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.

Thikadar (1940)

★ 9/10 November 8, 1940 141 min

Drama

Director: Prafulla Roy  ·  Writers: Tulsi Lahiri, Prafulla Roy

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.

Director

Prafulla Roy

Cast

Tulsi Lahiri Sukhen Durgadas Bandyopadhyay Abani Haldar Jiban Ganguly Matilal Thikadar Satya Mukherjee Bhikhu Renuka Roy Latika Chitra Devi Chanchali Kamala Jharia Mungri Santosh Singha Baganbabu Rabi Ray Manager Sudhir Mitra Kancha Girin Chakraborty Jatra Abbasuddin Ahmed Coolie