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Chheley Kaar (transl. Whose Child?) is a 1954 Indian Bengali-language children's comedy film directed by Chitta Basu and produced by Charan Chitra. This film received President's Silver Medal in National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1954. The film was remade in Hindi as Bandish starring Ashok Kumar and Meena Kumari. The film was also remade in Tamil as Yaar Paiyyan and in Malayalam as Bhagyamudra.

Plot

Tomato is an orphan who lives with his adoptive father. His father is very sick, suffering from a virulent disease, and will die within a few months. He instructed Tomato to take shelter with a rich person, Kunal Sen. Tomato approaches Kunal in a park and refers to him as father. Shocked, Kunal tries to escape from the unknown child Tomato, but cannot. After many obstacles and chaos, Kunal and his girlfriend Mili start loving Tomato.

Cast

• Bikash Roy as Kunal Sen
• Bhanu Banerjee as Monty
• Chhabi Biswas as Kunal's father
• Arundhati Devi as Mili
• Nabadwip Haldar as Guard at Children's Home
• Jahor Roy as Robin
• Suprava Mukherjee as Kunal's mother
• Jiben Bose as Kunal's Friend
• Master Tilak as Tomato
• Asha Devi as Pishima
• Sadhna Roy Choudhury as Superintendent of Children's home

References

1. "Chheley Kaar (1954)". indiacine.ma. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
2. Deepa Gahlot (October 2015). Take-2: 50 Films That Deserve a New Audience. ISBN 9789384544850. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
3. Menon, Ajay (3 December 2010). "Old is Gold: Tamil Movies made in Malayalam". Old is Gold. Archived from the original on 8 February 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2021.

External links

• Chheley Kaar at IMDb

• 1953 films
• 1954 films
• Bengali-language Indian films
• 1950s romantic comedy-drama films
• Indian romantic comedy-drama films
• Bengali films remade in other languages
• Best Bengali Feature Film National Film Award winners
• 1950s Bengali-language films
• 1954 comedy films
• 1953 comedy films
• 1953 drama films
• 1954 drama films
• Indian black-and-white films