Kshudhita Pashan is a Bengali-language epic period horror film directed by Tapan Sinha. Produced by Hemen Ganguly, it is based on an eponymous 1895 short story of Rabindranath Tagore.(Eng: "The Hungry Stones"). This film was released in 1960 and received National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. Music direction was done by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
Plot A young tax collector is posted to a small town. He starts to reside in an abandoned old palace which is rumoured to be haunted. Local people try to warn him that whoever has attempted to stay there has either gone mad or died because the stones of the building are hungry. He realizes that a mysterious beautiful lady roams around the building at night.
Cast Soumitra Chatterjee Arundhati Devi Chhabi Biswas Radhamohan Bhattacharya as Karim Khan Dilip Roy Padma Devi Robin Banerjee Arun Mukherjee Awards
1960: National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film 1960: Best Film-Cork festival, Ireland
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