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'''Guru Dakshina'''


1987 ?’ col Bengali
d/sc Anjan Choudhury p/st Bhabesh Kundu
c Girish Padidhar m Bappi Lahiri
lp Tapas Paul, Ranjit Mullick, Shatabdi Roy,
Kali Bannerjee, Shaktimala Barua, Soumitra
Bannerjee, Bhabesh Kundu, Ishani Bannerjee


Major hit by the most successful Bengali
director of the 80s. The poor Jayanta (Paul)
loves Rupa, the rich daughter of the local
zamindar, but is also indebted to his music
teacher. When Jayanta upstages Rupa in a
music contest, the zamindar uses his financial
hold over the music teacher to extract a
promise that Jayanta will never sing again.
Eventually, when Jayanta shows he wants to
keep his promise come what may, the
zamindar relents and allows his daughter to
marry Jayanta. The film borrows from a bawdy
latter-day version of the folk jatra with its often
lewd speech (an idiom associated particularly
with this director), cueing the editing to the
dialogue. Lahiri departed from his usual
electronic rock score and composed several
hits in a ‘classical’ style.

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