Chaoa Paoa – Bengali – Uttam, Suchitra

Chaoa Paoa, 1959
Director: Tarun Majumdar
Music Director: Nachiketa Ghosh
Lyrics: Shyamal Gupta, Gauri Prasanna
Playback: Hemanta Mukherjee, Sandhya Mukherjee
Cast: Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Sudhir Basu, Panchanan Bhattacharya, Santi Bhattacharya, Chhabi Biswas, Jiben Bose, Tulsi Chakraborty, Anil Chatterjee,

English subtitles included.

There are lots of missing frames, some of which were clumsily covered up, and other times you’ll notice the jumps. The source was made from a poor quality VHS tape. There were also longer patches of bad aberrations (video bouncing up and down) which I could only freeze in place, using good frames. So, sometimes you might see some unmoving video lasting for a second or more. I decided that was better than watching the garbage on the source. There are also lots of vertical scratches, sometimes very annoying and lasting for minutes. My software isn’t very good at removing those nasty things.

There are also some subtitles missing.

The audio is mostly okay. Hundreds of pops and clicks were removed, although many remain.

If IMDB and The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema are to be believed, the film is 145 minutes long.This is 124.5 minutes (almost). While there are some obvious cuts made in this version, it doesn’t disrupt the flow or interfere with the viewing.

Chaoa Paoa (transl. Desires and Fulfillment) is a 1959 Indian Bengali-language romantic comedy film with three directors Sachin Mukherjee, Dilip Mukherjee, Tarun Majumdar. It is based on the 1934 Academy Awards winning American film It Happened One Night. The film become huge success.

Manju (Suchitra Sen), chafing under her father’s domination and his intention to marry her off to a man she doesn’t like, leaves home to seek her fortune. Rajat (Uttam Kumar) is a newspaperman about to be fired unless he comes up with a big story. They meet on a train and soon Rajat, after reading a newspaper ad offering 10,000 rupees for Manju’s return, decides to lead her back to her father, reap the reward, and reclaim his job. But Love has other plans.

The Hindi-language film, Chori Chori is also a remake of It Happened One Night. It’s found in this channel here:

https://youtu.be/fIvodFD7r-o

Here are links to the 2 songs in the film:
1. Ei Je Kache Daka
https://youtu.be/eVu67EL5z_U
2, Jodi Babo E To Khelaghar
https://youtu.be/OSC-aV5_-EA