Purushottam (film)

Purushottam
Directed byProsenjit Chatterjee
Written byProsenjit Chatterjee
Asit Basu
Screenplay byAsit Basu
Story by
Produced byProsenjit Chatterjee
Bijay Pashi
Starring
CinematographyV. Prabhakar
Edited byJoy Banerjee
Babul Bakshy
Music byR. D. Burman
Production
company
Prosenjit Films
Distributed byAmen Movies Pvt Ltd.
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Purushottam (English: The best among men) is a 1992 Indian Bengali-language action crime film produced, written and directed by Prosenjit Chatterjee, in his directorial debut. It stars Chatterjee in the titular role, alongside Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee and Pallavi Chatterjee in lead roles, with Jagannath Guha, Dipankar De, Subhendu Chatterjee, Uttam Mohanty and Hara Patnaik in supporting roles.[1] The soundtrack and background score of the film was composed by R. D. Burman.

Chatterjee played the protagonist, Deepak a.k.a. Badshah, while Debashree Roy plays his love interest Namita. Chatterjee often mentions the film to be one of those memorable films of his career.[2]

  1. ^ "Purushottam Bengali film". Archived from the original on 13 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Purushottam 1992". Retrieved 24 August 2019.