Gangor

Gangor
Poster of Gangor
Directed byItalo Spinelli
Screenplay byAntonio Falduto
Italo Spinelli
Story byMahasweta Devi
Produced byAngelo Barbagallo
Vinod Kumar
Isabella Spinelli
StarringPriyanka Bose
Adil Hussain
Samrat Chakrabarti
Seema Rahmani
Tillotama Shome
CinematographyMarco Onorato
Edited byJacopo Quadri
Music byIqbal Darbar
Sahil Sultanpuri (lyrics)
Release dates
  • 31 October 2010 (2010-10-31) (Rome)[1]
  • 11 March 2011 (2011-03-11)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageBengali

Gangor is a 2010 multilingual, Independent film directed by Italo Spinelli. The Italian production is based on a Bangla short story "Choli Ke Peeche" (Behind the Bodice) by Mahasweta Devi. The film was shot in West Bengal in India with dialogues in Bengali, Santhali and English. The film was later dubbed into Italian. At the 5th Rome Film Festival where the cast of the film got a standing ovation at the film's screening.[2]

The film won the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the New Jersey Independent South Asian Film Festival.[3] The film won the NETPAC Jury award at the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2011.[4] The film won the top award named after Filipino director Lino Brocka at the 13th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Philippines.[5]

  1. ^ "Indian Film 'Gangaur' Competes at Rome Film Festival". outlookindia.com/. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Standing ovation for 'Gangor'". Times of India. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
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  4. ^ "'Gangor' Wins Jury Award at Asian Film Fest". India West. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Gangor wins Lino Brocka Award". Times of India. 20 November 2011. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2015.