Rakkhosh
Directed byAbhijit Kokate, Srivinay Salian
Written bySrivinay Salian
Produced bySantosh Deshpande
Sayali Deshpande
StarringSanjay Mishra
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Priyanka Bose
Barun Chanda
CinematographyBasile Pierrat
Edited byDinesh Gopal Poojari
Music byAshim Kemson
Production
company
SD Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • 20 June 2019 (2019-06-20)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Rakkhosh is a Hindi-language psychological thriller drama film where the camera is the lead character of the film.[1] It is a first-person POV of a schizophrenic person. The film is an adaptation of a Marathi short story titled "Patient 302", by late Shri Narayan Dharap, who is a well-known writer in Marathi Literature in horror genre.

Rakkhosh bagged the "Special Jury Award for Best Director in Hindi Film" at the Rajasthan International Film Festival, that took place in Jaipur between 19 and 23 January 2019.[2][3]

Plot

The film explores the horrors and fantasies of a patient trapped in a mental asylum.

Birsa is a mental patient with a history of abuse from his father and elder brother. He's sent to mental asylum from where he draws a parallel between his life in an asylum and that at his home.

Production

Produced by Santosh Deshpande and Sayali Deshpande and helmed by Prashen H. Kyawal as Creative Producer and produced by SD Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd.

Produced by SD Motion Pictures,[4] this film stars Sanjay Mishra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose,[5] and Barun Chanda in lead characters. Actor Namit Das[6] has given voice the character of Birsa, from whose POV, the story is narrated.

The film is touted as the first POV film of India to be shot on professional cinema camera (Red Dragon 6K).[7] French DOP Basile Pierrat had been hired to shoot this film, who had to create a custom POV rig for the Red Camera. The film made the official selection at Pune International Film Festival (PIFF),[8][9] the Rajasthan International Film Festival (RIFF) and the Orange City International Film Festival (OCIFF) to be held between January and February 2019.[10][11]

Cast

Recognition

To date, Rakkhosh has received following nominations:

References

  1. ↑ "Stills of movie 'Rakkhosh', which can be one of the classics to come out of India in 2019". photogallery.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "संजय मिश्रा अभिनीत 'राखोश' को राजस्थान फ़िल्म समारोह में बेस्ट डायरेक्टर अवॉर्ड". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Pandolin (24 January 2019). "Rakkhosh wins Best Director - Jury award at Rajasthan International Film Festival". Pandolin. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "VIDEO: Rakkosh film shot in Nagpur selected for PIFF, RIFF, OCIFF". Nagpurtoday. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Mazumder, Ranjib (22 February 2017). "'I am equally in love with ugliness as an actor'". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Namit Das to feature in a new-age film". IWMBuzz. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "राखोश- भारत की पहली पीओवी तकनीक आधारित साइकोलॉजिकल थ्रिलर!".
  8. ↑ "पुणे इंटरनेशनल फिल्म फेस्टिवल में नजर आएगी राखोश". Nai Dunia. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Samar Nakhate, Barun Chanda, Atul Mahale, Sonamoni Jayant, Prashen Kyawal, Srivinay Salian, Sayali Deshpande and S Ramchandran) discussing about the movie Rakkhosh -". Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  10. ↑ "Rakkhosh – India's first film with the camera as the hero selected at PIFF, RIFF and OCIFF! – इंदौर समाचार". Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  11. ↑ "Rakkhosh – India's First Film With The Camera As The Hero Selected At Pune, Rajasthan And Orange City International Film Festivals". Bollyy. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "Actor Ashwath Bhatt on playing an Afghan warlord, a Kashmiri psychiatrist and Manto on screen and on stage this year". The Indian Express. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  13. ↑ "Catch Me If You Can". Trenzy.in. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  14. ↑ "संघर्ष से होकर जाती है सफलता की राह…". ZindagiNext. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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