Shah Jahan Regency

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Shah Jahan Regency
Shah jahan regency poster.jpeg
Theatrical poster
Directed by Srijit Mukherji
Written bySrijit Mukherji
Screenplay by Srijit Mukherjee
Based on Chowringhee by Mani Shankar Mukherjee
Starring
CinematographyGairik Sarkar
Edited byPronoy Dasgupta
Music by Indraadip Das Gupta
Production
company
Distributed by SVF Entertainment
Release date
  • 18 January 2019 (2019-01-18)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Shah Jahan Regency is an Indian Bengali drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji, [1] under the banner of SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd, starring Abir Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Anirban Bhattacharya, Swastika Mukherjee, Rudranil Ghosh and Rittika Sen while Rituparna Sengupta and Babul Supriyo appear in Guest appearances. [2] The movie, based on the popular novel Chowringhee by Mani Shankar Mukherjee, was released on 18 January 2019. [1]

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Plot

The movie is based on the well-known novel Chowringhee by popular Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukherjee (Sankar). [3] The 1968 film Chowringhee is an iconic Bengali film, based on the namesake novel, and starring Supriya Devi, Uttam Kumar, Subhendu Chatterjee,Anjana Bhowmik , Utpal Dutt and Biswajit.

Cast

Release

The official trailer of the film was launched by SVF on 20 December 2018. [4]

Soundtrack

Shah Jahan Regency
Soundtrack album by
Anupam Roy and Prasen
Released2 March 2019
Genre Featured Film Soundtrack
Length34:38
LanguageBengali
Label SVF
Anupam Roy chronology
Debi
(2018)
Shah Jahan Regency
(2019)
Konttho
(2019)

The soundtrack was composed by Anupam Roy and Prasen on lyrics of Anupam Roy, Dipangshu Acharya and Ritam Sen.

Track list
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Kichchu Chaini Aami"Dipangshu AcharyaPrasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee) Anirban Bhattacharya 6:49
2."Ghure Takao"Anupam RoyAnupam Roy Anupam Roy 3:44
3."Bolo Na Radhika"Ritam senPrasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee) Monali Thakur 4:33
4."Rondhre Rondhre Paap"Anupam RoyAnupam RoyAnupam Roy5:38
5."Jawkhon Porbena Mor"Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath TagoreRupankar Bagchi7:42
6."Kichchu Chaini Aami (Female)"Dipangshu AcharyaPrasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee)Madhubanti Bagchi6:17
Total length:34:38

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