This chapter of his life was the plot for yet another film, Abhaya O Srikanta (1965). Iti Srikanta shows this conflict of the man torn between the court singer and the sage.Īfter leaving Rajlakshmi, and before meeting Kamal Lata, Srikanta goes to Burma and meets Abhaya on the way. Played by hit pair Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen again, Srikanta and Kamal Lata tell the story of an eternal, selfless love that is complete but only in separation. In Kamal Lata (1969), Srikanta falls in love with a Vaishnavi (worshipper of Lord Vishnu). In the film Rajakshmi O Srikanta (1958), the bohemian protagonist played by Uttam Kumar finds his childhood love at a rich friend’s ‘mehfil’, as singer Pyaribai (Suchitra Sen), and goes after her, only to leave her again. The movies mainly dealt with specific chapters from Srikanta’s life, barring the most recent one, Iti Srikanta (2004) by Anjan Das, which tries to give a complete picture of the character. Many believed he took inspiration for Srikanta from his own life. There had been several movies, mostly in Bangla, on this particular character nurtured by Sarat Chandra for over a quarter of a century. The four-part series chronicled the protagonist’s life on the move and the characters that influenced him. A year later, the 13-part story was published as a book and called Srikanta-Part I. Srikantaįirst serialised in 1916 in Bangla monthly magazine Bharatbarsha, the travelogue of Srikanta went on to became a big hit. On his 139th birthday, here is a look at some of the works that made Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay immortal. The day he gets that direction, he becomes the messiah,” Prabhakar wrote about his protagonist who thought ill of none.

“A vagabond has a lot of qualities but is directionless.

On the sobriquet Awara Masiha, Prabhakar had said he wanted to tell the world how the vagabond free spirit became the saviour of the oppressed souls.

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