Char Adhyay

Char Adhyay
Directed by Kumar Shahani
Produced by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)
Doordarshan
Written by Kumar Shahani
Udayan Vajpeyi (dialogue)
Rimli Bhattacharya (consultant)
Based on Char Adhyay (1934)
by Rabindranath Tagore
Music by Vanraj Bhatia
Cinematography K. K. Mahajan
Edited by Sujata Narula
Release date
1997
Running time
110 min
Country India
Language Hindi

Char Adhyay (English: Four Chapters) 1997 Indian Bengali language drama film written and directed Kumar Shahani. It is based on Rabindranath Tagore's last novel by the same name, written in 1934.[1]

The film is set in the late Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s, and a group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries involved with the Indian independence movement. It deals with the impact of political issues on personal lives and questions blind nationalism and blind adherence to a leader and delves into the ugly face of idealism.[1][2][3]

Most of the cast included non-actors, Nandini Ghosal was an Odissi dancer a disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Kaushik Gopal was a psychoanalyst, while Sumanto Chattopadhyay worked in advertising and acted in theatre.[3]

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 Rabindranath Tagore (2011). The Essential Tagore. Harvard University Press. p. 656. ISBN 978-0-674-05790-6.
  2. "Kumar Shahani". The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 10 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 Madhu Jain (14 July 1997). "Char Adhyay: Tagore novel adaptation is set to create ripples". India Today. Retrieved 2014-05-04.



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