Jaatishwar

Jaatishwar
Directed bySrijit Mukherji
Written bySrijit Mukherji
Produced byReliance Entertainment and Rana Sarkar[1]
StarringProsenjit Chatterjee
Jisshu Sengupta
Swastika Mukherjee
Abir Chatterjee
Rahul Banerjee
Ananya Chatterjee
Kharaj Mukherjee
Mamata Shankar
Riya Sen
Srijit Mukherji
Biswajit Chakraborty
Bharat Kaul
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Edited byBodhaditya Banerjee
Pronoy Dasgupta
Music byKabir Suman
Release date
  • 17 January 2014 (2014-01-17) (India)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Budget4.0 crore (US$480,000)[2]

Jaatishwar is a 2014 Indian Bengali musical drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta and Swastika Mukherjee. The main focus of the plot revolves around the life and notable works of Anthony Firingee (Hensman Anthony), a 19th-century Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin, along with other supporting characters. The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different time periods—19th century and the present day (2013).[1] The music of Jaatiswar is composed by Kabir Suman.

The film has been recognized as the most awarded film in the 61st National Film Awards with 4 awards in the following categories -Best Music Direction, Best Male Playback Singer, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up Artist.

  1. ^ a b "Srijit's Jaatishwar". The Telegraph. 6 July 2013. Archived from the original on 10 July 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Budget for Jaatishwar". IMDB. Retrieved 10 June 2014.