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Doodhpither Gachh
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Wikipedia article
'Doodhpither Gachh' ( ) 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., 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.
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 neighbours 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 grandmothers 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 till next morning. Next morning his grandmother is found
dead, but her unexpected death doesnt 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
5.https://epaper.telegraphindia.com//printtextviews.php?id=345259&boxid=1330399&type=img Telegraph Review. 6 November 2020.
6.https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/entertainment/film-review/bengali-movie-doodhpither-gachh-review/moviereview/78968107.cms Review
7.https://epaper.sangbadpratidin.in/epaper/m/474397/5f9b6ab088270 Review
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