Kantatar

Kantatar
DVD cover of Kantatar
Directed byBappaditya Bandopadhyay
Written byDebasis Bandopadhyay
Produced byBinay Prakash
StarringSreelekha Mitra
Sudip Mukherjee
CinematographyRana Dasgupta
Edited byUttam Roy
Music byAbhijit Bose
Distributed byShristri Prods
Release dates
  • 22 July 2005 (2005-07-22) (Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema)
  • 31 January 2006 (2006-01-31)[1]
Running time
119 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Kantatar (Bengali: কাঁটাতার, Barbed Wire) is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay,[3] featuring Sreelekha Mitra, Sudip Mukherjee, and Rudranil Ghosh.[4] It received NETPAC Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, 2007 for its deceptively simple style with which the complex situation of people trapped in a state of permanent displacement is exposed.[5][1]

  1. ^ a b Sengupta, Reshmi (30 January 2006). "The Telegraph - Beyond barbed wires". Calcutta, India: www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  2. ^ "KANTATAR - Film Database - Movie Database". www.citwf.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  3. ^ "Kantatar (2005) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  4. ^ "BFI-Film & TV Database-KANTATAR (2005)". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  5. ^ FICA. "Barbelés - Festival des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul". www.cinemas-asie.com (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2019.