The Golden Thread (1965)
Subarnarekha
143 min
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.
- Release date
- October 1, 1965
- Country of origin
- India
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Cast
- Madhavi Mukherjee as Sita
- Satindra Bhattacharya as Abhiram as an adult
- Abhi Bhattacharya as Ishwar Chakraborty
- Gita Dey as Koushalya
- Bijon Bhattacharya as Haraprasad
- Abanish Banerjee as Hari Babu
- Shyamal Ghoshal as Benimadhab
- Ranen Ray Choudhury as Baul singer
- Jahar Roy as Mukherjee
- Umanath Bhattacharya as Akhil Babu
- Sita Mukherjee as Kajal Didi
- Ritwik Ghatak as Music teacher
- Indrani Chakrabarty as Little Sita
- Tarun as Abhiram as boy
- Sikander Azam
- Bhanu Ghosh
Crew
- Ritwik Ghatak · Director
- Umanath Bhattacharya · Writer
- Ritwik Ghatak · Writer
- Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala · Writer
- Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala · Producer
- Ustad Bahadur Khan · Composer
- Dilip Ranjan Mukhopadhyay · Cinematographer
- Ramesh Joshi · Editor