Desh (film)

Desh (transl. Country) is a 2002 Bengali film directed by Raja Sen.^[3][4][5][6] The film is based on a story written by Prafulla Roy. It is written against the backdrop of arms trafficking in North Bengal.

Desh
Poster of the film
Directed by	Raja Sen
Written by	Animesh Rai Chaudhary & Prafulla Roy
Starring	Jaya Bachchan Samata Das Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Subhendu Chatterjee Nayna Bandyopadhyay Gyanesh Mukherjee Dulal Lahiri Kaushik Sen George Baker Rajesh Sharma Abhishek Bachchan[a]
Release date	15 March 2002 (2002-03-15)
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Cast

• Jaya Bachchan as Suprabha Chowdhury, formerly a freedom fighter in Indian National Movement
  • Samata Das as young Suprabha Chowdhury
• Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Sanjay Nandi
• Subhendu Chatterjee as Pratul Haldar
• Nayna Bandyopadhyay as Shila Chatterjee
• Gyanesh Mukherjee as Ambika Singh
• Monu Mukherjee as Sudhakanta Chatterjee, Shila's father
• Dulal Lahiri as Mr. Sharma
• Kaushik Sen as Akhil Som, an Indian revolutionary
• George Baker as Douglas
• Rajesh Sharma as Pulak
• Sumit Ganguly as Bolte
• Shankar Ghosh
• Kalyani Mandal as Shanti
• Abhishek Bachchan (Cameo) as Anjan Chowdhury, the son of Suprabha Chowdhury

Notes

1. Abhishek Bachchan starred with his mother Jaya Bachchan for the first time with this film. Abhishek Bachchan was in Kolkata at made a cameo in the film, but he did not speak in Bengali for the film.^[1][2]