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Chauranga
''Chauranga'' is a 2016 Hindi film. It is the debut feature film of Indian writer-director Bikas Ranjan Mishra, produced by Onir and Sanjay Suri. The film was developed at the Screenwriters' Lab organized by National Film Development Corporation of India in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival and the ScriptStation of Berlinale Talent Campus, a part of Berlin International Film Festival. The Film won Golden Gateway of India Award for Best Film (India Gold 2014) at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival. The film was released worldwide on 8 January 2016. Plot Cast *Soham Maitra as Santu *Ena Saha as Mona *Riddhi Sen as Bajrangi *Sanjay Suri as Dhaval *Tannishtha Chatterjee as Dhaniya *Dhritiman Chatterjee as Lali Pandey, the blind priest *Swatilekha Sengupta as Dhaval's mother *Arpita Chatterjee as Nidhi *Anshuman Jha as Raghu *Delzad Hiwale as Shambhu Development Bikas Mishra's script was selected by the National Film Development Corporation in 2010 for it ...
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Bikas Mishra
Bikas Ranjan Mishra is an Indian screenwriter and film director. His first feature film ''Chauranga'' released in January 2016. The film won awards at Mumbai Film Festival and Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). His short film Dance of Ganesha had its world premiere at the 16th Busan International Film Festival, and its European premiere at the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film was also shown at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in France. He is a recipient of the Hubert Bals Fund for script development. He has directed a film adaptation of renowned Bengali playwright Badal Sarkar's ''Pagla Ghoda'' which is on Hotstar. Filmography *''Dance of Ganesha'' (2011) *''Chauranga'' (2014) *''Pagla Ghoda'' (2017) *''Guy in the Sky'' (2017) Awards *2011 National Film Development Corporation of India, NFDC Incredible India Award for ''Chauranga'' *2014 Best Film (India Gold) at 16th Mumbai Film Festiv ...
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Onir
Onir (born Anirban Dhar, 1 May 1969) is an Indian film and TV director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film ''My Brother…Nikhil'', based on the life of Dominic d'Souza, starring Sanjay Suri and Purab Kohli ''it'' was one of the first mainstream Bollywood, Hindi films to deal with AIDS and same-sex relationships. Onir won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, National Award for his film ''I Am (2010 Indian film), I Am''. He has won 16 film awards in total. Life and career Early life Onir was born as Anirban Dhar in Samchi, Bhutan. His father Aparesh Dhar and mother Manjushree are of Bengali people, Bengali origin. Onir spent much of his childhood going to the cinema. The family moved to Kolkata around 1990. In Kolkata, Onir studied comparative literature and took a few film classes at Chitrabani film school. He graduated from Jadavpur University in 1989, but left before getting his post-graduate degree when he received a schol ...
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Anshuman Jha
Anshuman Jha is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films and theatre. He is known for his role in '' Love Sex Aur Dhokha''. He had been rated as one of the "Top Ten Bollywood Actors of 2010" by Rediff. He appeared in films such as ''Yeh Hai Bakrapur'' (2014), '' X: Past Is Present'' (2015), ''Chauranga'' (2016), ''Mona Darling'' (2017), ''Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain'' (2018) and '' No Fathers In Kashmir'' (2019). His 2020 Web show ''Mastram'' has had over a billion views on MX Player. He played the lead in the film ''Hum Bhi Akele Tum Bhi Akele'' (2021). He started his career as a producer with his film ''Mona Darling'' under his banner First Ray Films. He did his schooling from Manava Bharati India International School, New Delhi and graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He also has a diploma in acting from Barry John's Imago School of Acting. He was also voted as the "Advertising Face of the Year 2011" by CNBC-TV18's ''Storyboard''. He was also seen as the L ...
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Dhritiman Chatterjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's ''Pratidwandi'' (''The Adversary''). Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen, among others and is noted for his acting skills. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion. Early life Dhritiman is his screen name. He is otherwise known as Sundar Chatterjee and is quite active on the English stage in Chennai. Born on 30 May 1945, he was educated at Kolkata's St Xavier's Collegiate School and Presidency College, and the Delhi School of Economics. Chatterjee went on to pursue a parallel career in advertising, social communications and documentary filmmaking. Career In 2019, Chatterjee lent his voice for narration in ''If Not for You'', a documentary about Kolkata's long lasting love affair with legendary singe ...
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Sanjay Suri
Sanjay Suri (born 6 April 1971) is an Indian actor and film producer of Hindi cinema. He made his debut in the film ''Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi (1999)''. He went on to star in many supporting roles, but finally got his big break with ''Jhankaar Beats'' in 2003, when he got recognised by the audience as a seasoned actor. He is also the co-producer and actor in the film ''I Am''. He is also the co-founder of the film production company Anticlock Films. Personal life Sanjay Suri was born on 6 April 1971 to a family of Punjabi origin in Srinagar, Kashmir, where he spent 19 years of his life. He has an elder brother and an elder sister. Living in Srinagar, where he attended Burn Hall School, he developed a strong love for nature and the outdoors. As a child, Suri was a star squash player and was on his school and state teams. In 1990, his father was killed in a terrorist attack, and the family was forced to flee to Jammu, where they briefly lived in a refugee camp. They then shifted to ...
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Swatilekha Sengupta
Swatilekha Sengupta (''née'' Chatterjee; 22 May 1950 – 16 June 2021) was a Bengali actress. She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor. Career Swatilekha started her career in theater in Allahabad in the early 1970s, acting in productions under the direction of A.C. Banerjee. She also received guidance from B.V. Karanth, Tapas Sen, and Khaled Chowdhury. Then she moved to Kolkata and joined the theater group Nandikar in 1978. In Nandikar she worked under the direction of Rudraprasad Sengupta, whom she went on to marry. She was also the lead female protagonist in '' Ghare Baire'', a 1985 film by Satyajit Ray, against Victor Banerjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. This film was based upon a novel of the same name '' Ghare Baire'' written by the famous Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. She has also acted in films like ''Chauranga'',''Bela Seshe'', Dharmajuddha and Bela Shuru. Death Sengupta died on 16 June 2021 from complica ...
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Ena Saha
Ena Saha (born 28 May 1996), is an Indian film and television actress who predominantly appears in Bengali films and television shows. Career She has appeared in a number of Bengali TV serials, including ''Raat Bhor Bristi'', ''Bou Katha Kau'' and ''Bandhan''. She has appeared in several commercial and art-house Bengali films and a Malayalam film. Her first film is the Bengali film ''Ami Aadu'', directed by Somnath Gupta. In the film '' 1:30 am'' she played the role of Nishi. The film was well received by critics in several film festivals. In 2013, she appeared in the Malayalam film ''Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi ''Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi'' () is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language road adventure film directed and co-produced by Sameer Thahir and written by Hashir Mohamed. The film stars Dulquer Salmaan and Sunny Wayne with Dhritiman Chatt ...'', where she played the character Gauri. She is now a Producer along with her mom Banani Saha under the ba ...
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Tannishtha Chatterjee
Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actress and director best known in the west for her performance in the British film ''Brick Lane'' (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same nameTannishtha Chatterjee
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Goteborg International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979 it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors. Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In later years around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115,000 visitors. The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry. Awards the following prizes were awarded: Dragon Awards *Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset) *Dragon Award Best Acting (since 2019) *Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val) *Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary (since 2013) *Dragon Award Best International Film * Honorary Dragon ...
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Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily. ''Hindustan Times'' is one of the largest newspapers in India by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies as of November 2017. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that ''HT'' is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of India''. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh. The print location of Nagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that of Jaipur from June 2006. ''HT'' launched a youth daily ...
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