Rajkahini (2015)

Original title

রাজকাহিনী

Directed by

Srijit Mukherji

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 40m

Rated

UA

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set during the 1947 partition of Bengal, the story follows eleven women living in a brothel who refuse to leave their home when a new border line is drawn through it. They stand up to the authorities and face violent conflict as their world is torn apart.

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What happens

Rajkahini (transl. Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an Indian Bengali-language epic period action drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji. The shooting of the film was completed in June 2015 and the film was released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee and Jaya Ahsan in other pivotal roles. The film was a critical and commercial success. It has since then been remade in Hindi by Mukherji as Begum Jaan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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