Brojobuli

Brojobuli (transl. Brojo's tales) is a 1979 Indian Bengali-language action comedy film co-written and directed by Pijush Basu.^[1] Produced by Ranjana Ghosh under the banner of Sree Loknath Chitramandir, the film is based on a short story by Gour Kishore Ghosh. It stars Uttam Kumar as Brojoraj Karforma, a veteran office clerk who entertains his colleagues with fantastical tales of his own heroic adventures.

The film features an ensemble supporting cast of Sabitri Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Dilip Roy, Kalyani Mondal, Tarun Kumar, Chinmoy Roy, Chhaya Devi, Nimu Bhowmik, Durgadas Banerjee Jr., and Bankim Ghosh, with Jahor Roy and Santosh Dutta in special appearances. Brojobuli marks the twelfth collaboration between Basu and Kumar, and also pairs Kumar and Chatterjee for the thirty-fifth time.

Music of the film is composed by Nachiketa Ghosh, with lyrics penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder. Bijoy Ghosh and Baidyanath Chatterjee respectively handled its cinematography and editing.^[2][3]

The story is about Brojoraj Karforma, also known as "Brojo Da" an experienced office clerk, who usually comes to the office very late and likes to chat with everyone. The main point of his story is his fictional heroic deeds. First he tries to knock out a freestyle wrestler with simple Bengali style. The entire audience actually tries to tell him that it is a dangerous game. But Brojo Da never listens to anyone, so he decides to fight the man and wins. Then when some young men around him ask him to arrange some tickets for a test match, he tells them about his heroism about cricket. Once he stroked the ball so hard that it broke into two pieces. One part was lost and the other part was caught by the fielder. Everyone is so impressed about his heroism that no one questions it and no one questions him about the umpire's decision. Again in the office he tells the other colleagues that he is a very close friend of Charlie Chaplin and presents an idea about his filming experience. Suddenly his boss comes and accuses him of not working. This is basically a story that actually narrates about the story and lifestyle of Brojo Da.

• Uttam Kumar as Brojoraj Karforma / Brojo Da^[4][5]
• Sabitri Chatterjee as Kadu, Brojo's second wife
• Dilip Roy as Sunil, Brojo's colleague
• Rabi Ghosh as Bishu
• Tarun Kumar as Brojo's boss
• Kalyani Mondal as Renu, Brojo's daughter
• Chinmoy Roy as Poltu
• Nimu Bhowmik as Suneet / Neetu, Brojo's colleague
• Chhaya Devi
• Durgadas Banerjee Jr. as Brojo's colleague
• Bankim Ghosh as Brojo's friend
• Montu Banerjee as Brojo's colleague
• Tarun Mitra as Jadu, Brojo's colleague
• Shibani Bose as Baani, Brojo's ex-grilfriend
• Shambhu Bhattacharya
• Sulata Chowdhury
• Jhumur Ganguly as Brojo's co-actress
• Anamika Saha as Brojo's maid-servant
• Dilip Basu
• Kalyan Chatterjee
• Phakir Das
• Kshudiram Bhattacharya

• Santosh Dutta as Dr. Gajanan Chattoraj
• Jahar Roy as Kapalik

Music of the film is composed by Nachiketa Ghosh, who died in 1976 during the production of the film. Later, his son Suparna Kanti Ghosh along with V. Balsara came on the board to develop its album. It contains seven songs, each penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder.

Brojobuli marks Ghosh's second collaboration with Basu after Sanyasi Raja (1976), and twenty sixth with Kumar after Trijama (1956), Nabajanma (1956), Prithibi Amarey Chai (1957), Bandhu (1958), Indrani (1958), Chaowa Paowa (1959), Haat Baralei Bandhu (1960), Chiradiner (1969), Bilambita Loy (1970), Nishi Padma (1970), Dhanyee Meye (1971), Stree (1972), Chhinnapatra (1972), Bon Palashir Padabali (1973), Alor Thikana (1974), Mouchak (1975), Nagar Darpane (1975), Kajallata (1975), Priyo Bandhabi (1975), Sanyasi Raja, Hotel Snow Fox (1976), Anandamela (1976), Mombati (1976), Sei Chokh (1976) and Asadharan (1977).

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