Pradipta Bhattacharyya directed ‘Rajlokkhi O Srikanto’ stars Ritwick Chakraborty, Jyotika Jyoti in the lead is one of those rare movie which leaves a mark on your memory. Not only the script but even the actors also performed their best.
Jyotika Jyoti who essayed the role of Rajlokhi recently opened about the role and how she was able to bag the role. The Bangladeshi actress says that she was in Kolkata. I met Sujoy Nag, who was the brother of the acclaimed filmmaker Sanjoy Nag. We got to talking and discovered we had a lot of common friends from Bangladesh. I remember I had told him I wanted to work here, and shared some of my work. We talked about directors who were doing good work in Bengali cinema, and he told me about Pradipta. A few weeks later I met Pradipto da at the Bangladesh film festival, and he briefly narrated to me the script of the film."
The film is inspired from Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novel Srikanto. So far, there have been several adaptations of the novel for both movies and television. The story of the film will be set in today’s time which is almost after 100 years from the time period when the original novel was written. For obvious reasons there will be lots of changes in the situations to fit properly in today’s time. It will be exciting to see how the talented director Pradipta Bhattacharya will present the story with his point of view keeping the psyche of the characters intact.
Watch the official trailer here:
Jyotika Jyoti who essayed the role of Rajlokhi recently opened about the role and how she was able to bag the role. The Bangladeshi actress says that she was in Kolkata. I met Sujoy Nag, who was the brother of the acclaimed filmmaker Sanjoy Nag. We got to talking and discovered we had a lot of common friends from Bangladesh. I remember I had told him I wanted to work here, and shared some of my work. We talked about directors who were doing good work in Bengali cinema, and he told me about Pradipta. A few weeks later I met Pradipto da at the Bangladesh film festival, and he briefly narrated to me the script of the film."
The film is inspired from Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novel Srikanto. So far, there have been several adaptations of the novel for both movies and television. The story of the film will be set in today’s time which is almost after 100 years from the time period when the original novel was written. For obvious reasons there will be lots of changes in the situations to fit properly in today’s time. It will be exciting to see how the talented director Pradipta Bhattacharya will present the story with his point of view keeping the psyche of the characters intact.
Watch the official trailer here:
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