Antony Firingee (1967)

Antony Firingee is a Bengali-language biography film from 1967 directed by Sunil Bannerjee, starring Arun Kumar Chatterjee and Tanuja.

Antony Firingee is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language biographical musical drama film written and directed by Sunil Bannerjee. Produced by Bholanath Roy under the banner of B. N. Roy Productions, it stars Uttam Kumar and Tanuja on the lead. It is a biopic based on the life of Anthony Firingee (Hensman Anthony), a Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin. Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Nirupoma. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.

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