Mahishasur Marddini

Mahishasur Marddini
Mahishasur Marddini Movie Poster
Directed byRanjan Ghosh
Written byRanjan Ghosh
Produced byPawan Kanodia
StarringRituparna Sengupta
Saswata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chattopadhyay
Koushik Kar
Saheb Bhattacharya
Poulomi Das
Sritama Dey
Aryuun Ghosh
Arunima Halder
Abhyuday Dey
CinematographySubhadeep Dey
Edited byAmit Pal
Music byAvijit Kundu
Distributed byRAA Info and Entertainments
Release date
  • November 25, 2022 (2022-11-25) (India)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Mahishasur Marddini – A Night to Remember (মহিষাসুরমর্দ্দিনী) is a 2022 India-Bengali film written and directed by acclaimed director Ranjan Ghosh. It stars Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee and Parambrata Chattopadhyay, and is considered as the director's boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema. The film was produced by AVA Film Productions Pvt. Ltd. and co-produced by Vinayak Pictures.[1][2]

The film was nominated in a list of Top 50 Indian Feature Films by FIPRESCI-India for their annual jury Award, the Grand Prix 2022.[3]

The film was screened at the Film and Television Institute of India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Hyderabad, English and Foreign Languages University, University of Kerala, SNDT Women's University, Pondicherry University, IIT Bombay (Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata and Tata Institute of Social Sciences.[4][5][6]

The Indian People's Theatre Association, Kollam District Committee, Kerala, screened the film in August 2023. Earlier, it was screened at one of the oldest and most prestigious theatre festivals in India, the 21st IHC Theatre Festival, organized by the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in September 2022. With that, it became the first Indian feature film to be screened at any theatre festival anywhere in India.[7]

  1. ^ Deepali, Singh (23 September 2022). "The IHC Theatre Festival returns to the capital after two years". Mint Lounge. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  2. ^ "The IHC Theatre Festival returns to the capital after two years". The Hindu. 7 October 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Ranjan Ghosh: Elated to see 'Mahishasur Marddini' in prestigious FIPRESCI nomination list". The Times of India. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  4. ^ "JNU screening of 'Mahishasur Marddini' leaves Ranjan emotional". [1]. 16 December 2022. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  5. ^ "Ranjan Ghosh on Mahishasur Marddini's JNU screening". [2]. 16 December 2022. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  6. ^ "Special screening of upcoming Bengali feature film Mahishashur Mardini at JMI" (PDF). jmi.ac.in. 30 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Mahishasur Marddini to be screened at IHC Theatre Festival". The Telegraph India. 13 September 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2023.