Shraddhanjali is a 1993 Bengali drama film directed by Sreekanta Guha Thakurta[a] and produced by Bandana Das.
[4] It also stars Ranjit Mullick, Kali Banerjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Anup Kumar and Aloka Ganguly.
Previously Chumki Chowdhury was cast to portray the role of Sathi alongside Prosenjit Chatterjee and Debashree Roy.
[6][7][8] Prior to its release, the film made headlines as Debashree and Satabdi shared the screen for the first time.
[9] Subhadeep Banerjee of The Wall describes it to be an 'implausible affair' as it is sometimes impossible to cast two top-billing actresses together in a film.
[2] Ranjan Banerjee, a renowned businessman feels relieved when he is informed by his wife that his younger daughter Bobby who has androphobia, has finally agreed to take tuition from a young male tutor named Amit.
When Amit comes to his place, he tells him that he is indirectly responsible for Bobby's androphobia; his elder daughter Chobi fell in love with Bikash, her home tutor but he refused to approve their marriage as Bikash did not belong to a well-to-do family.
Amit does not reveal that he is in love with another woman named Sathi as he fears losing his job.
Sathi, along with her mother abandons her place leaving a message for Amit that she will kill herself if he does not marry Bobby.
Upon Sathi's insistence, Amit now smudges vermilion powder along the part of Bobby's hairline to honour her sacrifice.
After Gurudakshina (1987), Anjan Choudhury penned the screenplay of Shraddhanjali and Sreekanta Guha Thakurta was insisted to direct the project.
[6] Sreekanta Guha Thakurta then requested Prosenjit to convince Satabdi Roy to accept the role of Sathi.
[8] Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay who was supposed to play the role of Chandra, was replaced by Aloka Ganguly.