Udayer Pathey
About Udayer Pathey
Anup Kumar Lekhak, out of work, is hired to ghostwrite speeches for a rich industrialist. At the house he meets the boss's sister, Gopa. The boss then publishes Anup's unpublished novel under his own name, and the book sells. After Anup's sister is humiliated in that house, Anup quits and heads for the village. Hired men stone him at a rally. Gopa faces her brother and stays with Anup.
Cast & crew
More about Udayer Pathey
Bimal Roy's first feature, made at New Theatres in Calcutta. He directed, photographed, and wrote the screenplay with Nirmal Dey. Jyotinmoy Roy wrote the story. Sourin Sen designed the sets. Raichand Boral wrote the music. Shailen Roy wrote lyrics, and the film also uses three songs by Rabindranath Tagore. New Theatres remade it in Hindi as Humrahi in 1945.
Themes
Background
New Theatres released it in Calcutta in 1944, the year after the Bengal famine, with independence still ahead.
Making
Roy came to the director's chair at New Theatres after photographing other people's films. He also shot this one himself.
Look
Bimal Roy photographed it himself, including the rally where the boss's men stone Anup.
Music
Raichand Boral wrote the music. Shailen Roy wrote lyrics. Three of the songs are by Rabindranath Tagore.
Notes
- Radhamohan Bhattacharya plays Anup. Binata Roy is billed with him, also spelled Binota Roy. Biswanath Bhaduri, Devi Mukherjee, Rekha Mallick, and Parul Kar are on the cast list.
- The Bengali title means Towards the Dawn.
- The year before, Roy had shot a New Theatres documentary on the Bengal famine.
- A later account calls this the studio's biggest earner and the one made on its smallest budget.
- The Hindi remake is Humrahi (1945).
Scenes
- The industrialist publishes Anup's novel under his own name.
- Goondas stone Anup at the rally.
- Gopa tells her brother she is leaving with Anup.
Influenced
- Humrahi (1945)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Udayer Pathey (1944).webm)
