Dotara (film)

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Dotara
Dotara Film Poster.jpg
Teaser poster
Directed byAmitabha Dasgupta
Screenplay byAmitabha Dasgupta
Story byAmitabha Dasgupta
Produced byTapasi Dasgupta
Starring Snigdha Pandey
Subrat Dutta
Biswajit Chakraborty
Sonali Chowdhury
Dipankar Dey
Edited byTapas Chakraborty
Music byShanku Mitra
Kalyan Sen Barat
Production
company
Tapasi Dasgupta Communication
Release date
  • 11 January 2019 (2019-01-11)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Dotara is an action-drama Bengali film directed by Amitabha Dasgupta and produced by Tapasi Dasgupta Communication. The film starring an ensemble of Subrat Dutta, Rajesh Sharma, Snigdha Pandey, Sonalee Chaudhuri, Dipankar Dey, Biswajit Chakraborty, Suman Banerjee, Pradip Bhattacharya and Swantana Basu, explores the idea of identity crisis among a small community of people settled in the north-eastern part of West Bengal. The film was theatrically released on 11 January 2019. [1] [2]

Contents

Cast

Release

The official trailer of the film was launched on 22 July 2018. [3]

The film was theatrically released on 11 January 2019. [4]

Soundtrack

Dotara
Soundtrack album by
Shanku Mitra and Kalyan Sen Barat
Released18 July 2018
Recorded2018
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length33:36
LanguageBengali
Label Zee Music Company
External audio
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The soundtrack was composed by Shanku Mitra and Kalyan Sen Barat on lyrics of Gautam Ghoshal, Shyamal Sengupta, Tarun Sinha and Amitabha Dasgupta.

Track list
No.TitleLyricsMusicSingerLength
1."Khuje Jai Purono Khatay"Gautam GhoshalShanku Mitra Raghab Chatterjee, Smita Bakshi7:24
2."Danay Jomeche Dhulo"Gautam GhoshalShanku Mitra Shaan 4:38
3."Tomake Tomakei Mone Pore"Shyamal SenguptaShanku Mitra Javed Ali 5:25
4."Oho Re Dotara Mor"Tarun SinhaKalyan Sen Barat Lopamudra Mitra 6:03
5."Ogo Aakash Balo Balo"Shyamal SenguptaShanku Mitra Madhushree 4:31
6."Kon Ajana Mon"Amitabha DasguptaShanku Mitra Soham 5:35
Total length:33:36

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References

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