Mahalaya (film)

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Mahalaya
Directed by Soumik Sen
Screenplay bySoumik Sen
Produced byNideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd
Starring Subhasish Mukherjee
Jisshu Sengupta
Subhomoy Chatterjee
Prosenjit Chatterjee
CinematographyMrinmoy Nandi
Edited byNiladri Roy
Music byDebojyoti Mishra
Production
companies
Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd
Distributed by SVF
Release date
  • 1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)(India)
Running time
108 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Mahalaya (2019) is an Indian Bengali language drama film directed by Soumik Sen and produced by Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd. The film narrates an incident in Bengal in 1976, when Birendra Krishna Bhadra narrated and Pankaj Mullick composed widely popular Mahisasuramardini program, which has been playing on All India Radio since 1931 on the eve of Mahalaya, was replaced by a new program Durga Durgatiharini, narrated by Bengali film actor Uttam Kumar and composed by Hemanta Mukherjee. Subhasish Mukhopadhyay played the role of Bhadra and Jisshu Sengupta played the role of Uttam Kumar. [1] [2]

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The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.

Cast

Release

The official trailer of the film was released by Nideas Creations & Productions on 9 February 2019. [3]

The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.

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References

  1. "Mahalaya Review {3.5/5}: The film does a fair job of merging the facts with the screenplay till the end credits roll". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  2. "Mahalaya film review: Making a cultural statement". The Statesman. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  3. "Mahalaya Official Trailer - Jisshu - Subhasish - Subhomoy - Prosenjit - Soumik Sen - Nideas". YouTube. Nideas. 9 February 2019.