Thikadar

Thikadar

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1940

Runtime

2h 21m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

ঠিকাদার

Production Companies

Shree Bharat Lakhsmi Pictures

Director

Prafulla Roy

Description

Melodrama featuring a thikadar (forest contractor), a somewhat remote figure like the landscape in which he operates. The villain is the plantation-owner named Abani Haldar, with a beautiful daughter, Latika. The thikadar saves Haldar in an accident, while later it is revealed that Haldar killed the thikadar's father and left his wife and children for dead. Latika, who loves the thikadar, succeeds in preventing the forester from taking revenge for those crimes.