List of Bengali films of 1961

A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 1961.^[1]

Highest-grossing[]

Top ten movies[]

Critically acclaimed films of 1961[]

Komal Gandhar
Teen Kanya [Awards: Won the President's Award, India, 1961, Silver Medal for Samapti, XI Melbourne Film Festival (Australia), 1962, Golden Boomerang (Grand Prix) for Postmaster & Samapti and Laurel Award for Postmaster & Samapti]
Jhinder Bandi
[Award: Won the President's Award, India, 1961, Regional Certificate of Merit]
Saptapadi [Award: Won the President's Award, India, 1961, Regional Certificate of Merit and a Silver Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival]

A-Z of films[]

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Release Date
Manik		–	–	13 January
Carey Saheber Munshi	Bikash Roy	–	–	20 January
		–	–	3 February
		–	–	10 February
		–	–	3 March
Lakshmi Narayan		–	–	17 March
		–	–	24 March
Komal Gandhar	Ritwik Ghatak	, Abhi Bhattacharya, Bijon Bhattacharya, , Debabrata Biswas, Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, , Supriya Devi, Gita Dey	–	31 March
		–	–	31 March
	Agradoot	–	–	14 April
Swaralipi	Asit Sen	–	–	14 April
		–	–	21 April
Arghya	Debaki Kumar Bose	–	–	5 May
Teen Kanya	Satyajit Ray	Chandana Banerjee, , Anil Chatterjee, , , Kali Banerjee, , Kumar Roy, , Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, , Gita Dey, Santosh Dutta, ,	–	5 May
	Asit Sen	–	–	19 May
	Utpal Dutt	–	–	26 May
Jhinder Bandi	Tapan Sinha	Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee,	–	9 June
		–	–	16 June
		–	–	7 July
		–	–	7 July
		–	–	14 July
		–	–	28 July
		–	–	28 July
		–	–	18 August
		–	–	25 August
		–	–	1 September
		–	–	15 September
	Mrinal Sen	–	–	15 September
(Without Dialogue)		–	–	20 October
Saptapadi	Ajoy Kar	Chhabi Biswas, Chhaya Devi, Utpal Dutt, Tarun Kumar, Uttam Kumar, , Suchitra Sen, (voice over)	–	20 October
		–	–	27 October
	Arabinda Mukhopadhyay	–	–	10 November
	Chitta Bose	–	–	17 November
		–	–	17 November
	Mrinal Sen (Script-Writer)	–	–	8 December
Rabindranath Tagore	Satyajit Ray	Raya Chatterjee, Sovanlal Ganguly, Smaran Ghosal	Documentary

References[]

^ Bengali film directory

[1] Bengali film directory

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