Doodhpither Gachh
Release poster
Bengaliদুধপিঠের গাছ
Directed byUjjwal Basu
Written byUjjwal Basu
Screenplay byUjjwal Basu
Story byUjjwal Basu
Produced byPayel Chakraborty Bhattacharyya & 1126 Producers[1]
StarringDaminee Benny Basu
Kaushik Roy
Shibani Maity
Harshil Das
CinematographySantanu Banerjee
Edited byAnirban Maity
Music byJoy Sarkar
Production
company
ACL Movies
Distributed byShyamsakha
Release date
  • 21 October 2020 (2020-10-21)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Doodhpither Gachh (দুধপিঠের গাছ) is a Crowd funded Bengali film, where Funded by 930 families from the village 'Aranghata' located in Nadia District, West Bengal, India & 196 Cinegoers from within the country and Abroad.,[2] written and directed by debutant director Ujjwal Basu. The music of the film is composed by Joy Sarkar. Featuring Daminee Benny Basu, Kaushik Roy, Shibani Maity and Harshil Das, the film revolves around the activities of a seven years old country boy Gour, who has speech impediment. The film was released theatrically on 21 October 2020 coinciding with Durga puja.[3][4]

Plot

Gour (Harshil Das), a 7 years old country boy, can't speak properly due to speech disorder. He lives with his two sisters, Lakkhi (Riya Das) and Basanti (Debangana Gon), along with his parents. The children run around almost always. They reach school late mostly; quarrels with classmates; throw stones at jujube tree of other and pick off jujube without taking permission; they go away in foggy morning to collect date palm juice; and sometimes watch movies standing outside of neighbour's house. Gour eats rice cake made by his mother (Beny Basu) and imagines of rice cake tree. His tender mind believes that rice cake tree exists likewise other fruit bearing trees. From this belief he sows a rice cake, waters it and waits for the sprouting. One day his grandmother (Shibani Maity) comes to their home. The children listen to their grandmother's tale in the evening. She says that she will go to Kashi, the sacred place of Lord Shiva. Then Gour asks her if there are milky rice cake trees at Kashi. Grandmother makes fun of his words and tells that there so many different kind of cake trees are found. Next day Lakkhi shows grandmother the place where his brother plants a rice cake and a sapling also emerges. Gour asks to grandmother, “Is this a rice cake tree?” She smiles and indulges which invigorates his belief. He fantasizes a new world where various rice cake trees are supposed to exist. Infantile mind wants to wing to that land. His friend Raju also encourages him telling there are big trees bearing big rice cakes at Kashi and Gour must not give up the chance to go with his grandmother. Sitting in the classroom Gour see his grandmother passes by. He finds excuse to leave the classroom and starts going after her grandmother. He catches the same train where her grandmother gets on. Finally they meet at a lonely railway station and takes shelter at a hermitage for the night as no more train to halt until next morning. Next morning his grandmother is found dead, but her unexpected death doesn't touch his mind and he runs away from there to catch train which he believes will take away him to his dreamland. The film ends with a kirtan being sung by different groups from different places.

Cast

  • Daminee Benny Basu
  • Kaushik Roy
  • Shibani Maity
  • Harshil Das
  • Debangana Gon
  • Riya Das

References

  1. ↑ "Beyond publicity and limelight, a crowd-funded film 'Dudh Pither Gachh' awaits its release". The Times of India. 15 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "When villagers turned producers for Ujjwal Basu's 'Doodh Pither Gachh'". The Times of India. 12 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ujjwal Basu on his film 'Doodh Pither Gachh': The ingenious spirit in the story will attract cine lovers". Times of India. 12 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "10 New Bengali Films To Release In Durga Puja; 'It's A World Record', says Distributor". Film Companion. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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