Harano Sur

Harano Sur
Harano Sur
Soundtrack album by Hemanta Mukherjee
Released	1957
Recorded	1956
Studio	Alo Chaya Productions Pvt Ltd
Genre	Feature Film Soundtrack
Length	0:06:44
Label	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Producer	Uttam Kumar
Hemanta Mukherjee chronology

Harano Sur
Harano Sur
	DVD cover
Directed by	Ajoy Kar
Screenplay by	Nripendrakrishna Chatterjee
Based on	Random Harvest (1942 American film)
Produced by	Uttam Kumar
Starring	Suchitra Sen; Uttam Kumar; Utpal Dutt; Pahari Sanyal
Cinematography	Ajoy Kar
Edited by	Ardhendu Chatterjee
Music by	Hemanta Mukherjee
Production; company	Alo Chaya Productions
Distributed by	Chayabani Pvt Ltd
Release date	6 September 1957;
Running time	162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Harano Sur (transl. The Lost Tune) is a 1957 Indian Bengali-language romantic drama film by Ajoy Kar, starring Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar, with music by Hemanta Mukherjee, and sung by Geeta Dutt. This is the first film that Uttam had produced along with Ajoy Kar. The film is regarded as one of the finest examples^[1] of Bengali cinema of this early period.^[2] The film is based on the 1942 American film Random Harvest.^[3]^[4] The film became the highest grossing Bengali film of 1957.

Synopsis

An amnesiac after a train accident, Alok Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is rescued on escaping from the asylum where he is admitted by Doctor Roma Banerjee (Suchitra Sen) who takes him to her father's (Pahadi Sanyal) country house in a village called Palaspur. There, while treating him she falls for him and he for her. They marry but a second accident makes him recall his life as a rich businessman in Calcutta and forget the memories spent with Roma. Roma follows him to Calcutta and meets him there, but he doesn't recognise her. He hires her as governess to his niece instead. Roma keeps trying to simulate Alok's memory but is looked at suspiciously by Lata, Alok's fiancée in Calcutta who thinks Roma is snatching Alok away from her and who complains to Alok's mother. The latter has Roma kicked out. Alok realizing she is from Palaspur and that is where he got back his memory goes there and regains his memory of times spent with Roma there.^[5]

Cast

Uttam Kumar as Alok Mukherjee
Suchitra Sen as Dr Roma Banerjee
Pahadi Sanyal as Roma's father
Chandrabati Devi as Alok mother
Utpal Dutta as Dr Majumder
Khagen Pathak as Station Master
Shailen Mukherjee as Manager
Haren Mukherjee as Dr. Haren Mukherjee
Dipak Mukherjee as Mihir Bhattacharya
Kajori Guha as Lata

Soundtrack

Hemanta Mukherjee composed the music of the film. All the lyrics were penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder.

Songs
No.	Title	Playback	Length
1.	"Tumi Je Amar"	Geeta Dutt	3:08
2.	"Aaj Dujanar Duti Path"	Hemanta Mukherjee	3:36
Total length:			6:44

Production

Harano Sur was the first film produced by Uttam Kumar along with Ajoy Kar. Uttam decided to keep Bengali cinema to national level, so he came into film production under their banner Alochaya Production Pvt Ltd. The film was based on 1942 Oscar nominated film Random Harvest which itself based on the novel of same name written by James Hilton.

Release & Reception

It was released in India on 6 September 1957 under the banner of Alochaya Production and distributed by Chayabani Private Limited.^[6]

Reviews

The Times Of India wrote The legendary Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar – that’s what this movie is all about. It’s simply their charisma, their chemistry, their presence which will captivate you throughout.^[7]

Box Office

The film became highest grossing Bengali film in 1957.^[8]

Themes

Random Harvest had already been adapted before in Tamil in 1956 as Amara Deepam and starred Sivaji Ganeshan and Savitri, which was later remade in Hindi as Amar Deep starring Dev Anand and Vyjainthimala.^[9]