| Saat Pake Bandha | |
| Starring: | Suchitra Sen Soumitra Chatterjee Chhaya Devi Pahari Sanyal Tarun Kumar Gita Dey |
| Director: | Ajoy Kar |
| Producer: | R D Banshal |
| Story: | Ashutosh Mukherjee |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Music: | Hemanta Mukherjee |
| Cinematography: | Bishnu Chakrabarty |
| Budget: | |
| Runtime: | 125 minutes |
Saat Pake Bandha is a Bengali romantic film starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Suchitra Sen, Pahari Sanyal and Tarun Kumar. Directed by Ajoy Kar, it was a box office success upon its release. The movie was remade in 1963 in Telugu as Vivaha Bandham, in 1974 in Hindi as Kora Kagaz and in Tamil as Lalitha in 1976.[1]
Professor Sukhendu Dutta (Soumitra Chatterjee), a well-educated poor orphan, who lives with his aunt in a small apartment in Kolkata. Along with the regular job in the university, he alsoearns his living by private tuition. He met Archana Bose (Dutta) (Suchitra Sen), a well-educated woman of rich family background in a private party thrown in honour of a student of Sukhendu.After that, they fell in love and got married. Archana's mother was not happy with the marriage from the beginning, considering the poor income of Sukhendu. Eventually her toomuch interference in the married life of Sukhendu and Archana led to a mutual separation.
Moscow International Film Festival
11th National Film Awards – Saat Pake Bandha received a Certificate of Merit for 2nd best film in Bengali[2]