Headmaster

Story

Synopsis

The school of a remote and poor village shut down, the head master Krishna Prasanna (Chhabi) migrates to city in search of job. He moves with family, wife Labanya (Karuna), nubile daughter (Ranjana) and very young son. He takes residence with his wife's brother. He meets per chance one of his ex students, of whom he used to take free evening classes and many of whom got merit scholarship and became cream of society, a doctor, a judge, successful lawyer, manager of a big bank and so on. Can he cross the barrier and meet them? All have big bungalows and office with watchmen to stop. If he managed to meet them, will they recall his contribution and help their benefactor? If they do, what change he has to bring in himself? Can he?

Director

Agragami

Writers

Narendranath Mitra, Agragami, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

Language

Bengali

Country

India

Release date

25 September 1959

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Chhabi Biswas

  Krishna Prasanna

• 

  Karuna Banerjee

  Labanya

• Ranjana Banerjee

  Daughter

• Shyamal Ghosal

  Nirupam Dutta

• 

  Sova Sen

  Labanya's sister in law

• Shishir Batabyal

  Labanya's brother

• 

  Gangapada Basu

  Harimohan

• 

  Dilip Mukherjee

• 

  Santosh Dutta

• Bimal Bandopadhyay

• Shailen Ganguli