Yatrik, an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n film directed by Kartick Chatterjee, depicts a group of pilgrims on an arduous trek in the high Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

. It is the Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

-language version of the Bengali film Mahaprasthaner Pathey, the film made from the book of the same name, written by Probodh Kumar Sanyal. Abhi Bhattacharya

Abhi Bhattacharya

Abhi Bhattacharya was an Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema, who is most remembered for his roles in films in 50s and the 60s, such as Yatrik , Jagriti , Anuradha and Subarnarekha...

 plays a young brahmachari

Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya is one of the four stages of life in an age-based social system as laid out in the Manu Smrti and later Classical Sanskrit texts in Hinduism. It refers to an educational period of 14–20 years which starts before the age of puberty. During this time the traditional vedic sciences are...

, while Arundhati Mukherjee

Arundhati Mukherjee

Arundhuti Devi or Arundhuti Mukherjee was an old Bengali actress who acted in several Hindi as well as Bengali films.She started her career in 1952 in the film 'Mahaprasthaner Pathey'...

 plays Rani, a strong-willed young widow who develops a soft corner for him.

The film contains many sweet and memmorable songs. A part of the film was shot at the Garhwal region in the Himalays. There are stills and videos of famous places of the Uttarakhand (then Uttar Pradesh) Himalayas like Rishikesh, Devaprayag, Kedarnath, etc.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Role
Abhi Bhattacharya	Brahmacharya
Vasant Choudhury	Probodh Kumar Sanyal
Arundhati Devi	Rani
Manorama
Molina Devi
Tulsi Chakrabarti Tulsi Chakrabarti Tulsi Chakrabarti was a virtuoso comic actor in Bengali cinema in 1940s and 1950s. His most notable role could be the lead role in Parash Pathar, directed by Satyajit Ray.-Childhood:Chakraborty was born on 3rd March, 1899 in the small village called Goari...
Maya Mukherjee
Rajlaxmi