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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Harano Sur<br />
| image = Harano Sur.jpg<br />
| producer = Uttam Kumar<br />
| caption = DVD cover<br />
| director = [[Ajoy Kar]]<br />
| screenplay = Nripendrakrishna Chatterjee<br />
| based_on = ''[[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]]'' (1942 American film)<br />
| starring = [[Suchitra Sen]]<br />[[Uttam Kumar]]<br />[[Utpal Dutt]]<br />[[Pahari Sanyal]]<br />
| studio = Alo Chaya Productions<br />
| distributor = Chayabani Pvt Ltd<br />
| music = [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
| cinematography = Ajoy Kar<br />
| editing = Ardhendu Chatterjee<br />
| released = {{Film date|1957|09|06|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 162 minutes<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| country = India<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Harano Sur''''' ({{translation|The Lost Tune}}) is a 1957 Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language [[romantic drama film]] by [[Ajoy Kar]], starring [[Suchitra Sen]] and [[Uttam Kumar]], with music by [[Hemant Kumar|Hemanta Mukherjee]], sung by [[Geeta Dutt]]. This is the first film that Uttam produced along with Ajoy Kar. The film is regarded as one of the finest examples<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harano Sur |url=http://www.upperstall.com/films/harano_sur.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226034929/http://www.upperstall.com/films/harano_sur.html |archive-date=2008-02-26 |access-date=2008-03-30 |website=Upperstall}}</ref> of [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]] of this early period.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.indiancinemas.com/News-21/Bengali+Films+in+the+history+books.html?newsid=52&linkid=21 | title = The Early Years of Bengali cinema | access-date = 9 October 2011 | archive-date = 2 May 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120502161922/http://www.indiancinemas.com/News-21/Bengali+Films+in+the+history+books.html?newsid=52&linkid=21 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The film is based on the 1942 American film ''[[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |url=https://indiancine.ma/texts/indiancine.ma%3AEncyclopedia_of_Indian_Cinema/text.pdf |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] and [[Oxford University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=0-19-563579-5 |pages=349–350 |author-link=Ashish Rajadhyaksha |author-link2=Paul Willemen |orig-date=1994}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Images: The beautiful Suchitra Sen in Aandhi, Deep Jwele Jaai and Harano Sur |url=https://www.firstpost.com/photos/entertainment-gallery/images-the-beautiful-suchitra-sen-in-aandhi-deep-jwele-jaai-and-harano-sur-1314291.html |website=[[Firstpost]] |access-date=24 April 2022 |date=17 January 2014}}</ref> The film became the [[List of highest-grossing Indian Bengali films|highest grossing Bengali film of 1957]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
An [[Amnesia|amnesiac]] after a train accident, Alok Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is rescued after escaping from the asylum where he was admitted by Doctor Roma Banerjee (Suchitra Sen) who takes him to her father's (Pahadi Sanyal) country house in a village called [[Palampur, Himachal Pradesh|Palaspur]]. There, while treating him, she falls for him and he for her. They marry but a second accident makes him recall his life as a rich businessman in [[Calcutta]] and forget the memories spent with Roma. Roma follows him to Calcutta and meets him there, but he doesn't recognise her. He hires her as governess to his niece instead. Roma keeps trying to simulate Alok's memory but is looked at suspiciously by Lata, Alok's fiancée in Calcutta who thinks Roma is snatching Alok away from her and who complains to Alok's mother. The latter has Roma kicked out. Alok, realizing she is from Palaspur and that is where he got back his memory goes there and regains his memory of times spent with Roma there.<ref>{{Cite news |title='Harano Sur' (1957) – Ten Bengali films featuring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen that are a must watch |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/ten-bengali-films-featuring-uttam-kumar-and-suchitra-sen-that-are-a-must-watch/harano-sur-1957/photostory/63785107.cms |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=The Times of India}}</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
*[[Uttam Kumar]] as Alok Mukherjee<br />
*[[Suchitra Sen]] as Dr Roma Banerjee<br />
*[[Pahadi Sanyal]] as Roma's father<br />
*[[Chandrabati Devi]] as Alok mother<br />
*[[Utpal Dutta]] as Dr Majumder<br />
*[[Khagen Pathak]] as Station Master<br />
*[[Shailen Mukherjee]] as Manager<br />
*[[Haren Mukherjee]] as Dr. Haren Mukherjee<br />
*[[Dipak Mukherjee]] as Mihir Bhattacharya<br />
*[[Kajori Guha]] as Lata<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
{{Infobox album<br />
| name = Harano Sur<br />
| type = Soundtrack<br />
| artist = [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
| cover =<br />
| alt =<br />
| released = 1957<br />
| recorded = 1956<br />
| venue =<br />
| studio = Alo Chaya Productions Pvt Ltd<br />
| genre = [[Feature Film Soundtrack]] <br />
| length = 0:6:44<br />
| label = Sa Re Ga Ma Pa<br />
| producer = Uttam Kumar<br />
| prev_title = [[Tasher Ghar]]<br />
| prev_year = 1957<br />
| next_title = [[Lukochuri]]<br />
| next_year = 1958<br />
}}<br />
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[[Hemanta Mukherjee]] composed the music of the film. All the lyrics were penned by [[Gauriprasanna Mazumder]].<br />
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{{Track listing<br />
| headline = Songs<br />
| extra_column = Playback<br />
| title1 = Tumi Je Amar<br />
| length1 = 3:08<br />
| extra1 = [[Geeta Dutt]]<br />
| title2 = Aaj Dujanar Duti Path<br />
| length2 = 3:36<br />
| extra2 = [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
| total_length = 6:44<br />
}}<br />
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== Production ==<br />
''Harano Sur'' was the first film produced by Uttam Kumar along with Ajoy Kar. Uttam decided to keep Bengali cinema to national level, so he came into film production under their banner Alochaya Production Pvt Ltd. The film was based on 1942 [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nominated film [[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]] which itself based on the novel of same name written by [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]].<br />
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== Release & Reception ==<br />
It was released in India on 6 September 1957 under the banner of Alochaya Production and distributed by Chayabani Private Limited.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-06 |title=Once Upon a Cinema: Beyond the Trinity with Ajoy Kar |url=https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/once-upon-a-cinema-beyond-the-trinity-with-ajoy-kar-10875501.html |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=Firstpost}}</ref><br />
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===Reviews===<br />
''[[The Times of India]]'' wrote ''The legendary Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar – that’s what this movie is all about. It’s simply their charisma, their chemistry, their presence which will captivate you throughout''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=‘Harano Sur’ (1957) |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/ten-all-time-great-romantic-movies-in-bengali-cinema/harano-sur-1957/photostory/64061466.cms |access-date=2023-05-23 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><br />
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===Box office===<br />
The film became [[List of highest-grossing Indian Bengali films|highest grossing Bengali film in 1957]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-06 |title=Once Upon a Cinema: Beyond the Trinity with Ajoy Kar |url=https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/once-upon-a-cinema-beyond-the-trinity-with-ajoy-kar-10875501.html |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Firstpost}}</ref><br />
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==Themes==<br />
''Random Harvest'' had already been adapted before in Tamil in 1956 as ''[[Amara Deepam (1956 film)|Amara Deepam]]'' and starred [[Sivaji Ganesan|Sivaji Ganeshan]] and [[Savitri (actress)|Savitri]], which was later remade in Hindi as ''[[Amardeep (1958 film)|Amar Deep]]'' starring [[Dev Anand]] and [[Vyjayanthimala|Vyjainthimala]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rajadhyaksha |first=Ashish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&dq=Amardeep+Harano+sur&pg=PT5 |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |date=2014-07-10 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-94318-9}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
* [[5th National Film Awards|1957]] – [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali|Certificate of Merit for Third Best Feature Film in Bengali]]<ref name="5thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/5th_nff.pdf|title=5th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0050484|title=Harano Sur}}<br />
{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Bengali}}<br />
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[[Category:Films directed by Ajoy Kar]]<br />
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[[Category:Films about amnesia]]<br />
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[[Category:Films about medical doctors]]<br />
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