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Cast
Saswata Chatterjee | ... |
Nilkantha Bagchi
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Ananya Chatterjee | ... |
Durga
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Abir Chatterjee | ... |
Dr. S. P. Mukherjee
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Rahul Banerjee | ... |
Anil Chatterjee
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Joydeep Mukherjee | ... |
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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Abhijit Guha | ... |
Salil Choudhury
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Padmanabha Dasgupta | ... |
Kali Banerjee
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Anindya Bose | ... |
Mrinal Sen
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Mumtaz Sorcar | ... |
Supriya Devi
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Bidipta Chakraborty | ... |
Shobha Sen
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Subhasish Mukherjee | ... |
Bijon Bhattacharya
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Biswajit Chakraborty | ... |
Charuprakash Ghosh
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Arup Kumar Ganguly | ... |
Freedom Fighter
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Anindya Pulak Banerjee | ... |
Mental Asylum Patient
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Debapratim Dasgupta | ... |
Mental Asylum Patient
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Arjun Dasgupta | ... |
Critic
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Abhinandan Dutta | ... |
Freedom fighter
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Deboprasad Halder |
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Directed by
Kamaleswar Mukherjee |
Written by
Kamaleswar Mukherjee | ... | (dialogue) |
Kamaleswar Mukherjee | ... | (screenplay) |
Kamaleswar Mukherjee | ... | (story) |
Produced by
Shrikant Mohta | ... | producer |
Mahendra Soni | ... | producer |
Music by
Debojyoti Mishra | ... | (as Debajyoti Mishra) |
Cinematography by
Soumik Haldar |
Editing by
Rabiranjan Maitra | ... | (as Raviranjan Maitra) |
Editorial Department
Tushar Desai | ... | colorist |
Art Direction by
Tanmoy Chakraborty |
Costume Design by
Sabarni Das | ... | costume designer: |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ritesh Chawla | ... | first assistant director |
Abhinandan Dutta | ... | associate director |
Pradip Mistri | ... | assistant director |
Roma Singh | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Bishwadeep Chatterjee | ... | sound designer |
M. Lakshmi Naidu | ... | associate sound designer / sound editor |
Anindit Roy | ... | dialogue editor |
Music Department
Abbasuddin | ... | lyrics |
Salil Choudhury | ... | lyrics |
Anurup Mallick | ... | lyrics |
Rabindranath Tagore | ... | lyrics |
Additional Crew
Tanushree Shankar | ... | choreographer |
Production Companies
Distributors
- SVF Entertainment (2013) (India) (theatrical) (as Shree Venkatesh Films)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- A Grinning Tree Production (Publicity Poster)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon, a medium to portray struggle of common men. He was successful neither in his career nor he could he become a good family man or husband. Still he was an artist who never compromised for personal gain, fame or profit. The story of the film starts in 1969 and deals with Ritwik Ghatak's time spent in a mental asylum. It shows Nilkantha being admitted to mental asylum under the supervision of Doctor S. P. Mukherjee. S. P. Mukherjee learns that the Prime Minister of India knows Nilkantha and is fond of his works and may request the hospital authority to take special care of him. In the hospital a police officer sees Nilkantha and tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a wasted drunkard. Another patient of hospital mocks Nilkantha as "disgraced intellectual". Even he was undergoing treatment in the hospitals, he writes a play and stages it with other asylum patients. The film shows how Durga (Nilkantha's wife) wants to leave him saying "separation is essential". Nilkantha witnessed partition of Bengal and its devastating effect and in his youth became attracted towards communism. Throughout the film Nilkantha's mental agony, struggles, inner contradictions, disappointments as well as financial troubles faced by him are shown. He clearly tells, it is not possible for him to make entertaining or commercial films. During a discussion Nilkantha asks Doctor Mukherjee that should a man perfome mujra at a time when the society is burning? He also tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a "people's artist" and that is his job. The film also shows the atmosphere of Bengal during Tebhaga and Naxalite movements. A scene has been shown in the film where a book named "How to be a good communist?" is burning. This scene symbolises Ghatak's dissatisfaction with India's communist politics. When Durga tells Nilkantha that they don't have a single rupee to run the family, Nilkantha readily replies, it is not money but it is one's work which will remain forever. Written by rupak_speaking |
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Trivia | This is a biographical film about the Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. But the main character of this film named Nilkantha Bagchi, because this is the main character name in Ritwik Ghataks last film 'Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo' in which the director himself played the lead role highly influenced by his own sad biography. See more » |
Movie Connections | Referenced in Uma (2018). See more » |
Soundtracks | Amar Onge Onge See more » |