''Gora'' is a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed

Naresh Mitra Naresh Mitra (18 May 1888 – 1968) was a Bengali actor, director and screenwriter. Career Naresh Mitra was born in 1888 in Agartala, Tripura, British India. He studied law from the University of Calcutta. He started his acting career in 1922 i ...

based on the 1909 novel of the same name by

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

. This film was released on 30 July 1938. Music composer of the film was

Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengalis, Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist and musician. He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a List of works by Kazi Nazrul Islam, large body of ...

Plot

Gora and Mahim were sons of Krishna Dayal. Binay, Gora's childhood friend introduced him to a Brahma family. Gora is very conscious about his

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and he likes to represent himself as an orthodox Hindu. His Hinduism makes conflict with the

Brahma Brahma (, ) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the triple deity, trinity of Para Brahman, supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.Jan Gonda (1969)The Hindu Trinity, Anthropos, Bd 63/64, H 1/2, pp. 212– ...

religion.

Cast

as Haranbabu * Jiban Ganguly as Gora * Mohan Ghoshal as Binay * Manoranjan Bhattacharya as Paresh Babu *

Bipin Gupta Bipin Gupta (21 August 1905 – 9 September 1981) was an Indian actor and artist during the 1930s and 1960s. He acted in Bengali and Hindi cinema, most notably in '' Baiju Bawra'' (1952), ''Jagriti'' (1954), ''Gharana'' (1961) and '' Khilona'' ...

as Krishnadayal * Ranibala as Radharani a.k.a. Sucharita * Protima Dasgupta as Lalita * Rajlakshmi Devi as Anandomoyee * Devbala as Haramohini * Manorama as Baradasundari * Suhasini Devi

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* 1938 films Bengali-language Indian films Films based on works by Rabindranath Tagore Films set in the British Raj 1938 drama films Indian black-and-white films Films based on Indian novels Brahmoism Indian drama films 1930s Bengali-language films Films directed by Naresh Mitra {{1930s-Bengali-film-stub