Thikadar (1940)
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.
- Released
- 1940-11-08
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Prafulla Roy, Prafulla Roy
- TMDB rating
- 9.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Tulsi Lahiri as Sukhen
- Durgadas Bandyopadhyay as Abani Haldar
- Jiban Ganguly as Matilal Thikadar
- Satya Mukherjee as Bhikhu
- Renuka Roy as Latika
- Chitra Devi as Chanchali
- Kamala Jharia as Mungri
- Santosh Singha as Baganbabu
- Rabi Ray as Manager
- Sudhir Mitra as Kancha
- Girin Chakraborty as Jatra
- Abbasuddin Ahmed as Coolie