Thikadar

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
  • Runtime: 141 minutes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Stars: Tulsi Lahiri, Durgadas Bandyopadhyay, Jiban Ganguly, Satya Mukherjee, Renuka Roy, Chitra Devi, Kamala Jharia, Santosh Singha, Rabi Ray, Abbasuddin Ahmed, Nitish Mukherjee, Kenaram Bandyopadhyay, Sudhir Mitra, Utpal Sen, Girin Chakraborty
  • Director: Prafulla Roy