Kumkum the Dancer (1940)

Hindi movie · · 142 min · TMDB 7/10

A dance film idealising poverty made mainly to showcase Bose's talents. Labour leader Suryashankar is jailed for trade union activities and, when released, finds that his friend Jagdish has stolen his property and plagiarised his play Bhookh (Hunger).

Cast: Sadhona Bose (Kumkum), Dhiraj Bhattacharya (Chandan), Preeti Majumdar, Padmadevi, Moni Chatterjee, Shashadhar Chatterjee.

Directed by Modhu Bose.

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