Arogya Niketan (film)

Arogya Niketan is a 1969 Bengali-language drama film directed by Bijoy Bose, based on the novel of the same name by Tarasankar Bandopadhyay. The film stars Bikash Roy, Sobha Sen, and Asit Baran. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1969. The film explores the life and changing times of a village doctor and his struggle to maintain traditional medical practices in the face of modern medicine. It portrays the clash between tradition and modernity, belief and skepticism, and the social changes occurring in rural Bengal. The central theme revolves around the doctor's dedication to his patients and his eventual acceptance of the inevitability of change.