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Director:
Rituparno Ghosh
Writers:
Rituparno Ghosh (screenplay)
Rabindranath Tagore (novel)
Contact:
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Release Date:
23 August 2006 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The book, Binodini, is the story of a young woman, who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies soon after they are married... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Helen, Aishwarya, Akshay named for Padma Shri
 (From BollywoodWorld. 26 January 2009, 2:38 AM, PST)

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User Comments:
A nearly satisfying period drama more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Aishwarya Rai ... Binodini
Prasenjit Chatterjee ... Mahendra
Raima Sen ... Ashalata
Lily Chakravarty ... Rajlakshmi, Mahendra's mother (as Lilly Chakraborty)
Tota Roy Chowdhury ... Behari
Sonali Chakrabarti
Sudeshna Roy
Mousumi Saha
Suchita Ray Chaudhury
Zarin Chowdhury
Abhishek Bose
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bharati Devi ... Dying woman at varanasi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Choker Bali: A Passion Play (International: English title)
Sand in the Eye (India: English title)
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Runtime:
167 min | Switzerland:120 min (Locarno Film Festival) | Germany:145 min (Bollywood Festival Stuttgart) | Germany:120 min (DVD)
Country:
India
Language:
Bengali
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Australia:PG | UK:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Though she is one of the highest paid actresses, Aishwarya Rai did this film for free. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Binodini comes to Kolkata before the Ambubachi festival, which falls in the month of June. But while talking to Behari in the picnic scene she says that she has been here since Shravana (mid July to mid August). more
Movie Connections:
Version of Chokher Bali (1938) more

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A nearly satisfying period drama, 4 February 2009
9/10

Its very tough to portray a Tagore novel along cinematographic lines.And if you forget an obscure production of 1967 then its the first time that chokher bali has been done on a grand scale. Overall the sets looked fantastic with the right touches for making a successful period drama.Prasenjit,so used to doing crass commercial stuff made a good effort.I saw the Bengali version and found that Aishwariya's voice was dubbed,which made her dialog delivery a bit poor. While the director did a good job portraying each of the characters with finesse,yet there was very little in the way of meaningful plot,probably a lack of the story itself.However the development of the characters including those with minor roles seem to be the strongest point.Its tough to make some Tagore stories into films,as only the visual parts seem to get realized.

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