''Arshinagar'' is a 2015 Bengali film directed by Aparna Sen. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Dev,
Rittika Sen
Rittika Sen is an Indian actress who appears in Bengali language, Bengali and Tamil language, Tamil films. She was featured in the ''Calcutta Times'' list of ''Most Desirable Women 2015''.
Career
Rittika Sen kicked off the journey in the show ...
Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress. Regarded among the most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has worked in more than Waheeda Rehman filmography, 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her ac ...
,
Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Kamaleswar Mukherjee, M.B.B.S. is an Indian film director, actor, and physician known for his work in Bengali-language films.Bengali highest grossing Films directed by him include '' Chander Pahar'' (2013), '' Amazon Obhijaan'' (2017) '' Coc ...
Shakespeare
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's ''
Romeo and Juliet
''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...
''. The trailer of the film was released on 25 November 2015.
Rittika Sen
Rittika Sen is an Indian actress who appears in Bengali language, Bengali and Tamil language, Tamil films. She was featured in the ''Calcutta Times'' list of ''Most Desirable Women 2015''.
Career
Rittika Sen kicked off the journey in the show ...
Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress. Regarded among the most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has worked in more than Waheeda Rehman filmography, 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her ac ...
as Dadijaan Ji
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Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Kamaleswar Mukherjee, M.B.B.S. is an Indian film director, actor, and physician known for his work in Bengali-language films.Bengali highest grossing Films directed by him include '' Chander Pahar'' (2013), '' Amazon Obhijaan'' (2017) '' Coc ...
Priyanka Sarkar
Priyanka Sarkar (born 31 December 1990) is an Indian film and television actress who mostly works in Bengali films. She started her career working in the Bengali television industry in 2003 while she was only 12 years old. Later she worked in se ...
as Mrs. Gupta (Herself)
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Shataf Figar
Shataf Figar is an Indian actor. He acted in movies like Shershaah, 89, Kolkata Calling, Dark Chocolate and Chorabali, Khoj and Cockpit, ''Made in China'' (2019) and ''Extraction'' (2020). In 2022, he appeared in the film ''Raavan''.
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(cameo appearance)
Production
Development
The film was announced to be a modern-day take on
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
's romantic-tragedy
Romeo and Juliet
''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...
. The film would have land mafia as its background, as told by Aparna Sen.
Dev's character is based on
Romeo
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and Rittika Sen's character to be based on
Juliet
Juliet Capulet () is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist Ro ...
. Dev would essay the role of a member of a band named, Garage Band. Rittika Sen, who made her debut in '' Borbaad'', was selected as the lead heroine because Aparna Sen wanted someone who would look ten years younger than the lead actor, so Sen zeroed on her. Yesteryear
legend
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,
Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress. Regarded among the most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has worked in more than Waheeda Rehman filmography, 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her ac ...
, who worked with Aparna Sen in 15 Park Avenue, was selected to essay the role of Rittika's grandmother. Theatre actor Anirban Bhattacharya was initially roped to portray the main
antagonist
An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy or rival of the protagonist and is often depicted as a villain.Jisshu Sengupta was selected to play the flamboyant negative character etched out on the lines of
Tybalt
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, making his debut as a full-fledged
antagonist
An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy or rival of the protagonist and is often depicted as a villain.Anirban Bhattacharya was later on signed to play a supporting role. Apparently, Roopa Ganguly and Kaushik Sen had been cast as son and daughter of Waheeda Rahman, respectively. Actress Jaya Seal Ghosh and filmmaker Kamaleswar Mukherjee are also part of the film. While Jaya would play Dev's mother, Kamaleswar will be seen as Salim Saab, Rittika's music teacher. Shankar Chakraborty would enact the role of Dev's father, while Shantilal Mukherjee would essay the role of a corrupt politician.
Filming
The muhurat shot was held on 27 January 2015, whose pictures were posted by the makers on
Twitter
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. Dev and Anindya Banerjee started shooting for Aparna Sen's Arshinagar at a city studio on 7 February 2015.
Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress. Regarded among the most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has worked in more than Waheeda Rehman filmography, 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her ac ...
joined the shooting on 21 and 22 March.
Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Kamaleswar Mukherjee, M.B.B.S. is an Indian film director, actor, and physician known for his work in Bengali-language films.Bengali highest grossing Films directed by him include '' Chander Pahar'' (2013), '' Amazon Obhijaan'' (2017) '' Coc ...
started shooting on 17 February 2015. Some scenes were filmed at the
Bardhaman
Bardhaman (, ), officially Bardhaman Sadar, is a city and municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of Purba Bardhaman district, having become a district capital during the period of British rule. Burdwan, an a ...
Rajbari in
Alipore
Alipore is a neighbourhood of Kolkata, South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal.
It is flanked by the Tolly Nullah to the north, Bhowanipore to the east, the Diamond Harbour R ...
on Sunday afternoon. Besides
Kolkata
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, shooting locations include
Adina Mosque
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Mumbai
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.
Box office report
Arshinagar Movie's total budget was 2.3 Crores and Movie Box office collects total 1.97 crores between 10 Days only. Movie first day Collection was 38 lakhs and opening week collection was 87 lakhs.