Mahulbanir Sereng

Mahulbonir Sereng
Dvd cover of Mahulbonir Sereng
Directed by	Sekhar Das
Produced by	Sampa Bhattacharjee
Written by	Tapan Banerjee
Starring	Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Music by	Chirodeep Dasgupta
Cinematography	Premendu Bikash Chaki
Editing by	Sumit Ghosh
Release date(s)	13 February 2004
Running time	137 min
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Mahulbonir Sereng (Bengali: মেহুলবনীর সেরেঙ্গ Songs of Mahulbonir or Tribal song Mahulbonir ) (2004) is a Bengali film directed by Sekhar Das.^[1][2][3] This film was released at 13th Brisbane International Film Festival 2004 and 19 April 2005 at Filmfest DC in Washington.^[4]

Plot

The story of Mahulbanir Sereng is a narrative revolving around the triangular love story of Aghore (Pijush Ganguly), with his wife Saheli (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Dr. Alaktak Roy (Shilajeet Majumdar). Aghore is a police constable who works in a different place so he often stays out of hometown, in the mean time his wife Saheli gets closer with the new young doctor of their village. When Aghore came back, he get the news the Saheli is pregnant, he becomes very happy. But the all of villageman claims that the baby is the doctor's and not of Aghore's. Though Aghore tries to argue in favour of his wife and doctor but the village head calls 'Gira' by gram Panchayet (Judgement by 10 village heads). On the day of 'Gira' Saheli commits suicide and the narrator Damayanti (Rupa Ganguly) helps the doctor to run away. Another parallel story of Damayanti and Somesh Gomes (Sabyasachi Chakrobarty) goes side by side. Somesh is a social worker, the love interest of Damayanti who is the B.D.O. of that tribal area. Twelve years after this incident Damayanti comes back to the village of 'Mahulbani' and finds that besides many changes the beauty and simplicity of nature still exists.

Cast

• Sabyasachi Chakraborty
• Rupa Ganguly
• Arindam Seal
• Aparajita Auddy
• Chandrayee Ghosh
• Deb Shankar Halder
• Debesh Raychowdhury
• Kunal Mitra
• Pijush Ganguly
• Shilajeet Majumdar

Crew

• Director Sekhar Das
• Producer Shampa Bhattacharya
• Music Director Chirodeep Dasgupta

Awards

• BFJA - Best Indian Films Award(2005)
• BFJA - Most Promising Actress Award- Chandrayee Ghosh

References

1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/812506
2. ^ http://www.bollywooddreams.net.au/page.cfm?PageCode=Mahulbanir_Sereng&site_id=1&showArchived=0
3. ^ http://www.screenindia.com/old/archive/archive_fullstory.php?content_id=7332
4. ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050419/asp/calcutta/story_4633958.asp

External links

• Mahulbanir Sereng at the Internet Movie Database
• www.telegraphindia.com A Ray for a Ray; so what?s new?