Dekha
{{short description|2001 film by Goutam Ghose}}
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| director = Goutam Ghose
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| screenplay = Goutam Ghose
| story = Sunil Gangopadhyay
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| released = {{Film date|2001|02|02|df=yes}}
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| language = Bengali
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Dekha is a 2001 Bengali drama film directed by Goutam Ghose. This was Ghose's ninth feature film and it was a successful one.{{cite web |title=Gautam Ghosh Portrait of a director |url=http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/gautamghosh.shtml |publisher=Calcutta Web |access-date=26 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915105905/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/gautamghosh.shtml |archive-date=15 September 2012 |df=dmy }}{{cite web|title=Dekha of Goutam Ghose|url=http://www.parabaas.com/PB22/LEKHA22/mDekha22.html|publisher=Parabaas|access-date=26 September 2012}}{{cite news|title='Dekha' screening on tomorrow|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-08-17/hyderabad/27246700_1_film-chamber-screening-gautam-ghose|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103223824/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-08-17/hyderabad/27246700_1_film-chamber-screening-gautam-ghose|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-03|access-date=26 September 2012|newspaper=The Times of India|date=17 August 2001}} At the 48th National Film Awards, the film was awarded Best Feature Film in Bengali, while Soumitra Chatterjee was awarded the Special Jury Award.{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/48th_nff_2001.pdf|title=48th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}
Plot
The film revolves around an ageing poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
Cast
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Sashi Bhusan Sanyal
- Debashree Roy as Sarama
- Roopa Ganguly as Sashi Bhusan's wife
- Indrani Haldar as Reema
- Biplab Chatterjee as Biplob
- Haradhan Bannerjee as Sarama's father
- Paran Bandyopadhyay
- Anjan Dutt as Sarama's husband
- Kamal Kanjilal as Gagan Chandra Goon
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0368678}}
- {{Official website|http://www.goutamghose.com/dekha.html|Dekha in Goutam Ghose's official website}}
{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Bengali}}
{{Goutam Ghose}}
Category:Films about blind people in India
Category:Bengali-language Indian films
Category:Best Bengali Feature Film National Film Award winners
Category:2000s Bengali-language films
Category:Films directed by Goutam Ghose
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