8:08 Er Bongaon Local

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8:08 Er Bongaon Local
Bengali ০৮:০৮ এর বনগাঁ লোকাল
Directed byDebaditya Bandopadhyay
Written byPadnmanabha Dasgupta
Produced byTorun Raut
Starring
CinematographyProtip Mukhopadhyay
Basob Mallick
Edited bySanjib Datta
Music by Tanmoy Bose
Production
company
Unimass Entertainment
Release date
27 April 2012
Running time
123 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

8:08 Er Bongaon Local is a Bengali social drama film directed by Debaditya Bandyopadhyay and produced by Torun Raut. This film was released on 27 April 2012 under the banner of Unimass Entertainment. [1] [2] This movie was based on an infamous incident of eve teasing and murder at Barasat, North 24 Parganas in 2011. [3] [4]

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Plot

Ananta Das is a middle-class common man who commutes daily on the 8:08 A.M. Bongaon Local to Sealdah for his office job. During his regular journey towards Kolkata, he realizes that people have stopped protesting against any form of injustice due to fear or depression, and he, too, has become spineless like others. However, an incident shocks him and changes his mindset completely. One day, a student is killed by goons for protesting against the eve-teasing of his elder sister. At first, Ananta refrains from taking action, but later he bursts out with anger and protests against every wrong deed in his surroundings.

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