Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha
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Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (Burmese Box of Aunt Padi) is a Bengali adventure comedy film{{Cite book|last1=Roy|first1=Anjali Gera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vQtDwAAQBAJ&dq=Padi+Pishir+Barmi+Baksha&pg=PT116|title=Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA|last2=Huat|first2=Chua Beng|date=2014-11-10|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-908862-1|language=en}} directed by Arundhati Devi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b753bbf46|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123115042/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b753bbf46|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 November 2021|title=PADI PISIR BARMI BAKSHA (1970)|website=bfi.org.uk|access-date=1 September 2018}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&q=Padi+Pishir+Barmi+Baksha&pg=PA1994-IA80|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|last=Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen|date=10 July 2014|isbn=9781135943257|access-date=1 September 2018}}{{Cite web|title=Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (1972) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/padi-pishir-barmi-baksha-35285|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024182447/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/padi-pishir-barmi-baksha-35285|url-status=live|archive-date=24 October 2020|access-date=2021-09-03|website=Cinestaan}} It is based on the children's novel of the same name by Leela Majumdar.{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/this-is-gold/|title=This is gold|date=14 June 2014|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=24 March 2019}}{{Cite book|last=Majumadāra|first=Līlā|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R37HkQEACAAJ|title=The Burmese Box: Two Novellas|date=2010|publisher=Puffin Books|isbn=978-0-14-333148-3|language=en}} This film was released in 1972 under the banner of Anindiya Chitra{{Cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/PFG/info|title=Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (Arundhati Devi) 1972|website=indiancine.ma|access-date=1 September 2018}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IXlTAAAAYAAJ&q=Padi+Pishir+Barmi+Baksha|title=Film World|date=1973|publisher=T.M. Ramachandran|language=en}} and the film is Devi's most famous directorial work.{{Cite web|title=Arundhati Devi - Bengali women filmmakers who have made India proud|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/bengali-women-filmmakers-who-have-made-india-proud/arundhati-devi/photostory/63927020.cms|access-date=2021-09-03|website=The Times of India}}
Plot
Khoka is a schoolboy who goes to his uncle's house, where he learns about the tales of Padi Pishi (Aunt Padi), a formidable widow. She once went to Khuro's house to meet him, but bandits attacked her. When Khuro got to know about it, he offered her bribes from his loot so that the news would not be public. Padi Pishi then took a precious Burmese box that was hidden in Khuro's house. Before Padi's Pishi's death, she did not reveal the hiding place to anyone except her son Goja. The entire family searched for the missing box but could not recover it. A private detective also searched for the box but could not find it. The story is about how it is finally discovered.
Cast
- Chhaya Devi as Padi Pishi
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay as Bandit Uncle
- Rabi Ghosh as Private detective
- Jahor Roy
- Rudraprasad Sengupta
- Chinmoy Roy
- Nripati Chattopadhyay
- Haradhan Bandopadhyay
- Ketaki Dutta
- Nirmal Kumar
- Rajlakshmi Devi
- Mrinal Mukherjee
- Tapati Ghosh
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