Jharh
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{{Short description|1979 Bengali film}}
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Jharh (The Storm) is a 1979 Bengali biographical drama film directed and written by Utpal Dutt{{Cite web |title=থামতে শেখেনি ঝড়ের পাখি |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/%E0%A6%A5-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%B6-%E0%A6%96-%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%9D%E0%A7%9C-%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AA-%E0%A6%96-1.63522 |access-date=11 April 2025}}{{Cite book |last=Paietta |first=Ann C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnCADwAAQBAJ&dq=Utpal+Dutt+Ujjal+sengupta&pg=PA102 |title=Teachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present |date=2014-11-18 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2034-3 |language=en}} and produced by Government of West Bengal.{{Cite web |title=Bilingual E-archive Digital Platform for Bengal's Cinema |url=https://www.bengalfilmarchive.com/filmography-details.php?t=MTUzOQ== |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Bengal Film Archive}} The movie is based on the life of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, a social revolutionary.{{Cite web |title=Jhor (1979) |url=https://indiancine.ma/TWK/info |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Indiancine.ma}}{{Cite web |title=Frames per Second: Remember Derozio, enfant terrible of Bengali Renaissance |date=17 January 2020 |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/frames-per-second-remember-derozio-enfant-terrible-of-bengali-renaissance-120011701120_1.html |access-date=10 April 2025 |last1=Gupta |first1=Uttaran Das }}
Plot
The film portrays on the life of Henry Derozio, a leader of Bengal Renaissance and his students, members of the Young Bengal.{{Cite web |title=Jhor |url=https://www.primevideo.com/region/eu/detail/Jhor/0NU99KKKHLO48CXIN09MOSM416 |access-date=10 April 2025}}
Cast
- Ujjal Sengupta as Derozio
- Rabi Ghosh
- Shobha Sen
- Utpal Dutt as Radhakanta Deb
- Sumitra Mukherjee
- Ramaprasad Banik
- Haradhan Bannerjee
- Satya Banerjee
- Rajkumar Biswas
- Sagarika Adhikari
References
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