''Sabar Uparey'' (; ''English: Beyond All'') is a 1955 Indian

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produced by M.P Production Private Ltd and directed by

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, based on

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's 1953 novel, '' Beyond This Place''. It stars

Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar (born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), widely known as Mahanayak (), was an Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema ...

and

Suchitra Sen Suchitra Sen, widely known as the Mahanayika (), was an Indian actress who worked in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite actor Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Cinema of Wes ...

in leading roles.

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and Nitish Mukherjee also play important roles in the movie. The music was composed by Robin Chatterjee. The movie was remade in

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as '' Kala Pani'' in 1958.

Plot

Prashanta Chatterjee (Chhabi Biswas) is sentenced to life imprisonment after the alleged murder of Hemangini, a lady based in Krishnanagar whom he is accused of loving and then dumping and murdering heinously. Twelve years later, his only son Shankar (Uttam Kumar), who lives with his mother (Sobha Sen) in Patna, comes to Krishnanagar to prove his father's innocence and bring the actual perpetrators to justice. There he falls in love with Rita (Suchitra Sen), a girl who too had a life history of injustice. Together, they secretly conjure up various evidences against the actual criminal, a government lawyer(Nitish Mukherjee) who originally fought the case against his father 12 years back. In all this, they get the help of Rita's journalist brother (Pahari Sanyal) who, through his articles and friends in the Press, gathers public momentum to finally reopen the case. Shankar presents the case himself and through various evidences and tact presentations, successfully pleads in favour of his father and proves the involvement of the actual criminal, the government lawyer, who killed Hemangini to benefit from a huge insurance in her name. Prashanta Choudhury is acquitted. Meanwhile, with 12 years of wretched life in the prisons and the thought that his wife and child had perished due to poverty, he seems to lose his mental balance. However, when brought in the midst of his family, sense and wellness returns to him. He thanks Rita's brother for his immense help and asks his sister's hand for his son Shankar.

Cast

as Shankar Chatterjee *

as Rita *

as Prashanta Chatterjee, Shankar's father *

as Rita's brother, a journalist *Nitish Mukherjee as Government lawyer * Sobha Sen as Mahamaya, Shankar's mother *Jayashree Sen as Bina *Bithi Dasgupta *Bishweshwar Bhattacharya

Soundtrack

Reception

Reviews

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'' wrote ''Bengal has no doubt gifted so many great names in acting and entertainment, some far more talented than the duo. Still, time hasn’t worn down the sweet memory of Uttam-Suchitra. The why’s and how’s of their chemistry mystified a generation that saw the pairing as romantic legends.''

Box office

The film became critically acclaimed and a huge blockbuster at the box office and ran for 100 days in theatres. The film collected five times from the budget. This is also one of the highest grossing Bengali film of 1955.

Remake

The film was remade in Hindi in 1958 as '' Kala Pani,'' produced and starring

Dev Anand Dev Anand (; born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Indian cinema, Hindi cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most succes ...

in his banner

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, with

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playing the female lead.

References

External links

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Sabar Uparey
at Upperstall.com {{Beyond This Place 1955 films Bengali-language Indian films Indian crime thriller films 1950s crime thriller films Films based on works by A. J. Cronin 1950s Bengali-language films Bengali films remade in other languages Films scored by Robin Chatterjee Indian black-and-white films