| Praktan | |
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 Praktan film-release poster | |
| Directed by | Nandita Roy Shiboprosad Mukherjee |
| Written by | Nandita Roy |
| Based on | Ujaan by Suchitra Bhattacharya |
| Produced by | Atanu Raychaudhuri & Windows Production |
| Starring | Prosenjit Chatterjee Rituparna Sengupta Soumitra Chatterjee Aparajita Adhya Sabitri Chatterjee Biswanath Basu Manali Dey Anupam Roy Surojit Chatterjee |
| Cinematography | Gopi Bhagat Subhankar Bhar |
| Music by | Anupam Roy |
Production company | Windows Production House |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Box office | ₹8.5 crore (US$1.0 million) (collection worldwide)[2] |
Praktan (Bengali: প্রাক্তন, lit. Former) is a 2016 Indian Bengali Romantic film directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee and starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta. It brings back the Prosenjit - Rituparna collaboration 14 years after Pratihinsa (2002). The theme of the film is based on conflict between contentment and sacrifice of married life.
The film opened to a huge reception on 27 May 2016 worldwide.[1] It won the International Film Business Award 2016 for becoming the Highest Grossing Movie of the Year - Bengal alongside films like Kabaali, Sultan, Sairat and Action Hero Biju, at Indywood Film Carnival at Ramoji Film City. The film's music was released by Amara Muzik. Praktan was remade in Bollywood with the title Jalebi.
- ^ a b "এবার বাংলা ছবির বিশ্বযাত্রা" (in Bengali). এইসময়. 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Out of the box: Of bad reviews and good collections in Tollywood".