Devi Chaudhurani (1974)

10.0/10 141 min Drama

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

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