The merchant Chand Sadagar is a faithful devotee of Chandi, and Manasa attempts to attract him. Rejected by him, Manasa condemns his son, Lakhindar, to perish on the night of his marriage to the beautiful Béhula.
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Behula, a relic of early cinematic mythmaking, emerges as a haunting interplay of spiritual conviction and familial doom. The film’s narrative, steeped in Bengali folklore, is rendered with a stark visual poetry that resonates with the silent film era’s penchant for symbolic storytelling. At its core lies Chand Sadagar...
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"Behula, a relic of early cinematic mythmaking, emerges as a haunting interplay of spiritual conviction and familial doom. The film’s narrative, steeped in Bengali folklore, is rendered with a stark visual poetry that resonates with the silent film era’s penchant for symbolic storytelling. At its core lies Chand Sadagar (played by an unnamed actor), a merchant whose reverence for Chandi is both his moral compass and his fatal flaw. His refusal to entertain Manasa’s advances—a deity of serpentine ..."
