''Elar Char Adhyay'' is a 2012
Bengali film. The film is directed by
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, produced by Dreamz Movies and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and based on
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...
's 1934 novel ''
Char Adhyay''.
Plot
The film is set in India under
British Raj
The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent,
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* lasting from 1858 to 1947.
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* It is also called Crown rule ...
in 1940s. Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.
Location
Mostly the shooting location of Elar Char Adhyay is in Ichapur Nawabganj, a beautiful city near the bank of Ganges in North 24 Parganas West Bengal. In the movie, the palace picturized as Ela's home is originally named as Mandal Bhavan, which is one of the oldest and heritage palace of Ichapur. The school where Ela was teaching is Sridhar Bansidhar High School which is more than 100 years old. The arrival of Atin is shot in Ichapur Mandal Ghat, which is also one of the oldest Ghat of Ichapur.
Cast
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Paoli Dam
Paoli Dam (born 1980) is an Indian actress who started her career with the Bengali television serial ''Jibon Niye Khela'' (2003). She then worked in Bengali television serials such as ''Tithir Atithi'' and ''Sonar Harin''; the former ran for ...
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Indraneil Sengupta
Indraniel Sengupta is an Indian actor and model who works in Hindi and Bengali films and television.
Early Life
Sengupta was born on 8 September 1974 in Assam, India, to a Bengali Hindu family. He completed his education from Scottish Churc ...
*Deepankar Dey
*Shamaun Ahmed
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Rudranil Ghosh
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Arunima Ghosh
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Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali people, Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's ''Seemabaddha''.
Biography
Chanda was born in Dhaka in present-d ...
* Kamalika Chanda
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Vikram Chatterjee
Vikram Chatterjee ( born 17 May 1988) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. He made his silver screen debut in 2012 with a supporting role in Mainak Bhowmik's ''Bedroom''. In the same year he acted in '' Elar Char Adh ...
* Nitya Ganguly
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See also
* ''
Muktodhara'', a 2012 Bengali film
References
External links
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2012 films
Films based on works by Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
Films directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
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