Story, Synopsis, Trivia, Dialogues for Ogo Bodhu Sundari (2010)
Professor Uttam Kumar has small tiffs from time to time with his wife. He forgets their anniversary. His wife is furious and storms out of the house and goes away to her grandmother’s house. Both husband and wife have no parents and while Uttam has his grandfather who is alive, his wife has her grandmother who is alive.Uttam does not know how to get his wife back so he turns to his brother-in-law to help him out. His brother suggests that he should be inspired by Uttam Kumar’s Ogo Bodhu Sundari inspired by Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ and should use that method to get back his wife. He gets a call from a gentleman who had read his article in an international magazine and wants to meet him on certain matters. He tells his grandfather who suggests taking his brother-in-law along with him.Uttam and his brother-in-law go to Santiniketan and met the gentleman Mr.Madison.After meeting him, they accompany at night to watch a local tribal dance. Over there they come across a local tribal girl Phoolmoni who becomes the answer to Moushumi Chatterjee in Ogo Bodhu Sundori.Uttam decided to teach her a song, but she just cant get her pronunciation right.Uttam decides to come back to Kolkata .After coming back he discovers that Phoolmoni has come back with them as she was hiding in his car. He decides to teach her music and get her pronunciation and make her a lady. Meanwhile Sucharita, Uttam’s wife is furious over this matter as she gets minute details of everything that is going on in their house thanks to their man servant.Sucharita is advised at step by her grandmother while Uttam is being advised by his grandfather.Sucharita’s grandmother wants her to go away with London with her brother and she need not return to Uttam.Phoolmoni asks Uttam to marry her which Uttam does not want. so he asks his brother-in-law to pretend to woo her. He tries to get them together. He is successful in doing so and even organizes their marriage with the help of his grandfather. In the meantime, Phoolmoni has also learnt how to sing and improved her pronunciation.Sucharita arrives at Uttam’ s house after coming to of the marriage and thinks that he is getting married to Phoolomoni.Her grandmother even arrives there. She insults Phoolmoni in ‘English’ and tries to slap her, but is prevented from doing so by Phoolmoni herself who gives her a fitting reply back in English. Everyone is shocked including Uttam.It turns out that Phoolmoni though is a tribal is actually a PhD in Tribal Welfare from London and is Uttam’s brother-in-law girlfriend. This plot was hatched by Phoolmoni, Uttam’s brother-in-law and his grandfather as otherwise others would not have accepted their marriage. Everyone has a good laugh.
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