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Hrishikesh Mukherjee giving the muhurat clap for Nabendu Ghosh’s directorial venture Dagdar Baboo starring Dharmendra and Jaya Bhaduri. The film unfortunately stayed incomplete.
Nabendu Ghosh’s first directorial venture that never saw completion, was a subject close to his heart. The story Maila Aanchal by Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ explored the deep-rooted caste discrimination which was predominant in Bihar. Ghosh was against it very strongly, as he had already written Sujata. This story was about a doctor ‘Dagdar Baboo’ who was an orphan and had been raised by a family but even as a doctor when he goes into the villages, the first question he is asked everywhere is ‘what is your caste?’
“My father believed that this ‘maila aanchal’ of the motherland must be cleansed. He had wanted to make this film since 1963,” says Ratnottama Sengupta. Producer SH Munshi who was from Gaya, Bihar wanted this film to be made and was insistent that Nabendu Ghosh should direct this film. He had earlier produced Baap Beti, directed by Bimal Roy based on Nabendu Ghosh’s story, which starred Ranjan along with Tabassum and Asha Parekh and Naaz as a child artists.
However, as fate would have it, the movie got stalled twice and after 80 percent of it had been completed, the untimely death of SH Munshi shelved it forever. The film which starred Jaya Bhaduri and Dharmendra is not traceable anymore. The music by RD Burman is also lost. The RD Burman Kosh by Vishwas Nerurkar lists this title as Abha Chitram’s ‘Dagdar Babu’; Director: Nabendu Ghosh; Producer: SH Munshi; Lyricist: Yogesh; with Dharamendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Utpal Dutt, Urmila Bhatt, Kali Banerjee, Amjad Khan.
