Mahishasur Marddini (2022)

Original title

মহিষাসুরমর্দিনী

Directed by

Ranjan Ghosh

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 06m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Bengali film that blends theatre and cinema in its form and style. It follows characters played by Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee and Parambrata Chattopadhyay through an experimental narrative.

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What happens

Mahishasur Marddini – A Night to Remember (মহিষাসুরমর্দ্দিনী) is a 2022 India-Bengali film written and directed by acclaimed director Ranjan Ghosh. It stars Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee and Parambrata Chattopadhyay, and is considered as the director's boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema. The film was produced by AVA Film Productions Pvt. Ltd. and co-produced by Vinayak Pictures. The film was nominated in a list of Top 50 Indian Feature Films by FIPRESCI-India for their annual jury Award, the Grand Prix 2022. The film was screened at the Film and Television Institute of India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Hyderabad, English and Foreign Languages University, University of Kerala, SNDT Women's University, Pondicherry University, IIT Bombay (Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The Indian People's Theatre Association, Kollam District Committee, Kerala, screened the film in August 2023. Earlier, it was screened at one of the oldest and most prestigious theatre festivals in India, the 21st IHC Theatre Festival, organized by the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in September 2022. With that, it became the first Indian feature film to be screened at any theatre festival anywhere in India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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