Title: Chandidas
Year: 1932
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
Country: India
Language: Bengali
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama, Music
Director: Debaki Bose
Music: Rai Chand Boral
Cast
Durgadas Bandhapadhyay .... Chandidas
Uma Shashi .... Rami
Krishna Chandra Dey .... Sridam
Amar Mullick .... Bijay Narayan
Manoranjan Bhattacharya .... Acharya
Dhirendranath Bandhapadhyay .... Batuk Ghosal
Chuni Dutta .... Chatterjee
Sunila .... Kankana
Plot
This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend. The film stressed the poet's teachings through the love story between Chandidas and a low-caste washerwoman, Rami. The conventional villain of the saint film genre, who represents the established order threatened by the outsider's revolutionary influence on common people, is the rapacious upper-caste merchant Bijoynarayan. When Rami rejects his advances, he persuades the high priest to insist that Chandidas must repent or be punished for associating with a low-caste woman. Chandidas agrees to repent but when he sees the injuries Rami has suffered at the hands of the merchant's goons, he rejects institutionalized religion in favor of the higher Vaishnavite call for a more democratic god and leaves the village with Rami.
Technical Specs:
Source: DVDR from gshandhya at KG.
Video Format: AVI/XviD
Video Bitrate: 1544 Kbps
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 608x464
Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.228
Audio Format: MP3 VBR 2ch
Audio Bitrate: 243 Kbps
Sampling rate: 48 KHz