KANAN’s first release in the New Theatres’ although Bidyapati was

started earlier

Producer  :  New Theatres’  Direction  :  P.C.Barua  Music  :  Pankaj Mallick

Story  //  Dialogues :  P.C.Barua  //  Sajani Kanta Das  //  Phani Majumdar

Lyrics  :  Rabindra Nath Tagore  //  Sajani Kanta Das  //  Ajoy Bhattacharya

Camera  :  Bimal Roy  Assisted by  :  Robi Dhar Editor  :  Kali Raha

Sound  :  Atul Chatterjee  Assisted by  :  Moni Bose

Assistance In Music  :  TaraDey  //  Asfak Hussain

Assistant Director  :  Phani Majumdar  //  Bibhuti Chakraborty 

                                       Soumen Mukherjee

Production Manager  :  P.N.Roy

Production Assistants  :  Pulin Ghosh  //  Prakash Ghosh

                                               Anath Maitra  //  Souren Sen

Cast  :  P.C.Barua  ………………………………Prashanta

            Sailen Choudhury ……………………...Mr Mallick

            Indu Mukherjee …………………………Bipul

            Debabala ………………………………..Bipul’s mother

            Pankaj Mallick ………………………….Pahari

            Menoka ………………………………….Jharna

            Amar Mallick ……………………………Sardar

            Ahi Sanyal ………………………………Coolie

            Kanak Narayan  //  Bibhuti Chakraborty  //  Sudhir

            Nawab Khan  //  Kashi Choudhury  //  Brajabasi

            Jatin Dey  //  Lakshmi  //  Saradeb Roy  //  Sukumar

            KANAN  ………………………………….Chitra

Songs  of KANAN  : 1) MEGAPHONE - JNG 5173-AAJ SABAR

RANGE RANG MISHATE HOBE OMC 8087 and TAAR BIDAY

BELAR MALAKHANI AMAAR GALE RE -OMC 8088 

2) MEGAPHONE-JNG 5227-OGO SUNDARA MANER GAHANE

TOMAR MURATIKHANI-OMC 8089 (other side Bidyapati song)

Widely accepted as the first film to use Rabindra Sangeet  it is

perhaps forgotten that the film TALKIE OF TALKIES (14/1/37)

had one song by Tagore-KE ROY BHULEY TOMAR MOHAN

RUPEY….However, the credit of reaching Tagore’s music to

the masses goes to MUKTI. KANAN’s rendering of AAJ SABAR

RANGE in her mellifluous voice presented listeners an entirely

new style of Rabindranath’s song hitherto unknown. The

unprecedented popularity of KANAN and Pankaj’s songs in

MUKTI  played a very major role in creating a mass appeal for

this kind of songs……..

MUKTI was perhaps the first film to use the name Kanan Devi

instead of the earlier used name Kanan Bala

We have been surprised and delighted to see Srimati KANAN BALA

in a new type of role-said a leading Bengali daily……................

KANAN has performed very well in her new place of work, her

songs touch the heart, said another…….