Bioscopewala (2017)

Original title

बायस्‍कोपवाला

Directed by

Deb Medhekar

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man who travels with a bioscope to show films to children becomes a beloved figure in a young girl's life. Her family and the man share a bond that is tested by time and political changes.

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What happens

Bioscopewala (transl. Man with a bioscope) is an Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Deb Medhekar, and produced by Sunil Doshi. The film stars Danny Denzongpa and Geetanjali Thapa in lead roles and had its world premiere at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival on 28 October 2017. The film is an adaptation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 1892 short story Kabuliwala and released on 25 May 2018 in India. The official trailer of the film was released on YouTube by Fox Star Studios on 8 May 2018. Bioscopewala has taken forward the timeline of Kabuliwala, the original story written by Rabindranath Tagore, from the 19th century to somewhere in the 1980s during the Taliban regime and changed the profession of Rehmat, the central character, from a dry fruit seller to a man who goes around showing films to children through his bioscope. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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