Riddhi Sen, who is the youngest actor in India to win the National Film Award for Best Actor for Nagarkirtan, has really come a long way. He has done some brilliant movies like Vinci Da, Bhoomi, Children of War, Chauranga. And now his film Samantaral has completed two years and the actor got nostalgic.
He took to his official Instagram account and shared pictures from the set. ‘এত মন, এত জন মিলে স্বপ্ন দেখা..’ Released on 24th November, two years back,” he captioned the image. Directed by Partha Chakraborty and starring Parambrata Chatterjee and Riddhi Sen. It was nominated at the 2018 Filmfare Awards for Best Film (Critics). Chatterjee received nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) - Popular and Critics Award for Best Actor (Male).
The star cast includes Parambrata Chatterjee who played the role of Sujan, Riddhi Sen as Arko, Soumitra Chatterjee as Sujan's father, Surangana Bandyopadhyay as Titli, Arko's girlfriend, Kushal Chakraborty as Supriyo, the eldest son, Aparajita Adhya as Eldest daughter-in-law, Anindya Banerjee as Kaushik, the youngest son, Tanusree Chakraborty as the youngest daughter-in-law, Sayantani Guhathakurta as youngest daughter.
The story is about Arko ( Riddhi Sen ) returns to his 'mamarbari' (maternal uncles' house) to meet his extended family. Over there, he meets his second uncle Sujan (Parambrata Chatterjee) who is always locked in a room because of his presumed mental retardedness. Arko takes permission from his grandfather (Soumitra Chatterjee) to allow him to take Sujan out of the house for some time, much to the chagrin of his other uncles (Kushal Chakraborty and Anindya Banerjee) and aunt (Tanusree Chakraborty). As Arko sees his uncle more closely, he realizes that something very wrong has happened to him and the family is hiding a secret. Finally it has been revealed that uncle Sujan is transgender and the family has always wanted to keep this identity shut from outside world. Uncle Sujan commits suicide at the end and donates his eyes to his abusive younger brother (Anindya Banerjee).
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