Sathi

Sathi ( Saathi or Sathee or Saathee) (Bengali: সাথী "companion") is a Bengali Movie was released in 2002. Directed by Haranath Chakraborty, the movie featured Jeet, Priyanka Trivedi, . This movie is Jeet and Priyanka Trivedi's cinematic debut.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Plot

It is remake of Tamil film Thulladha Manamum Thullum. As the title suggests ' love is blind ' so is the context of the bioscope. The movie visualises the sacrifice made by the protagonist for his love. Bijoy (Jeet) is an aspiring singer with lots of talent, who resides in a village of Burdwan district. He has a caring & loving mother & a cute & helpful mother. He comes to Calcutta on the call of a musical tycoon but when he finally arrives at his home Bijoy is shocked to find his mentor dead. He takes refugee with the alcoholic Keshtoda (Ranjeet Mallick) a person with a heart of gold. He architects a group of peers & all of them begin to work for an insurance company. In the meanwhile Bijoy views Sonali (Priyanka Trivedi) who stays in the same locality with her grandmother. Sonali knows Bijoy in a peculiar way. She has never seen him, but when Bijoy chants his numbers, she hears them utmost interest & becomes his ardent admirer. But whenever Bijoy & Sonali physically meet each other something or the other mishaps occurs which make Sonali misunderstand. Thus Sonali has a different picture of Bijoy in her sub-consciousness. She does not realize that one she admirers is the same person whom she hates. Things come to standstill, when Bijoy accidentally pushes Sonali from the stairs of her college & she becomes blind. When Bijoy comes to know about this, he is shattered. Then begins his series of sacrifices & love, he helps the financially-strained Sonali & her grandmother by giving their rent. He brings the duo at their mess when they are expelled by their landlord & finally he sells the precious ring (Bijoy's mother's gift) to allocate the fees & cost required for Sonali's eye treatment. Even when his mother expires he keeps it a secret to everyone & takes Sonali to the eye surgeon. There he knows that Sonali can regain her eyesight if she undergoes an acute & complex operation. To acquire the cost of Rs.50000, Bijoy secretly wards off to Vishakapatnam with the desting to sale one of his kidney's. Bijoy sacrifices his passion to become a vocalist & secretly supports Sonali to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer, while Sonali gets success in her first stint at the recording studios, Bijoy is arrested as a terrorist on the platform of Vizag station. Thus with Bijoy's money Sonali regains eyesight & becomes a famous singer while Bijoy is sentenced to 5 years rigorous imprisonment. The day Bijoy returns after completing his sentence turns out to be the same day when Sonali was attending her musical concert. Bijoy after arriving at Howrah station eyes the hoardings of having huge cutouts of Sonali. He reaches the spot but when he tries to contact Sonali & explain to her that he is her Bijoy, he is brutally hammered by the security. Keshtoda & Bijoy's friend arrive at the juncture. They explain to Sonali the entire truth. Sonali realises that the one she has neglected for ever is her long lost love. They reunite amidst a jubilant crowd.

Cast

• Jeet .... Bijoy
• Priyanka Trivedi .... Sonali
• Ranjit Mallick .... Keshtoda
• Sumitra Mukhopadhyay
• Amarnath Mukhopadhyay
• Anamika Saha
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
• Rajesh Sharma
• Ramen Raychowdhury
• Pushpita Mukherjee

Crew

• Producer(s):
• Director: Haranath Chakraborty
• Story: See Plot section
• Production Design:
• Dialogue:
• Lyrics:
• Editing :
• Cinematography:

Music

• Aae Bhalobasa Tomakae
• Aalap
• Bolbo Tomae
• Pora Bansi
• O bondhu (Guiter)
• Juger Sathe
• Jani na Kothae aacho
• o Bondhu Tumi

Critical reception

The movie received mixed reviews but was a commercial success.

References

External links

• Sathi at the Internet Movie Database

See also