''Ardhangini'' () is a 2023 Indian

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written and directed by

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. The film is produced by

Nispal Singh Nispal Singh is an Indian producer in Tollywood. He produces films and serials under his banner ''Surinder Films Surinder Films is an Indian media and entertainment company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal West Bengal (; Ben ...

under the banner of

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. The film stars Churni Ganguly,

Jaya Ahsan Jaya Maswood (born 1 July), popularly known as Jaya Ahsan, is a Bangladeshi film actress, model, producer and playback singer. Starting her career as a model and, later, as a film actress, she works mostly in Bangladeshi and Indian Bengali fil ...

and

Kaushik Sen Koushik Sen (born 19 September 1968) is an Indian actor in film, television, OTT and theatre, based in Kolkata. He is the founder and director of the theatre group Swapnasandhani. He won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for best ...

in lead roles. It was a

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success. It was featured at the 54th IFFI Indian panorama section.

Synopsis

After Suman suffers an accident, his wife Meghna and his ex-wife Subhra are compelled to meet each other. The story revolves around the awkward emotional duel between the two wives - past and present, in a time of personal crisis.

Cast

as Suman Chatterjee * Churni Ganguly as Shubhra, Suman's ex-wife *

as Meghna Mustafi, Suman's wife *

Lily Chakravarty Lily Chakravarty is an Indian actress. She worked in many Bengali and Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari ...

as Parul Chatterjee, Suman's mother *

Ambarish Bhattacharya Ambarish Bhattacharya (born 13 March 1979) is a Bengali actor and comedian. He started his career through performing at Bengali theatre and stage. He made his television debut in the 2007 playing the character ''Gaja'' in Raja & Gaja. He has ac ...

as Sukanto "Chhoto" Chatterjee, Suman's brother * Daminee Benny Basu as Bihu *

Joydeep Mukherjee Joydeep Mukherjee (born 5 February 1967) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Bengal. He took up various coaching roles after his playing career. Career Mukherjee was a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm off br ...

as doctor

Release

The trailer of the film was unveiled on 12 May 2023. The film was released theatrically on 2 June 2023.

Awards

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by Anupam Roy. The lyrics are penned by

Anupam Roy Anupam Roy (born 29 March 1982) is an Indian Bengali singer-songwriter, music director, composer, writer, guitarist, playback singer, engineer from Kolkata, India. He made his debut with ''Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao'' & ''Benche Thakar Gaan'', ...

. The background score is composed by Amit Chatterjee.

References

{{reflist 2020s Bengali-language films Films directed by Kaushik Ganguly Bengali-language drama films