Ahare Mon

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Ahare Mon
Ahare Mon poster.jpg
Directed by Pratim D. Gupta
Written by Pratim D. Gupta
Screenplay by Pratim D. Gupta
Story by Pratim D. Gupta
Produced byAvishek Ghosh & Manisha
Starring Adil Hussain
Ritwick Chakraborty
Paoli Dam
Mamata Shankar
Parno Mittra
Anjan Dutt
Chitrangada Chakraborty
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Music by Avijit Kundu
Release date
  • 22 June 2018 (2018-06-22)
Running time
110 min
Country India
LanguageBengali

Ahare Mon is a 2018 Indian Bengali film directed by Pratim D. Gupta [1] and stars Adil Hussain, Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam, Parno Mittra and Chitrangada Chakraborty in the lead roles.

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Cast

Plot

A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall in love. Anjan Dutt and Mamata Shankar play two members of an old age home who elope and embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Ritwick and Parno play hustlers who plan and pull off one con job after another. Adil Hussain plays an immigration officer at the airport who comes across a ravishing frequent flyer played by Paoli Dam. Chitrangada Chakraborty plays Titli, a girl fighting a terminal disease but crazily in love with Dev.

Production

Development

Pratim D. Gupta revealed that he had been wanting to make a love story for a long time but wanted to do something offbeat. He had the airport story idea with him for a long time and later developed the other three stories which can go with the same theme of loneliness, love and companionship. Like his earlier film Shaheb Bibi Golaam, the stories get entwined turning Ahare Mon into one single story.

Casting

Pratim wrote the characters played by Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam and Parno Mittra with them in mind having worked with them in Shaheb Bibi Golaam and Maacher Jhol. The film marks the first collaboration between the director and Adil Hussain who agreed to do the film after reading just a couple of pages of the script. Chitrangada was selected after many rounds of audition for the role of Titli.

Filming

Shooting for the film started from January 2018.

Critical response

Ahare Mon opened to rave reviews with critics finding the film a heartwarming anthology of delightful love stories.

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri of Film Companion called the film "the best Bengali film of the year" giving it 4/5 stars. He wrote in his review "What makes the film work is not just how skilfully the director weaves the stories together – that’s a sine qua non-for a film like this – but how he keeps the proceedings intriguing, throwing in a twist every time you least expect it, which gives the film a lightness that belies the core underlying each story: the loneliness of the human condition." [2]

The Times of India gave the film 4/5 writing "It achieves a lot more in this short span of time than most blockbusters do with their bloated scripts." [3]

Music

The background music for Ahare Mon is composed by "Avijit Kundu" and the songs composed by Neel Dutt. Monta Ahare has been sung by Durnibar Saha and penned by filmmaker Srijit Mukherji while the lyrics of the title track, Ahare Mon, has been written by Srijato and sung by Madhubanti Bagchi. One of the songs has been written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore and sung by Anjan Dutt. The music rights have been acquired by Amara Muzik.

Ahare Mon
Soundtrack album by
Avijit Kundu, Neel Dutt
Released2018
Recorded2018
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Amara Muzik
Producer
  • Avishek Ghosh & Manisha
Singles from Ahare Mon
  1. "Monta Ahare"
    Released: 30 May 2018
  2. "Ahare Mon Title Track"
    Released: 8 June 2018
  3. "Ogo Bideshini"
    Released: 16 June 2018
  4. "Ahare Mon (Title Track) Reprise Version"
    Released: 24 June 2018

All lyrics are written by Srijit Mukherji, Srijato, Rabindranath Tagore; all music is composed by Avijit Kundu, Neel Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtist(s)Length
1."Monta Ahare"Srijit MukherjiNeel Dutt Durnibar Saha 3:26
2."Ahare Mon Title Track"SrijatoNeel DuttMadhubanti Bagchi2:46
3."Ogo Bideshini"Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore, Rearrangement : Neel Dutt Anjan Dutt 2:53
4."Ahare Mon (Title Track) Reprise Version"SrijatoNeel DuttNeel Dutt4:33

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References

  1. ↑ "'Ahare Mon' to be screened at Pondicherry International Film Festival". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Film Companion". Film Companion. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Ahare Mon movie review". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
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