Subarnarekha (film)

Subarnarekha Bengali Subararkh is an Indian Bengali film directed by Ritwik Ghatak. It was produced in 1962 but was not released until 1965. It was part of the trilogy, Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960, Komal Gandhar 1961, and Subarnarekha 1962, all dealing with the aftermath of the Partition of India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it.

The film tells the story of Ishwar Chakraborty Abhi Bhattacharya, a Hindu refugee from East Pakistan after the 1947 partition of India. He goes to West Bengal with his little sister Sita Indrani Chakrabarty where he tries to start a new life. In a refugee camp, they see the abduction of a lowcaste woman and Ishwar takes her little son Abhiram Sriman Tarun with him. He gets a job at a factory in the province, near the river Subarnarekha.After completing his study when Abhiram is asked to go to Germany for his studies, he Satindra Bhattacharya and Sita Madhabi Mukherjee discover that they are in love. But at this moment, Ishwars fear of prejudice emerges, as he does not want his sister, a Brahmin, to marry a lower caste boy. During Sitas wedding with another man, the girl and Abhiram elope and go to Calcutta. Ishwar is angry and heartbroken. ........

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