Praktan

Praktan
Praktan film-release poster
Directed byNandita Roy
Shiboprosad Mukherjee
Written byNandita Roy
Based onUjaan by Suchitra Bhattacharya
Produced byAtanu Raychaudhuri & Windows Production
StarringProsenjit Chatterjee
Rituparna Sengupta
Soumitra Chatterjee
Aparajita Adhya
Sabitri Chatterjee
Biswanath Basu
Manali Dey
Anupam Roy
Surojit Chatterjee
CinematographyGopi Bhagat
Subhankar Bhar
Music byAnupam Roy
Production
company
Windows Production House
Release date
  • 27 May 2016 (2016-05-27)[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Box office8.5 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.

  1. ^ a b "এবার বাংলা ছবির বিশ্বযাত্রা" (in Bengali). এইসময়. 25 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Out of the box: Of bad reviews and good collections in Tollywood".