Thikadar
1940, Bengali. Directed by Prafulla Roy.
Melodrama featuring a thikadar (forest contractor), a somewhat remote figure like the landscape in which he operates. The villain is the plantation-owner named Abani Haldar, with a beautiful daughter, Latika. The thikadar saves Haldar in an accident, while later it is revealed that Haldar killed the thikadar's father and left his wife and children for dead. Latika, who loves the thikadar, succeeds in preventing the forester from taking revenge for those crimes.
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Bengali
- Rated
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- Released
- 8 November 1940
- Original title
- ঠিকাদার
- Country
- India
- Written by
- Tulsi Lahiri, Prafulla Roy
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Thikadar runs 141 minutes (2h 21m).
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Thikadar isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 November 1940. (Checked 6 November 2026.)
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Who directed Thikadar?
Thikadar (1940) was directed by Prafulla Roy and stars Tulsi Lahiri, Durgadas Bandyopadhyay, Jiban Ganguly.