury Productions<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1954}}<br />
| runtime = <br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
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'''''Biraj Bahu''''' is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1954|1954]] [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]] film produced by Hiten Choudhury and directed by [[Bimal Roy]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110520194632/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/147698/Biraj-Bahu/overview Biraj Bahu] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> and based on a Bengali novel by [[Saratchandra Chattopadhyay]]. The film stars [[Kamini Kaushal]], [[Abhi Bhattacharya]] and [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] and has music by [[Salil Chowdhury]]. The film won the [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#All India Certificate of Merit|All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film]].<br />
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[[Madhubala]], the highest-paid actress of that time, was eager to play the lead role in the film. She had visited Bimal Roy's office several times for this purpose. However, thinking that she would ask for high fee for doing the film, he cast Kamini Kaushal instead of her. Learning that her fee lost her the role, she had said that she would have acted for even one rupee in ''Biraj Bahu.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madhubala 86th Birth Anniversary: Know what the golden girl of Indian screen regretted till her last breath|url=http://www.catchnews.com/bollywood-news/madhubala-86th-birth-anniversary-know-what-the-golden-girl-of-indian-screen-regretted-till-her-last-breath-149243.html|access-date=2020-08-24|website=CatchNews.com|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Biraj (Kamini Kaushal) was married off to Nilambar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya) when she was a little girl. The couple is childless. Nilambar is pious, generous and loving, but unemployed. His devious younger brother takes advantage of Nilambar's naiveté to force a partition of the home and buy off their joint land under an assumed name from the lender it was mortgaged to. Nilambar and Biraj are reduced to a wretched existence. To make matters worse, Deodhar, a wealthy young contractor who arrives in the village, is captivated by Biraj's beauty and tries to bribe her erstwhile maid Sundari, to lure her to his boat. After several dramatic twists and turns, Biraj is kidnapped, but she jumps off the boat before he can do anything. She runs away from the hospital in the middle of the night to see her husband one last time. He had promised that he would bless her at the time of her death and that she would die at his feet.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Kamini Kaushal]] as Biraj Chakravorty<br />
* [[Abhi Bhattacharya]] as Nilambher Chakravorty <br />
* Shakuntala as Punnu Chakravorty<br />
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] as Deodhar<br />
* Randhir as Pitambar Chakravorty<br />
* Manorama as Sundari (Maidservant)<br />
* Kammo <br />
* Vikram Kapoor (as Bikram Kapoor)<br />
* [[Nazima]] (as Baby Chand)<br />
* [[Iftekhar]] Kishorilal, Deodhar's assistant <br />
* Moni Chatterjee as Bholanath<br />
* Sarita Devi <br />
* Shivji Bhai as Sheojibhai<br />
* Maya Dass as Maya Das<br />
* Dasarathlal as Dashrothlal<br />
* Sailen Bose<br />
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==Music==<br />
# "Meraa Mann Bhula Bhula Kahe Dole" - [[Hemant Kumar]]<br />
# "Jhum Jhum Manmohan Re Murali" - [[Hemant Kumar]]<br />
# "Suno Seeta Ki Kahani Ke Wo Mahlo Ki Rani" - [[Mohammed Rafi]]<br />
# "Na Jane Re Na Jane Re, Saiya Man Ki Battiya" - [[Shamshad Begum]]<br />
# "Tera Ghar Aabad Rahe Ja Ri Dulhaniya Ja Jaha Rahe" - [[Shyamal Mitra]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
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==Awards==<br />
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* [[2nd National Film Awards|1954]]: [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#All India Certificate of Merit|National Film Awards for All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film]]<ref name="2ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/2nd_nff_1955.pdf|title=2nd National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|accessdate=23 August 2011}}</ref><br />
* 1955: [[Filmfare Best Director Award]] for Bimal Roy<br />
* 1955: [[Filmfare Best Actress Award]] for Kamini Kaushal<br />
* 1955: [[Palme d'Or]] - [[1955 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]: Nominated.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3736/year/1955.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Biraj Bahu |accessdate=2009-01-31|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046780/awards Biraj Bahu awards] ''[[Internet Movie Database]]''</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130316215340/http://www.upperstall.com/films/1954/biraj-bahu Biraj Bahu] [[Upperstall]]<br />
* {{IMDb title|0046780|Biraj Bahu}}<br />
* {{Amg movie|147698|Biraj Bahu}}<br />
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{{All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film |state=autocollapse}}<br />
{{Bimal Roy}}<br />
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[[Category:1955 films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Bimal Roy]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on works by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]<br />
[[Category:Filmfare Awards winners]]<br />
[[Category:Indian drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1954 drama films]]</div>
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