Bicharak

Bicharak
Directed by	Prabhat Mukherjee
Written by	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Produced by	Arundhati Devi
Starring	Sisir Bhaduri; Uttam Kumar; Arundhati Devi; Chhabi Biswas
Cinematography	Ajoy Mitra
Edited by	Haridas Mahalanbish
Music by	Rabindranath Tagore, Timir Baran Bhattachariya ; ; ; ;
Country	India
Language	Bengali ; ;

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Bicharak (English: The Judge) is a Bengali-language psychological thriller film directed by Prabhat Mukherjee. Based on a novel of the same name by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, the film was produced by Arundhati Devi.^[1]^[2] This film was released in 1959^[3] under the banner of Prabhat Productions and received National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1960.^[4] The film stars Uttam Kumar in the titular role alongside Arundhati Devi in the lead, while Chhabi Biswas, Pahadi Sanyal and Chandrabati Devi play other pivotal roles. The film showed Uttam Kumar one of the best performance ever as a Judge. This is also remembered as one of the best films in his career and best ever in Bengali Cinema history.^[5] The film also received huge critical acclamation and saw the commercial success.

Plot

The plot unfolds with a series of flashbacks which reveal a judge's past and hidden secrets. Gyanendra, a judge, lives with his wife Sarama. Being the Judge, with every trial of similar cases he remembers his past, the truth about his questionable actions. Gyanendra always recalls when he was a popular lawyer, married to Sumoti, a suspicious and rude lady. But he had a weak feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day Gyanendra's house was burnt and his first wife Sumoti died. Gyanendra could not make any attempt to save her, perhaps he was unable to bear Sumati further. Thereafter he marries Sarama and becomes a judge, but realizes his crime and the past haunts him much.