Basanta Bilap Explained

Basanta Bilap
Director:	Dinen Gupta
Screenplay:	Shekhar Chatterjee
Story:	Bimal Kar
Starring:	Soumitra Chatterjee Aparna Sen Rabi Ghosh Anup Kumar
Music:	Sudhin Dasgupta
Cinematography:	Dinen Gupta
Editing:	Ramesh Joshi
Studio:	Sonali Productions
Runtime:	117 minutes
Country:	India
Language:	Bengali

Basanta Bilap is a 1973 Indian Bengali language romantic comedy film directed by Dinen Gupta, based on a story by Bimal Kar.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

The story revolves around a group of girls (4 of them are focussed mainly), all boarders of a working ladies' hostel Basanta Bilap, and a group of 4 boys from the neighborhood, a series of hilarious clashes between them eventually leading to their romance.

Cast

• Soumitra Chatterjee as Shyam Sundar Bose aka Shyam, leader of the boys
• Aparna Sen as Anuradha Singha aka Radha, leader of the girls
• Rabi Ghosh as Gupto
• Kajal Gupta as Parbati aka Paro
• Anup Kumar as Lalit aka Lalu
• Sumitra Mukherjee as Nabanita aka Nita
• Chinmoy Roy as Siddheswar Bandapadhyay aka Sidhu
• Sibani Bose as Aalo Ray
• Amarnath Mukherjee as Ajay, Lalu's elder brother
• Kanika Majumdar as Ajay's wife, and a mediator between the two groups
• Tarun Kumar Chatterjee as Dr. Girija Sapui, a homeopathy doctor
• Gita Dey as Sidhu's Aunty(Kakima)
• Haridhan Mukhopadhyay as the tenant/landlord of Basanta Bilap

Soundtrack

Basanta Bilap
Type:	Soundtrack

All music is composed by Sudhin Dasgupta.^[3]

Notes and References

1. News: Aparna Sen's 7 most memorable Tollywood performances. The Times of India.
2. Web site: Basanta Bilap . https://web.archive.org/web/20200608022737/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/basanta-bilap-33783 . live . 8 June 2020 . Cinestaan . 13 May 2020 .
3. Web site: Gaana: Basanta Bilap songs.