Mahalaya (film)

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 had 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]

Mahalaya
Directed by	Soumik Sen
Screenplay by	Soumik Sen
Produced by	Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd
Starring	Subhasish Mukherjee Jisshu Sengupta Subhomoy Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee
Cinematography	Mrinmoy Nandi
Edited by	Niladri Roy
Music by	Debojyoti 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
Country	India
Language	Bengali

The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.

Cast

• Subhasish Mukherjee as Birendra Krishna Bhadra
• Jisshu Sengupta as Uttam Kumar
• Saptarshi Ray as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
• Prosenjit Chatterjee as Shashi Sinha, Former I & B Secretary of India.
• Subhomoy Chatterjee as Pankaj Mullick
• Kanchan Mullick as Paritosh Banerjee, Indian Administrative Service Officer, Former Joint Secretary to the Government of India and husband of Shakuntala Devi
• Jayant Kripalani as Harold Stevenson, former Director-general, Akashbani, Kolkata
• Bhaswar Chatterjee as Anil Bagchi
• Sudipa Basu as Ramarani Devi, wife of Birendra Krishna Bhadra
• Devlina Kumar as daughter of Pankaj Mullick

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.

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.

External links

• Mahalaya at IMDb