Devi Chaudhurani (1974)
Overview
Prafulla is beautiful and righteous but is mistreated by her in laws because of her poverty. Prafulla comes to a fortune by chance and is guided by Bhabani Pathak, a nationalistic religious leader to use this fortune in the cause of justice. She is trained rigorously and becomes a bandit queen wrapped in mystery and even fights back Colonial British forces to safeguard villagers.She becomes the legendary Debi Chowdhurani. Gradually incidents take such a turn that her erstwhile tormentors, i.e. her in laws come under her power and the movie ends with reconciliation.
Cast
Suchitra Sen
Prafulla/ Devi Chaudhurani
Ranjit Mallick
Brajeswar
Kali Bannerjee
Haraballav
Chhaya Devi
Brajeswar's mother
Sumitra Mukherjee
Sagarmani
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Jahar Roy
Premangshu Bose
Satya Banerjee
Ajoy Bandyopadhyay
