Rajkahini | |
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Directed by | Srijit Mukherji |
Produced by | Shree Venkatesh Films |
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Cinematography | Abhik Mukhopadhyay |
Edited by | Srijit Mukherji Pranoy Dasgupta |
Music by | Indraadip Das Gupta |
Distributed by | Shree Venkatesh Films |
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Running time | 160 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Budget | ₹3.5 crore[1] |
Box office | ₹7 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.