Rajkahini

Rajkahini
Movie poster
Directed bySrijit Mukherji
Produced byShree Venkatesh Films
Starring
CinematographyAbhik Mukhopadhyay
Edited bySrijit Mukherji
Pranoy Dasgupta
Music byIndraadip Das Gupta
Distributed byShree Venkatesh Films
Release date
  • 16 October 2015 (2015-10-16)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Budget3.5 crore[1]
Box office7 crore(super-hit) [1]

Rajkahini (transl. Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an Indian Bengali-language historical drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji.[2] The shooting of the film was completed in June 2015 and the film was released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee and Jaya Ahsan in other pivotal roles.[3][4] The film was a critical and commercial success. It has since then been remade in Hindi by Mukherji as Begum Jaan.

  1. ^ a b "List Of Top 20 Highest Grossing Bengali Movies of All Time". pycker.com. 26 June 2018. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Srijit Mukherjee's next film talks of people displaced by radcliffe people". The Indian Express.
  3. ^ "Rajkahini is world cinema, made in Bengali: Saswata, Kaushik Sen". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  4. ^ "First Look: The 11 heroines of Srijit's Rajkahini". The Times of India. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.