Portrait of a Life - Cast

Portrait of a Life (1988)
130 min | Drama

Portrait of a Life (1988)

130 min | Drama

Gurudas was a Sanskrit teacher in a village school of undivided Bengal. While teaching he felt the absence of an up-to-date lexicon in Bengali language which has gained a new shape delinking itself from original Sanskrit. He, in no time, ...See moreGurudas was a Sanskrit teacher in a village school of undivided Bengal. While teaching he felt the absence of an up-to-date lexicon in Bengali language which has gained a new shape delinking itself from original Sanskrit. He, in no time, devoted himself to the task of reconstructing a Dictionary and spent the major part of his life in pursuit of culling vocabularies from the mouth of common people. In the wake of partition of Bengal in 1947, he came over to West Bengal and found shelter in a refugee camp. Meanwhile he lost his daughter, son and wife one after another, was thrown into abject poverty still undaunted in spirit gurudas went ahead with his mission. The only woman beside him was his widow daughter-in-law who kept vigil like unflinching flame of love and affection. As soon as his work saw the light of day the erudites came crowding to show honour. The govt. conferred a befitting award but he refused. He was averse to all these empty show of honour. See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Munna Chakrabarty Actor Actor See fewer	Dui Purush (1978)
Biplab Chatterjee Actor Actor See fewer	Abhimanyu (II) (1990)
Soumitra Chatterjee Actor Actor See fewer	The World of Apu (1959)
Avory Dutta Actor Actor See fewer	Portrait of a Life (1988)
Bankim Ghosh Actor Actor See fewer	The Zoo (1967)
Gyanesh Mukherjee Actor Actor See fewer	Banashree (1983)
Madhavi Mukherjee Actress (as Madhabi Chakraborty) Actress (as Madhabi Chakraborty) See fewer	Diba Ratrir Kabya (1970)
Sunil Mukherjee Actor Actor See fewer	Satyajiter Goppo (1998)