Chander Bari

Chander Bari
Chander Bari
	DVD cover
Directed by	Tarun Majumdar
Story by	Pracheta Gupta
Produced by	Rosevally films
Starring	Soham Chakraborty; Ranjit Mallick; Babul Supriyo; Laboni Sarkar; Soumitra Chatterjee; Koel Mallick; Rituparna Sengupta
Release date	2007;
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Chander Bari is a 2007 Bengali film directed by Tarun Majumdar.^[1]^[2] The film centers on a middle class joint family. The film is based on a Bengali story written by Pracheta Gupta.^[3] Majumdar used some Rabindra Sangeets in this film.^[4]

Plot

The Sanyals are a large extended family composed of the nonagenarian grandfather, (Haradhan Banerjee), his son (Ranjit Mallick), daughter-in-law (Laboni Sarkar) who rules over the house like a female Hitler, reincarnated, and their children of whom two, a daughter (Koel Mallick) and son (Rishi Kaushik) live together in a beautiful mansion in Bhawanipur. There seems to be more servants in their house than family members, extending the virtues and parameters of the ideal ‘joint’ family. The film starts with everyone being excited about the return of the elder son (Babul Supriyo) from LONDON,UK where he had gone for some business related work. However, all hell breaks loose, when he returns with a wife (Rituparna Sengupta) and her child from a former marriage in tow. Her first husband with underworld links was killed in police crossfire. Everyone accepts the new additions to the Sanyal family except the mother-in-law who refuses to even acknowledge her presence. The story revolves around how these two women build bridges to keep the joint family intact, with most of the credit going to the beautiful daughter-in-law.

Cast

Ranjit Mallick as Shyam Sundar Sanyal
Laboni Sarkar as Gayatri Sanyal
Babul Supriyo as Pradeep Kumar Sanyal
Rituparna Sengupta as Sutapa Sanyal
Koel Mallick as Nandita Sanyal
Rishi Kaushik as Joydeep Sanyal
Soumitra Chatterjee as Harinath
Tathoi Deb as Rikhia Sanyal
Soham Chakraborty
Aritra Dutta Banik
Dwijen Bandopadhyay
Sarbori Mukherjee
Sumit Samadder
Shritama Bhattacharjee
Tanima Sen
Swanakamal Dutta
Shraboni Bonik
Chaitali Mukhopadhyay
Payel Deb
Oindrila Saha

Music

Some of the tracks used in this film were from Rabindra Sangeet.

"Bhenge Mor Ghar Er Chabi"
"Chand Er Hashir Bnadh Bhengechhe"
"Gun Gun Bhromora Boslo Eshe"
"Bandh Bhenge Dao"
"Debo Na, Debo Na Sara To Jotoi Dako" (Singer: Jojo, Sujay Bhowmick)
"Ore Chitrarekha Dore Bandhilo Ke" [Indranil Sen]

Awards

Special Screening at Sydney Film Festival, 2016.

References

^ "'I need to be seen'". Telegraph, Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
^ "Flashback family". Telegraph Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 28 November 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
^ "Un-Fair Deal". Express India. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
^ "An actor who sings". Telegraph Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 28 May 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

External links

Chander Bari at IMDb

[‘I_need_to_be_seen’-1] "'I need to be seen'". Telegraph, Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

[Flashback_family-2] "Flashback family". Telegraph Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 28 November 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

[Un-Fair_Deal-3] "Un-Fair Deal". Express India. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2012.

[An_actor_who_sings-4] "An actor who sings". Telegraph Calcutta. Calcutta, India. 28 May 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

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