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Hamrahi (transl. Companion/Partner), is a 1945 Hindi social drama film of Indian cinema. The bilingual film was a remake of its popular Bengali version called Udayer Pathey (1944). Bimal Roy, after working as a cinematographer with New Theatres, Calcutta, launched into feature film direction. Udayer Pathey was Roy's debut film as a director of Bengali films, while Hamrahi was his first directorial venture in Hindi cinema. The original story and dialogues for the Bengali version were written by Jyotirmoy Roy, with the dialogues in Hindi written by Mohanlal Bajpai. It was produced by New Theatres, Calcutta, and the cinematographer was Bimal Roy. The music direction was by Raichand Boral and the lyrics were by Zakir Husain. The film included Rabindranath Tagore's song, "Jana Gana Mana", even before it became the national anthem of India.

The story was similar in theme to those used frequently for screen, highlighting the disparity between the rich and poor. Radhamohan Bhattacharya as Anup, an idealistic man from the poor ranks of society takes on the exploiting capitalist group represented by Rajendra. Binota Roy plays the role of Gopa, Anup's love interest and companion, who belongs to a wealthy family.

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