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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Dada Thakur<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| director = Sudhir Mukherjee<br />
| producer = Shyamlal Jalan<br />
| writer = <br />
| starring = [[Chhabi Biswas]]<br/>[[Biswajit Chatterjee]]<br/>[[Sulata Chowdhury]]<br/>Tarun Kumar<br/>[[Chhaya Devi]]<br />
| music = [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
| cinematography = <br />
| editing = <br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = 1962<br />
| runtime = 153 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Dada Thakur''''' (also '''''Dadathakur''''') is a 1962 Bengali feature film based on the life of publisher and satirist [[Sarat Chandra Pandit]] (popularly known as [[Dada Thakur]]), starring [[Chhabi Biswas]] in the lead role. At the 10th National Film Awards, it won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]].<ref name="10thnfacatalogue">{{cite web |title=10th National Film Awards: Catalogue |url=http://164.100.60.104/Attachments/Documents/104_10thNfacatalogue.pdf |website=Directorate of Film Festivals |publisher=Government of India |accessdate=8 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141239/http://164.100.60.104/Attachments/Documents/104_10thNfacatalogue.pdf |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The film is based closely on the life of the real-life Dada Thakur, and was made in his lifetime. Dada Thakur ([[Chhabi Biswas]]) starts his career with a hand-operated press, with his wife ([[Chhaya Devi]]) as his assistant. Later he is joined by Nalini Kanta Sarkar (Tarun Kumar), an underground freedom-fighter. Dada Thakur brings out the newspaper ''Jangipur Sangbad''. He campaigns against social evils and earns the ire of the ruling classes. He saves a girl, Lata ([[Sulata Chowdhury]]), from the unwanted advances of Darpanarayan ([[Biswajit Chatterjee]]), scion of the local zamindar. Lata joins the ranks of freedom fighters working with Sarkar. Subsequently, a reformed Darpanarayan too becomes an ardent follower of Dada Thakur and joins the struggle for India's freedom. Dada Thakur's greatest success is when he helps an ordinary man, a petty shopkeeper, get elected as the Municipal Commissioner of Jangipur.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Chhabi Biswas]] as Dada Thakur<br />
* [[Biswajit Chatterjee]] as Darpanarayan<br />
* [[Chhaya Devi]] as Dada Thakur's wife<br />
* Tarun Kumar as Nalini Kanta Sarkar<br />
* [[Sulata Chowdhury]] as Lata<br />
*[[Bhanu Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
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== Crew ==<br />
* Direction - Sudhir Mukherjee<br />
* Production - Shyamlal Jalan<br />
* Music - [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
* Audiography - Satyen Chatterjee<br />
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==Production==<br />
The casting of the film was done in 1957. Biswajit, who made his debut with this film, recalls: "There was a family like atmosphere prevailing in the entire unit then. I fondly recollect one night when I was having disturbance in sleeping due to mosquito bites. We were shooting outdoors. Chhabi Biswas, like a parent figure, took care personally putting up a mosquito net and covered me with a blanket."<ref name=hindu>{{cite news|title=My First Break: Biswajit|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/my-first-break-biswajit/article2615586.ece|accessdate=18 January 2014|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
When released, the film enjoyed both commercial and critical success. The performance of Chhabi Biswas as Dada Thakur was much appreciated.{{by whom|date=June 2016}} It is said that Sarat Pandit himself praised Biswas' portrayal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chhabi Biswas{{!}}Upperstall.com|url=http://www.upperstall.com/people/chhabi-biswas|accessdate=18 January 2014}}</ref> Biswas' death in a road accident shortly before the film's release undoubtedly played a role in its commercial success. At the 10th National Film Awards, it won the top prize, ahead of the better known films ''[[Abhijan]]'', directed by [[Satyajit Ray]], and ''[[Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam]]'', produced by [[Guru Dutt]] and directed by [[Abrar Alvi]].<ref name="10thnfacatalogue" /> It also won a couple of BFJA Awards, including Best Indian Film.<br />
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== Preservation ==<br />
The film has been restored and digitised by the [[National Film Archive of India]].<ref name="nfai">{{cite web |title=Digitized and Restored Films List |url=https://www.nfai.gov.in/upload/circleIconPdf/1499148501_Digitized%20and%20Restored%20Films%20List.pdf |website=nfai.gov.in |publisher=National Film Archive of India |accessdate=23 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630135159/https://www.nfai.gov.in/upload/circleIconPdf/1499148501_Digitized%20and%20Restored%20Films%20List.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
=== 10th National Film Awards ===<br />
* National Film Award for Best Feature Film <ref name="10thnfacatalogue" /><br />
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=== BFJA Awards (1962) === <br />
* Best Indian Films<br />
* Best Audiography - Satyen Chatterjee <ref name="gomoloawards">{{cite web |title=Dadathakur (1962) Awards |url=http://www.gomolo.com/dadathakur-movie-awards/13827 |website=gomolo.com |accessdate=8 June 2018}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0055882}}<br />
{{NationalFilmAwardBestFeatureFilm}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
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