| Mahalaya | |
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| Directed by | Soumik Sen |
| Screenplay by | Soumik Sen |
| Produced by | Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd |
| Starring | Subhasish Mukherjee Jisshu Sengupta Subhomoy Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee |
| Cinematography | Mrinmoy Nandi |
| Edited by | Niladri Roy |
| Music by | Debojyoti Mishra |
Production companies | Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd |
| Distributed by | SVF |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Mahalaya (2019) is an Indian Bengali language drama film directed by Soumik Sen and produced by Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd. The film narrates an incident in Bengal in 1976, when Birendra Krishna Bhadra narrated and Pankaj Mullick composed widely popular Mahisasuramardini program, which had been playing on All India Radio since 1931 on the eve of Mahalaya, was replaced by a new program Durga Durgatiharini, narrated by Bengali film actor Uttam Kumar and composed by Hemanta Mukherjee. Subhasish Mukhopadhyay played the role of Bhadra and Jisshu Sengupta played the role of Uttam Kumar.[1][2]
The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.