Yatrik (यात्रिक) 1952

Published on December 6, 2011 in Cinema

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Banner	New Theatres Ltd.
Director	Kartik Chatterjee
Writer	Probodh Sanyal
Producer
Orginal music	Pankaj Mullick
Cinematography	Amullya Mukherjee
Film Editing	Subodh Roy
Art Director	Sudhendu Roy
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Playback Singers	Pankaj Mullick, Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Binata Chakrabarty

Character	Actor / Actress
Brahmacharya	Abhi Bhattacharya
Probodh Kumar Sanyal	Vasant Choudhury
Rani	Arundhati Devi
	Manorama
	Molina Devi
	Tulsi Chakrabarti
	Maya Mukherjee
	Rajlaxmi

Film based on Prabodh Kumar Sanyals travelogue about his visit, presented as a search for Truth, to the Himalayas and the religious shrines at Kedarnath and Badrinath. Choudhary plays the author in both versions, Arundhati Devi in her film debut plays Rani, the widow on a pilgrimage, while Bhattacharya plays the Brahmachari in the Hindi version. A strongly mystical aura pervades the film, notably in the nature shots. *.* Yatrik, a travel story is adapted from `Maha Prasthaner Pathey by Probodh Kumar Sanyal and is set in the Himalaya mountains. . Isolated in the Himalayas are the temples of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Kailasnath. To visit these holy places, hosts of pilgrims venture upon a dangerous journey through the mountains. The Traveller in the film leaves his home in Hardwar and set out for the Himalayas. . He has travelled through and seen many parts of India Setubandha, Konarak, Dwarka and Ajanta. And now Hrishikesh and Deva Prayag. . The traveller meets fellow pilrims and these encounters provide a series of human interest episoddes. . A jovial, high-spitited and gluttonous Brahmachari whom he suspects is amember of a terroirst party of Midnapore and hiding form the police in the mountains. . Beyond Deva Prayag he meets Aghor Babu, Radharani and her mother. In a fight between Aghor Babu and the Brahmachari it si revealed that Radharani is in reality a prostitute. The Traveller leaves these companions and proceeds alone. Almost desperate he finds he has lost his way in the forests of the mountain. He is helped by a mysterious Bhairabi, a hill girl who appears out of nowhere, it seems, and show- ing him the right path, vanishes. He reaches Kedarnath and then Badrinath. Here outside the temple he meets a widowed girl and an ascetic, called Rani. Her home is in Uttar Pradesh with her he continues his travels but then they too separate.