''Network'' is an Indian Bengali language

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

, starring

Saswata Chatterjee Saswata Chatterjee (born 19 December 1970) is an Indian actor of television and films based in Kolkata. Born to actor Subhendu Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee began his career with a Hindi serial directed by Saibal Mitra, based on Samaresh Majum ...

Sabyasachi Chakraborty Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television. He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda, and Kakababu. Personal life His parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabart ...

, Rini Ghosh, Bhaskar Banerjee, Indrajit Mazumder, Saptarshi Roy, Kartikey Tripathi, Eshani Ghosh,

Saayoni Ghosh Saayoni Ghosh (born 27 January 1993) is an Indian Bengali film and television actress. She is also a singer and a politician. Her acting debut was with a telefilm ''Ichhe Dana'', and her first appearance on the big screen was with a short role ...

and Anindya Chatterjee, Darshana Banik. The film is the debut feature of director

Saptaswa Basu Saptaswa Basu is a Bengali film director, producer, writer and editor who has been involved in directing films, telefilms and ad films. Career He has founded his production house Neo Studios and has been producing his films under the same ...

who has co-written the screenplay with Rini Ghosh. This is the first Bengali feature film to feature a song of the RnB genre which is composed and sung by Raz Dee. The promotional track of this film is sung by Shaan and composed by Dabbu. The other songs are composed by Chirantan Banerjee and Aviraj Sen. The film was theatrically released on 28 June 2019.

Plot

Abhijit Ganguly aswata Chatterjeeis a film director who has long lost his fame. After his daughter's death he has turned into a walking shadow, who is recognized by no one. When he gets to know about his terminal disease which will allow him to live only for one more year, he decides to put in all his own resources to make a new film and make a comeback to regain his lost fame. He helped by his lawyer friend Subrata (Bhaskar Bannerjee), teams up with a group of talented actors and production management team including Raj and Shreya, who become very trusted to him. However, he gets betrayed by these very associates and is left ruined. His arch rival Arindam (Sabyasachi Chakraborty) induces Raj n Shreya to sell the script and offers them the role of hero and heroine. Broken Abhijit has no way out so with his last ditch effort He creates a reality TV show named "Their Life", a unique show which deals with celebrity lifestyle. Through this show, he starts exploring and exposing Raj, Sreya and Arindam to take revenge on the persons who betrayed him one by one.

Cast

as Abhijit Ganguly *

as Arindam Chakraborty * Rini Ghosh as Shreya * Indrajit Mazumder as Raj * Kartikey Tripathi as Subho * Bhaskar Banerjee as Subrata * Eshani Ghosh as Puja *

as Priyanka (special appearance) * Saptarshi Roy as Arjun Chatterjee * Akshay Kapoor as Mr. Agarwal * Anindya Chatterjee as Joy (special appearance) * Darshana Banik as Prerna (special appearance) * Rana Basu Thakur as Mr. Bose

Filming

The film commenced its

principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as a ...

in mid 2017 and was wrapped up in early 2018. It was completed in three schedules including a song schedule, with intervals in between, to give time for rough edits and re-shoot decisions. A separate schedule was planned to shoot the climax sequence. The film has been shot in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, Bakrahat, Tajpur sea beach, Purple Movie town, Moon city studios and Raichak on Ganges. A few stock shots for the TV show sequence were shot in Andaman,

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and

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...

Soundtrack

References

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*{{IMDb title, id=5057746, title=Network Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films 2019 films Indian thriller films 2019 thriller films