Shyam Singha Roy (2021)

Original title

శ్యామ్ సింగ రాయ్

Directed by

Rahul Sankrityan

Genre

romantic television drama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 37m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aspiring filmmaker starts having visions of a past life as a social reformer in 1970s Kolkata. He uncovers a connection between his own story and the earlier life.

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What happens

Shyam Singha Roy is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language period romantic action drama film directed by Rahul Sankrityan. Partly set in the backdrop of Kolkata in the 1970s, it is based on the theme of reincarnation. The film stars Nani in a dual role alongside Sai Pallavi and Krithi Shetty in the female leads with Madonna Sebastian and Rahul Ravindran in the supporting roles. The film tells the story of Vasu, an aspiring director who is blamed for plagiarism, as he starts to experience visions of his previous life as Shyam Singha Roy, a fierce Bengali social reformer. The film was announced in February 2020. Principal photography took place from December 2020 to July 2021 in Hyderabad and Kolkata. It was theatrically released on 24 December 2021 and opened to mixed to positive reviews with critics praising the direction, story, music, editing, cinematography and cast performances while criticizing the screenplay. It became the seventh highest-grossing Telugu film of 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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