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Avijatrik
''Avijatrik'' is a 2021 Bengali-language drama film, written and directed by Subhrajit Mitra and produced by Gaurang Jalan, co-produced by Madhur Bhandarkar. The screenplay is based on the novel ''Aparajito'' by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. The film released under the banner of Gaurang Films and Bhandarkar Entertainment. This is a sequel and concluding part of the Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy. The film premiered at the Kolkata International Film Festival in January 2021. It has released theatrically on 3 December 2021. Plot Synopsis Avijatrik is essentially the story of a journey depicting Apu's ardor to be a globetrotter, to experience outside world and immerse himself in myriad layers of life. The story revolves around a sublime bond between a father (Apu) and his 6-year-old son (Kajol) – wherein both are dependent on each other – heaping lavish affection and love for each other. The film has explored beautiful tapestry of pure interpersonal relationships to recreate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supratim Bhol
Supratim Bhol (born 10 December 1979) is an Indian cinematographer known for his works in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema. He has also worked in other regional language projects in Haryanvi, Odia and Chhattisgarhi. Supratim graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and debuted as a Cinematographer with the film Colours of Innocence (2016) directed by Manas Mukul Pal, a National Award winner. His remarkable works till now are Panchlait, national award winner Avijatrik, Aparajito, Abyakto, Lomad and national award winner Dada Lakhmi. Suprartim won the 68th National Fllm Awards for Best Cinematography Early life and education Supratim was born on 10 December 1979 in the Midnapore District of West Bengal in a farmer's family. The region is famous for Patchitra – the oldest Audio-Visual art form of India, as a result, art started nurturing in him at an early age. He was educated at the St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata and grew up in the old and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subhrajit Mitra
Subhrajit Mitra (born 18 January 1976) is a filmmaker from Kolkata, India. He is known for his work in the Bengali film industry. Career Subhrajit Mitra is an Indian filmmaker who works in the Bengali film industry. His 2021 film, '' Avijatrik'' he wanderlust of Apu which is the sequel to the ''Apu trilogy'' by Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian Film director, director, screenwriter, documentary film, documentary film director, filmmaker, author, list of essayists, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, call ..., is ranked 5th in the list of best South Asian films of 2020, garnering 27 international laurels as of 2022. The film has travelled to 5 continents, 20 cities, 22 festivals and is considered a modern-day classic by the critics. Personally, Subhrajit has won 9 laurels as the screenplay writer and director of the film. Mitra started his career at the age of 18 as a documentary director for Doordarshan. He co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditipriya Roy
Ditipriya Roy is an Indian television and film actress working in Bengali-language films and serials. She is known for portraying the character of Rani Rashmoni in the Bengali television series ''Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni''. Her movies include ''Avijatrik'', ''Bob Biswas'', ''Aay Khuku Aay'', ''Kolkata Chalantika and Achena Uttam.'' Career Ditipriya started her career in television as a child artist and acted in serials like ''Maa'', ''Durga'', ''Aparajito'', ''Byomkesh'', ''Bamakhyapa'', ''Tomay Amay Mile, Tare Ami Chokhe Dekhini.'' In 2015 she acted in ''Rajkahini'', directed by Srijit Mukherji. In 2017 she played the protagonist role in Bengali television series ''Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni''. The series was aired on Zee Bangla and completed more than 1,000 episodes. She has made her Bollywood debut in ''Bob Biswas''. Television Guest appearances Reality show Mahalaya Filmography Web series Music videos Personal life Her father Aloke Shankar Roy is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Award For Best Feature Film In Bengali
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages. Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
68th National Film Awards
The 68th National Film Awards ceremony was an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presented its annual National Film Awards to honour the best films of 2020 in Indian cinema. The awards ceremony was originally slated to be held on 3 May 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winners were declared on 22 July 2022, and the awards were presented on 30 September 2022. Selection process The Directorate of Film Festivals invited online entries and the acceptable last date for entries was until 12 March 2021. Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central Board of Film Certification between 1 January 2020, and 31 December 2020, were eligible for the film award categories. Books, critical studies, reviews or articles on cinema published in Indian newspapers, magazines, and journals between 1 January 2020, and 31 December 2020, were eligible for the best writing on cinema section. Entries of dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhur Bhandarkar
Madhur Bhandarkar (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. In 2016,Bhandarkar was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour, by the Government of India. The drama film '' Chandni Bar'' (2001), won him the National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues. Bhandarkar received the National Film Awards for the Best Feature Film and Best Director for '' Page 3'' (2005) and '' Traffic Signal'' (2007) respectively. The drama film ''Fashion'' (2008) garnered him several accolades including National Film Award, Filmfare Awards nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Madhur Co-Produced a Bengali film Avijatrik based on the novel ''Aparajito'' by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 2021 and this was Madhur's 5th National Award Madhur Bhandarkar has been nominated as society member of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute by the Informatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreelekha Mitra
Sreelekha Mitra (Bengali: শ্রীলেখা মিত্র) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. Winner of a BFJA Award and an Anandalok Award, Mitra is best known for her roles in films such as ''Hothat Brishti'' (1998), '' Kantatar'' (2006), '' Aschorjo Prodip'' (2013), ''Swade Ahlade'' (2015), ''Choukath'' (2015) and ''Rainbow Jelly'' (2018). Her first acting assignment was ''Balikar Prem'', a Bengali TV series directed by Dulal Lahiri. She rose to prominence for her role as Nabanita in the 1996 Bengali TV series ''Trishna'' directed by Anindya Sarkar. After she appeared in a host of films, her breakthrough role came with Basu Chatterjee's ''Hothat Brishti'' (1998) which was a major success at the box office. Despite the success of the film, Mitra never attained any significant elevation in her career which she claimed to be an undesirable consequence of Nepotism in Bengali cinema. She was conferred with BFJA Award and Anandalok Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bickram Ghosh
Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player. Early life He started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, who had played with Ali Akbar Khan. Career Ghosh has performed with Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ghosh performs in various avatars. His long-standing band, Rhythmscape, which performs neo-fusion music, celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2011. To celebrate the occasion Rhythmscape collaborated with Greg Ellis to perform in Kolkata and Mumbai, an event organized by Folktronic. The band also released their second album, ''Transformation'', which went on to win the Best Fusion Album at the Indian Recording Arts Awards 2012. Ghosh performs within Troikala with Assamese folk/indie singer Papon and Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni. Troikala was curated and organized by British Council in association with Folktronic. He performed as part of fusion Sufi act, "Sufusion" with vocalists Ambarish Das and Parvati Kumar, keyboardist Indraj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay () (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel, ''Pather Panchali'' (''Song of the Little Road''), ''Aparajito (Undefeated)'', ''Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon)'', and '' Aranyak''. Early life and education The Bandyopadhyay family originated in the Panitar village near Basirhat, located in the North 24 Parganas district of modern-day West Bengal. Bandyopadhyay's great-grandfather, who was an Ayurvedic physician, eventually settled in Barrackpore village, near Gopalnagar, Banagram (now Bangaon), North 24 Parganas. However, Bandyopadhyay was born in Muratipur village, near Kalyani in Nadia, at his maternal uncle's house. His father, Mahananda Bandyopadhyay, was a Sanskrit scholar and story-teller by profession. Bandyopadhyay was the eldest of the five children of Mahananda and his wife Mrinalini. His childhood home was at Barrackpore in West Bengal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arpita Chatterjee
Arpita Chatterjee ('' née'' Pal) is an Indian actress, who mostly appears in the Odia and Bengali film industry in India. She is married to actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. She made her film debut in 1999 with the film ''Tumi Ele Tai'', directed by Prabhat Roy. Some of the other films in which she has starred include '' Deva'', ''Devdas'', '' Inquilaab'', '' Prem Shakti'', ''Pratarok'', ''Dada Thakur'', '' Pratibad'', '' Utsab'' and ''Anupama''. Post-marriage, she took a break from her film career to focus on family life. In 2009, she returned to acting in '' Ekti Tarar Khonje'', directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay. She has acted in films of directors like Shakti Samanta and Rituporno Ghosh and has also appeared in commercials for ITC and Saffola. In 2014, she signed for her first Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Apu Trilogy
''The Apu Trilogy'' comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: '' Pather Panchali'' (1955), '' Aparajito'' (1956) and '' The World of Apu'' (1959). The original music for the films was composed by Ravi Shankar. The films are based on two Bengali novels written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay: '' Pather Panchali'' (1929) and ''Aparajito'' (1932). The three films went on to win many national and international awards, including three National Film Awards and seven awards from the Cannes, Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. The films were produced on a shoestring budget (''Pather Panchali'' had a budget of roughly 150,000 ($45,300—)) using an amateur cast and crew. Plot summaries The three films comprise a "coming of age" narrative in the vein of a ''bildungsroman''; they describe the childhood, education and early maturity of a young Bengali named Apu (Apurba Kumar Roy) in the early part of the 20th century. ''Pather Panchali'' (English, "Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arpita Pal
Arpita Chatterjee (''née'' Pal) is an Indian actress, who mostly appears in the Odia and Bengali film industry in India. She is married to actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. She made her film debut in 1999 with the film ''Tumi Ele Tai'', directed by Prabhat Roy. Some of the other films in which she has starred include ''Deva'', ''Devdas'', '' Inquilaab'', ''Prem Shakti'', ''Pratarok'', '' Dada Thakur'', '' Pratibad'', ''Utsab'' and ''Anupama''. Post-marriage, she took a break from her film career to focus on family life. In 2009, she returned to acting in ''Ekti Tarar Khonje'', directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay. She has acted in films of directors like Shakti Samanta and Rituporno Ghosh and has also appeared in commercials for ITC and Saffola. In 2014, she signed for her first Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
