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Kumkum the Dancer

📅 3/7/1940⏱️ 142 minutes7.0/10

Overview

A dance film idealising poverty made mainly to showcase Bose's talents. Labour leader Suryashankar is jailed for trade union activities and, when released, finds that his friend Jagdish has stolen his property and plagiarised his play Bhookh (Hunger). To take revenge on behalf of the poor, Suryashankar's daughter Kumkum (Bose) marries Jagdish's son Chandan (Bhattacharya). Later she collaborates in staging a play meant to expose Jagdish's evil past. The film's publicity slogan was 'She robbed her husband to feed the poor!'

Release Date

March 7, 1940

Runtime

142 minutes

Rating

7.0/10(1 votes)

Status

Released

Cast

Content Source

Data provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).