Nilachaley Mahaprabhu

1957 film by Kartik Chattopadhyay

28 June 1957 (1957-06-28) (India)

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Nilachaley Mahaprabhu was a 1957 Indian Bengali biographical film directed by Kartik Chattopadhyay, based on the life of 15th-century mystic Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who started his spiritual journey and Hindu reform movement, part of the Bhakti movement during his years at Nilachal, the shrine of Jagannath at Puri.^[1]^[2] It stars Asim Kumar in the title role with Dipti Roy, Sumitra Devi, Ahindra Choudhury, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Nripati Chattopadhyay and Chhabi Biswas in supporting roles.^[1]^[3]

At the beginning of his career, a 20-year-old Soumitra Chatterjee was rejected in his screen test for the film by director Kartik Chattopadhyay, he later made his debut with Apur Sansar (1959).^[4] The film continues to be a popular amongst Chaitanya and Krishna devotees and ISKCON followers.^[5] The first film of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Nader nimai is followed by this film.

Cast

Asim Kumar as Chaitanya
Dipti Roy as Vishnupriya
Ahindra Choudhury
Dhiraj Bhattacharya
Nitish Mukhapadhyay
Kanu Banerjee
Gurudas Bandyopadhyay
Bhanu Bandopadhyay
Nripati Chattopadhyay
Chhabi Biswas
Sumitra Devi^[6]
Molina Devi
Padma Devi
Shikharani
Sumita Bandha
Jnanadakakuti
Suruchi Sengupta
Kumari Indrani

References

^ ^a ^b Sur, Ansu; Goswami, Abhijit (1999). Bengali Film Directory. Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre. p. 96.
^ "A celebration of divine love". The Telegraph. 27 May 2012. Archived from the original on 30 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^ "Nilachale Mahaprabhu". World Film Database. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^ Anuradha SenGupta (29 June 2008). "Being Soumitra Chatterjee: Star of the East". CNN-IBN. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^ Karunika dasi (27 June 2013). "First Devotee to Turn Hundred in Mauritius". iskconmauritius.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^ "Sumitra Devi – An Unsurpassable Beauty Before the Genre of Suchitra Sen". Filmzack. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2018.