Asha Jaoar Majhe

Asha Jaoar Majhe

A poster for Asha Jaoar Majhe.
Directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Produced by For Films
Written by Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Starring Ritwick Chakraborty
Basabdatta Chatterjee
Music by Alokananda Dasgupta
Cinematography Mahendra J. Shetty
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Edited by Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Distributed by For Films
Release dates
  • 2 September 2014 (2014-09-02) (Venice)
  • 26 June 2015 (2015-06-26) (India)
Running time
84 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Asha Jaoar Majhe (English: Labour of Love) is a 2014 Bengali-language film by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. The film stars Ritwick Chakraborty and Basabdatta Chatterjee as an unnamed married couple, where it brings focus to the hard lives endured by ordinary working people in Calcutta.

The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2014,[1] where it won the Best Debut Director in the Venice Days.[2] At the 62nd National Film Awards, it won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director and Best Audiography.[3]

The film released in India on 26 June 2015.[4]

Plot

The woman (Basabdatta Chatterjee) works in a handbag factory while the man (Ritwick Chakraborty) works the night shift at a printing press. The film follows that young married couple as they go about their day, how they stay apart all day long except one brief moment when they get to be with each other.

Cast

Awards

62nd National Film Awards (India)[5]

New York Indian Film Festival[6]

71st Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days)

Marrakech International Film Festival

Abu Dhabi Film Festival

BFI London Film Festival

Bangalore International Film Festival

Jaipur International Film Festival

References

  1. La Biennale Di Venezia Retrieved on 29 March 2015.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-28. DearCinema Published 7 September 2014. Retrieved on 29 March 2015.
  3. "62nd National Awards complete winners list". The Times of India. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. Anindita Acharya (10 June 2015). "Aditya Sengupta's award-winning Asha Jaoar Majhe set for release". Hindustan Times.
  5. Chatterjee, Suprateek. "'Queen', 'Haider', And 'Court' Amongst Winners At 62nd National Film Awards" Published 24 March 2015. Retrieved on 24 March 2015.
  6. http://www.iaac.us/NYIFF2015/

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