Bilu Rakkhosh

Bilu Rakkhosh: A Demon Within is a Bengali drama film by debutant director Indrasis Acharya, produced by Amit Debnath and Anirban Maity. This film was presented by Tripod Entertainment in association with Aalekh.^[1] The story is a journey of a modern IT executive who has an inclination towards music. It’s a story of different psychological situations through a man’s mundane daily life and how he loses his soul. The music is released by Amara Muzik.

Bilu Rakkhosh : Bilu A Demon Within
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Directed by	Indrasis Acharya
Written by	Indrasis Acharya
Produced by	Amit Debnath Anirban Maity
Starring	joy Sengupta Koneenica Banerjee Kanchana Moitra
Cinematography	Santanu Dey
Edited by	Moloy Laha
Music by	Joy Sarkar
Release date	1 September 2017 (2017-09-01)
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Plot

The film delineates the journey of a bright mind which is tormented by contradiction in the scenario of rapid socio technical age.^[2] He has a lucrative yet anxiety ridden vocation which does not allow him to nurture his long cherished dream to be a singer. His life is squandered as he is unable to settle equilibrium between family obligation and personal ambition. He is like the desperate sailor whose ship is on the verge of sinking. In his mind he creates a utopia and oscillates between past and present helplessly to capture an ideal locale. The film offers an open ending for the viewers to find out the demon’s lot.^[3]

Cast

• Joy Sengupta as Bilu
• Koneenica Banerjee as Sohini
• Kanchana Moitra as Ranu
• Rony Dasgupta as Priyadip
• Pradip Mukherjee as Father of Bilu
• Moumita Mitra as Mala
• Arijit Chackrabarty as Arijit
• Deboprasad Halder as Deb
• Anirban Banerjee as Chiranjib as Friend of Bilu
• Rajanya Laha as Childhood of Bilu
• Papiya Sen

Production

Produced by Amit Debnath and Anirban Maity and presented by Tripod Entertainment in association with Aalekh.

Soundtrack

The music of the film is composed by Joy Sarkar.

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Sajani Sajani Tagore Song"	Jayati Chakraborty Momomay Bhattacharya , Srabani Roy
2	"Bilu Theme Music"	Joy Sarkar
3	"Nid nahi ankhi patey by Atul Prasad Sen"	Jayati Chakraborty
4	"Bhangilo rey sukho mela"	Srabani Roy

Recognition

To date, Bilu Rakkhosh has received following nominations:

• Official Selection New York Indian Film festival in Competition ^[4]
• Nominated for Best Actor Category in New York Indian Film Festival ^[4]
• Official Selection Jagran Film Festival in Competition ^[5]
• Official selection Third Eye Asian Film Festival
• Official selection Bodhisattva International Film Festival in Competition ^[6]
• Official Selection Habitat Film Festival ^[7]
• Official nomination Asia pacific screen awards