Prafulla is beautiful and righteous but is mistreated by her in laws because of her poverty. Prafulla comes to a fortune by chance and is guided by Bhabani Pathak, a nationalistic religious leader to use this fortune in the cause of justice. She is trained rigorously and becomes a bandit queen wrapped in mystery and even fights back Colonial British forces to safeguard villagers.She becomes the legendary Debi Chowdhurani. Gradually incidents take such a turn that her erstwhile tormentors, i.e. her in laws come under her power and the movie ends with reconciliation.

Devi Chaudhurani (1974)

★ 10/10 September 6, 1974 141 min

Drama

Director: Dinen Gupta  ·  Writer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Prafulla is beautiful and righteous but is mistreated by her in laws because of her poverty. Prafulla comes to a fortune by chance and is guided by Bhabani Pathak, a nationalistic religious leader to use this fortune in the cause of justice. She is trained rigorously and becomes a bandit queen wrapped in mystery and even fights back Colonial British forces to safeguard villagers.She becomes the legendary Debi Chowdhurani. Gradually incidents take such a turn that her erstwhile tormentors, i.e. her in laws come under her power and the movie ends with reconciliation.

Director

Dinen Gupta

Cast

Suchitra Sen Prafulla/ Devi Chaudhurani Ranjit Mallick Brajeswar Kali Bannerjee Haraballav Chhaya Devi Brajeswar's mother Sumitra Mukherjee Sagarmani Haradhan Bandyopadhyay Jahar Roy Premangshu Bose Nripati Chatterjee Satya Banerjee Ajoy Bandyopadhyay