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kaalbela is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghose. The film stars Parambrata Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Soumitra Chatterjee and Santu Mukherjee. This film is set against the background of the Naxalite movement. Based on a 1980s novel by Samaresh Majumdar, the film sets itself up, quite self-consciously, within a certain tradition of films, namely radical political Bengali cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. It thus establishes an intertextuality and a certain connection with them. By situating itself and the story it has to tell, within this matrix of the 1970s radical Bengali cinema, Ghose anchors the film squarely within that time. The mood and the events certainly, but even the way black and white shots are used, underlines a somewhat documentary – and thus temporally limited – way these sequences are put to use.Mixed Response at Indian Box office.
Original Release
01/16/2009
Cast
Name | Character |
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Parambrata Chattopadhyay | |
Paoli Dam | Madhabilata |
Soumitra Chatterjee | Animesh's grandfather |
Arindol Bagchi | (as Arindal Bagchi) |
Kalyan Banerjee | |
Partho Banerjee | (as Partho Bandopadhyay) |
Bratya Basu | |
Asim Bhaduri | |
Bhabani Bharadwaj | |
Ananda Bhattacharya |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Parambrata Chattopadhyay | |
Paoli Dam | Madhabilata |
Soumitra Chatterjee | Animesh's grandfather |
Arindol Bagchi | (as Arindal Bagchi) |
Kalyan Banerjee | |
Partho Banerjee | (as Partho Bandopadhyay) |
Bratya Basu | |
Asim Bhaduri | |
Bhabani Bharadwaj | |
Ananda Bhattacharya | |
Tirtha Bhattacharya | (as Tirtho Bhattacharya) |
Tapas Chakraborty | |
Chhanda Chatterjee | (as Chhanda Chattopadhyay) |
Joy Chatterjee | |
Phalguni Chatterjee | (as Phalguni Chattopadhyay) |
Tamal Ray Chowdhury | (as Tamal Roychowdhury) |
Riyanka Dasgupta | |
Saron Datta | (as Sharan Dutta) |
Alok Deb | |
Shakti Dey |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tapan Kumar Das | Executive Producer |
Prasar Bharati | Producer |