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Birendra Krishna Bhadra (Bengali: বীরেন্দ্রকৃষ্ণ ভদ্র) (1905–1991) was an Indian broadcaster, playwright, actor and theatre director from Kolkata, and a contemporary of Pankaj Mallick and Nazrul Hasan. He worked for the All India Radio, India's National Radio broadcaster for several years during its early, starting 1930s, and during this period he produced and adapted several plays.
Today, he is most known for his soaring Sanskrit recitation through a two hour audio program, Mahishashura Mardini (Annihilation of Mahisasura) (1931), a collection of shlokas and songs broadcast by All India Radio Calcutta (now Kolkata) at 4 am, in the dawn of Mahalaya. He also acted and directed several plays in Bengali theatre and even wrote screenplay for film, Nishiddha Phal (1955).
Birendra Krishna Bhadra was born on August 4, 1905, to Roy Bahadur Kalikrishna and Sarala Bala Devi at a rented house in Ahiritola his maternal home, in north Kolkata. Later the family shifted to 7, Ramdhan Mitra Lane, the house bought by his grandmother Yogo Maya Devi. His father, Kali Krishna Bhadra was a linguist, fluent in 14 languages, and employed as an interpreter in a lower court and later became a known figure in the Bengali literary circles of the time. Kali Krishna married Sarala Bala Devi the second child of the then famous Police Court lawyer Kalicharan Ghosh, and in 1927 was awarded the title of Roy Bahadur. Roy Bahadur Kali Krishna had two sons, Bhupendra Krishna and Birendra Krishna.
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Plot: Bhadra and Bhama are identical twins. Bhadra is a nurse at a public health center and she takes care of the family. She has to look after Bhama, who is studying for MBBS and her brother Achuthankutty, who is a local politician. She also has to take care of her mother, grandmother and valiamma, who is insane. Achuthankutty's debts leads them to sell their house to Krishnakumar. To save their house, Bhadra meets Sridevi, Krishnakumar's sister...
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Genres: ,Actors: Thilakan (actor), Kunchan (actor), Kalabhavan Mani (actor), Biju Menon (actor), Manian Pillai Raju (actor), Pujappura Ravi (actor), Siddique (actor), Rajeev Kumar (director), Abbas (actor), M.G. Radhakrishnan (composer), Ravi Vallathol (actor), Manju Warrier (actress), Kaviyoor Renuka (actress), Kannur Sreelatha (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: P. Padmarajan (director), M.G. Soman (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Thilakan (actor), Jayabharati (actress), Ragini (actress), P. Padmarajan (writer), Ilayaraja (composer), Asokan (actor), Jayaram (actor), Venu Nagavalli (actor), Rahman (actor), Sulakshana (actress), Poojappura Radhakrishnan (actor), Kirti Singh (actress),
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