Posto (film)

Posto
Posto film-release poster
Directed byNandita Roy
Shiboprosad Mukherjee
Written byNandita Roy
Produced byAtanu Raychaudhuri & Windows Production
StarringSoumitra Chatterjee
Jisshu Sengupta
Lily Chakraborty
Mimi Chakraborty
Paran Bandopadhyay
Sohini Sengupta
CinematographyGopi Bhagat
Music byAnupam Roy
Production
company
Distributed byEros International
Release date
  • 12 May 2017 (2017-05-12)[1][2]
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Box office₹8 crore (US$960,000)[3][4] ( collection worldwide )

Posto (Here, a name for the child character of film. Meaning: Poppy Seeds) is a 2017 Bengali Family drama film directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee.[5][6] The film features Soumitra Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta and Mimi Chakraborty. The film was released on 12 May 2017 in 100 theatres across West Bengal, India and overseas (United States, Canada, Japan, Dubai, United Kingdom, Netherlands) on the same day. The film received critical acclaim as it portrayed the relationships in a very subtle way. The film was remade in Hindi language by the same director-duo Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee named Shastry Virudh Shastry (2023) which is set to release on 3 November.

  1. ^ "Posto to release in the US, Canada, Dubai, Tokyo and London!". The Times of India. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ Acharya, Anindita (11 November 2016). "Shiboprosad and Nandita's next Bengali film is on parenting". Hindusthan Times. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Posto does business of 5.5 crores in West Bengal in 4 weeks".
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference timesofindia_58683726 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Guess who: This director forwarded anti-Posto messages". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Posto Praktone Bratyo Suchitra". kolkata24x7.com. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.