''Elar Char Adhyay'' is a 2012
Bengali
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film. The film is directed by
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay or Bappaditya Banerjee ( bn, বাপ্পাদিত্য ব্যানার্জী; 28 August 1970 – 7 November 2015) was an Indian film director and poet.
Career
Bandopadhyay was the recipient of the Mo ...
, produced by Dreamz Movies and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and based on
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
's 1934 novel ''
Char Adhyay''.
Plot
The film is set in India under
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in 1940s. Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.
Location
Mostly the shooting location of Elar Char Adhyay is in Ichapur Nawabganj, a beautiful city near the bank of Ganges in North 24 Parganas West Bengal. In the movie, the palace picturized as Ela's home is originally named as Mandal Bhavan, which is one of the oldest and heritage palace of Ichapur. The school where Ela was teaching is Sridhar Bansidhar High School which is more than 100 years old. The arrival of Atin is shot in Ichapur Mandal Ghat, which is also one of the oldest Ghat of Ichapur.
Cast
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Paoli Dam
Paoli Dam (born 1980) is an Indian actress who started her career with the Bengali television serial ''Jibon Niye Khela'' (2003). She then worked in Bengali television serials such as ''Tithir Atithi'' and ''Sonar Harin''; the former ran for ...
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Indraneil Sengupta
Indraneil Sengupta is an Indian film and television actor, and a model living in Kolkata since 2004.
Career
Sengupta was a finalist of the 1999 Gladrags Manhunt Contest in which John Abraham was the winner. He modelled for designer Rohit Ba ...
*Deepankar Dey
*Shamaun Ahmed
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Rudranil Ghosh
Rudranil Ghosh is an Indian actor who works primarily in Bengali films.
Education
Rudranil Ghosh completed his early education at Santragachi Kedarnath Institution, Howrah under West Bengal State Board. He graduated from the Narasinha Dutt Col ...
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Arunima Ghosh
Arunima Ghosh is an Indian Bengali film and television actress.
Filmography
* '' Surya'' (2004)
* ''Ek Mutho Chabi'' (2005)
* '' Sangram'' (2005)
* '' Probhu Nosto Hoye Jai'' (2007)
* ''Hochheta Ki'' (2008)
* '' Apon Shatru'' (2011)
* '' L ...
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Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's '' Seemabaddha''.
Biography
Chanda was born in Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, ...
* Kamalika Chanda
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Vikram Chatterjee
Vikram Chatterjee is an Indian actor of Bengali cinema. He made his big screen debut with a small role in Mainak Bhowmik's 2012 movie '' Bedroom'' and was immediately noticed. In the same year he acted in Bappaditya Bandopadhyay's '' Elar Cha ...
* Nitya Ganguly
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See also
* ''
Muktodhara
''Muktodhara'' is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy. This is a story about the prisoners of a correctional home ‒ Presidency jail who all have a dark past life but here they are being reformed day by day.
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'', a 2012 Bengali film
References
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2012 films
Films based on works by Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
Films directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
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