''Chandrabati Kotha'' is a 2019

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directed by N. Rashed Chowdhury. The movie is based on the life of

Chandravati Chandravati, popularly known as Chandroti, is a village situated near Abu Road on the bank of the West Banas River in the Indian state of Rajasthan. In ancient times it was an extensive town, and present villages such as Dattani, Kiverli, Kh ...

, first feminist poet of

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. The film premiered at the 2019

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. This movie was selected for the international category for the

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Plot

The story revolves around the elegiac life of Chandrabati, 16th century woman poet of Bengali language. She is best known for her women-centered epic

Ramayana The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...

. Her father Dijabangshi Das was also a poet. Chandrabati falls in love with another poet, Jayananda but he leaves her for another woman. Heartbroken Chandrabati confines herself inside a Shiva temple and starts rewriting the Ramayana.

Cast

* Dilruba Hossain Doyel as Chandrabati * Imtiaz Barshon as Jayananda * Tanay Biswas as Ashok * Balaram Das as Guru *

Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed is a Bangladeshi actress, voice artist, painter, puppeteer, director and a social activist. Background Ahmed studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Career Ahmed first acted in the film ''Udhao'' in 200 ...

as Sonai *

Jayanta Chattopadhyay Jayanto Chattopadhyay (born 28 July 1946) is a Bangladeshi actor and reciter. He studied English literature from Calcutta University. He portrayed the famous character Misir Ali in a television drama named ''Trishna''. Works Films * '' Adam ...

as Dwijabangshi Das * Gazi Rakayet as Dewan * Mita Rahman as Sulochona

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 5288658 2019 films Bengali-language Bangladeshi films Bangladeshi romantic drama films Bangladeshi biographical films 2010s Bengali-language films Government of Bangladesh grants films