Padatik (2024 film)

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Padatik is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language biographical drama film written, directed and edited by Srijit Mukherji. Produced by Firdausul Hasan and Prabal Halder under the banners of Friends Communication and Big Screen Productions, the film focuses on Mrinal Sen's active lifetime and his contribution in the Bengali Cinema.^[1][2] The film was released theatrically on 15 August 2024, India's Independence Day.^[3] At the 8th Filmfare Awards Bangla, it received fourteen nominations, of which won awards for Best Supporting Actress (Monami Ghosh), Best Make-up (Kundu), Best Production design (Tanmay Chakraborty) and Best Editing (Mukherji) and Best Screenplay (Mukherji).

Padatik
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Srijit Mukherji
Written by	Srijit Mukherji
Screenplay by	Srijit Mukherji
Story by	Srijit Mukherji
Based on	Mrinal Sen
Produced by	Firdausul Hasan Prabal Halder
Starring	Chanchal Chowdhury Monami Ghosh
Cinematography	Indranath Marick
Edited by	Srijit Mukherjee
Music by	Salil Chowdhury Rabindranath Tagore Kabir Suman
Production companies	Friends Communication, Big Screen Productions House
Distributed by	PVR Inox Pictures
Release date	15 August 2024 (2024-08-15) (India)
Running time	126 Minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Plot

Mrinal Sen's journey from his struggling early days as an idealistic filmmaker during India's independence to his pivotal role in the Indian New Wave cinema movement in 1950s Calcutta, working alongside Satyajit Ray. Also, the great lyricist turned writer Stotrom Das had great involvement in the naxalities movement whom, the great Shubham Shill finds and arrests, which causes a civil unrest and riots throughout the Calcutta.

Cast

• Chanchal Chowdhury – as Mrinal Sen
• Korak Samantha – as young Mrinal Sen
• Monami Ghosh – as Geeta Devi Wife of Mrinal Sen
• Aishani Dey – as young Geeta Sen
• Samrat Chakravarthy - as Mrinal and Geeta's only son Kunal Sen
• Barun Chanda as Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
• Jeetu Kamal - as Satyajit Ray
• Sujan Mukherjee - as Anjan Dutt
• Satrajit Sarkar - as Ritwik Ghatak
• Padmanabha Dasgupta - as Hemanta Mukherjee
• Rahul Deb Bose - as Amitabh Bachchan
• Gourab Roy Chowdhury - as Uttam Kumar
• Alokesh Bhattacharya - as Rabindranath Tagore
• Akshay Kapoor – as Kapoor
• Rohit Basfore
• Sajjadul Ahamed Riyad
• Tanisa Islam Mahi

Create

Initially, Srijit decided to make a biopic on Mrinal Sen in the form of a web series, but later decided to make a film after changing his mind. The shooting of Mrinal Sen's biopic 'Padatik' began on 15 January 2023 in Kolkata.^[4]

Reception

Padatik won the Best Screenplay award at the 2024 New York Indian Film Festival.^[5]