Chandidas (1932)

Name: Chandidas
Genre: Drama
Released: 1932
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Cast: Durgadas Bandyopadhyay, Krishna Chandra Dey, Manoranjan Bhattacharya, Amar Mullick, Chani Dutta

Bengali movie · Drama · 133 min · TMDB 5.7/10

This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend.

Cast: Durgadas Bandyopadhyay (Chandidas), Krishna Chandra Dey (Sridam), Manoranjan Bhattacharya (Acharya), Amar Mullick (Vijay Narayan), Chani Dutta (Chatujye), Umasashi (Rami).

Directed by Debaki Bose.

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