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Film: Rajkahini Starring: Rituparna Sengupta, Lily Chakraborty Parno Mitra, Jaya Ahsan,Sudiptaa Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar Sohini Sarkar, Sayoni Ghosh, Ditipriya Roy, Ridhima Ghosh, Ena Saha Nigel Akkara, Rudranil Ghosh,Saswata Chatterjee, Koushik Sen Rajatabha Dutta, Abir Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Biswajit Chakraborty & Kanchan Mallik Presenter: Shrikant Mohta & Mahendra Soni Produced. Watch Rajkahini (2015) online, full movie on 123Movies, Rajkahini in Full HD with English Subtitles. 123 Movies 2020 Movies/TV Show Stream. Tarak is a professional foley artist whose obsession with creating sound effects for films makes him oblivious to all the talking around him. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the Coming to the story, a boy in his adolescence comes back moviie his house in north Kolkata being rusticated from his boarding school; then. Rajkahini Movie Review: Critics Rating: 4 stars, click to give your rating/review,Rajkahini's flaws don't take away from the beauty of the concept or its execution. It still remains.

Rajkahini (English: Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an IndianBengali-language crime drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji.^[2] The shooting of the film completed in June 2015 and the film released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee and Bangladesh actress Jaya Ahsan in other pivotal roles.^[3][4] It has been remade in Hindi by Mukherji as Begum Jaan.

Plot[edit]

In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Srijit's movie Rajkahini is weaved around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing eleven women. Bengal was broken up twice (1905, and then during Independence) - officially for demographic reasons and ease of administration - but actually, it was a strictly political move to curtail Bengal politics. The narrative follows the erection of the Radcliffe Line as the boundary between the newly formed nations of India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). As both the Congress and the Muslim League battle it out in courtrooms as to which side of Bengal will get which territory, in another part of Bengal is a brothel, situated right in the middle of Debiganj and Haldibari districts, which is the home and the world to eleven women and two men. Begum Jaan (Rituparna) is the boss, while the other women work under her as prostitutes. Begum's faithful bodyguard is Saleem Mirza (Nigel Akkara), a Pathan, and Sujan (Rudranil Ghosh) as their man-servant and entertainer. Begum Jaan is not concerned about Hindustan or Pakistan, her only concern is her business, which is running badly because of the partition and resulting riots. The local master and Congress worker (Abir Chatterjee) visits the brothel time to time with gifts for everyone.

Meanwhile, the political sky is darkening. The Radcliffe line passes between Debiganj and Haldibari, the former being placed in East Pakistan, and the latter remaining in India. Mr. Profullo Sen (Saswata Chatterjee) from Congress and Mr. Ilias (Kaushik Sen) from Muslim League (who were childhood friends but now separated) meet and discuss about the relocation of the people of the two districts. They discover that in its course, the boundary line has been drawn right through the middle of Begum Jaan's brothel. They meet Begum Jaan and tell her to evacuate her brothel along with her women, who refuses to budge. Meanwhile, the Nawab of Rangpur (Rajatava Dutta) was relocating with his family and followers to West Bengal, where he stayed at the brothel for a night. Begum Jaan complained to him about Mr. Sen and Mr. Ilias, to get them out of their respective parties. After visiting Delhi for the meeting of the rulers of the Princely States, he informed Begum that he is not an influential person anymore, and the Princely States were being integrated in the Indian Union, and the titles were being abolished. Begum decided to fight her own battle.

Exasperated at the futile attempts to evict Begum and her women from the house, Prafulla and Ilias turn to Kabir (Jisshu Sengupta), leader of a criminal gang, for help. Kabir and his gang commits all kinds of heinous crimes in these turbulent times of riots and violence. They chase Sujan and three other girls who were returning from the market. While Sujan manages to save the girls and help them escape, he himself gets butchered by Kabir. Sujan's death adds fuel to the fire in Begum's heart and they decide to have a final confrontation. Meanwhile, after being rejected by Begum Jaan, Master manages to trap a girl (Parno Mittra) into his schemes of getting back at Begum. He joins forces with Kabir and Prafulla. Ilias was dissatisfied with Kabir's ways but accepted the events as necessary for getting the job done.

Film: Rajkahini Starring: Rituparna Sengupta, Lily Chakraborty Parno Mitra, Jaya Ahsan,Sudiptaa Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar Sohini Sarkar, Sayoni Ghosh, Ditipriya Roy, Ridhima Ghosh, Ena Saha Nigel Akkara, Rudranil Ghosh,Saswata Chatterjee, Koushik Sen Rajatabha Dutta, Abir Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Biswajit Chakraborty & Kanchan Mallik Presenter: Shrikant Mohta & Mahendra Soni Produced. Watch Rajkahini (2015) online, full movie on 123Movies, Rajkahini in Full HD with English Subtitles. 123 Movies 2020 Movies/TV Show Stream. Tarak is a professional foley artist whose obsession with creating sound effects for films makes him oblivious to all the talking around him. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the Coming to the story, a boy in his adolescence comes back moviie his house in north Kolkata being rusticated from his boarding school; then. Rajkahini Movie Review: Critics Rating: 4 stars, click to give your rating/review,Rajkahini's flaws don't take away from the beauty of the concept or its execution. It still remains.

Rajkahini (English: Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an IndianBengali-language crime drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji.^[2] The shooting of the film completed in June 2015 and the film released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee and Bangladesh actress Jaya Ahsan in other pivotal roles.^[3][4] It has been remade in Hindi by Mukherji as Begum Jaan.

Plot[edit]

In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Srijit's movie Rajkahini is weaved around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing eleven women. Bengal was broken up twice (1905, and then during Independence) - officially for demographic reasons and ease of administration - but actually, it was a strictly political move to curtail Bengal politics. The narrative follows the erection of the Radcliffe Line as the boundary between the newly formed nations of India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). As both the Congress and the Muslim League battle it out in courtrooms as to which side of Bengal will get which territory, in another part of Bengal is a brothel, situated right in the middle of Debiganj and Haldibari districts, which is the home and the world to eleven women and two men. Begum Jaan (Rituparna) is the boss, while the other women work under her as prostitutes. Begum's faithful bodyguard is Saleem Mirza (Nigel Akkara), a Pathan, and Sujan (Rudranil Ghosh) as their man-servant and entertainer. Begum Jaan is not concerned about Hindustan or Pakistan, her only concern is her business, which is running badly because of the partition and resulting riots. The local master and Congress worker (Abir Chatterjee) visits the brothel time to time with gifts for everyone.

Meanwhile, the political sky is darkening. The Radcliffe line passes between Debiganj and Haldibari, the former being placed in East Pakistan, and the latter remaining in India. Mr. Profullo Sen (Saswata Chatterjee) from Congress and Mr. Ilias (Kaushik Sen) from Muslim League (who were childhood friends but now separated) meet and discuss about the relocation of the people of the two districts. They discover that in its course, the boundary line has been drawn right through the middle of Begum Jaan's brothel. They meet Begum Jaan and tell her to evacuate her brothel along with her women, who refuses to budge. Meanwhile, the Nawab of Rangpur (Rajatava Dutta) was relocating with his family and followers to West Bengal, where he stayed at the brothel for a night. Begum Jaan complained to him about Mr. Sen and Mr. Ilias, to get them out of their respective parties. After visiting Delhi for the meeting of the rulers of the Princely States, he informed Begum that he is not an influential person anymore, and the Princely States were being integrated in the Indian Union, and the titles were being abolished. Begum decided to fight her own battle.

Exasperated at the futile attempts to evict Begum and her women from the house, Prafulla and Ilias turn to Kabir (Jisshu Sengupta), leader of a criminal gang, for help. Kabir and his gang commits all kinds of heinous crimes in these turbulent times of riots and violence. They chase Sujan and three other girls who were returning from the market. While Sujan manages to save the girls and help them escape, he himself gets butchered by Kabir. Sujan's death adds fuel to the fire in Begum's heart and they decide to have a final confrontation. Meanwhile, after being rejected by Begum Jaan, Master manages to trap a girl (Parno Mittra) into his schemes of getting back at Begum. He joins forces with Kabir and Prafulla. Ilias was dissatisfied with Kabir's ways but accepted the events as necessary for getting the job done.

That night, Kabir and his gang set fire to the brothel. The women, trained to use rifles by Saleem, put up a brave fight. Most of them get killed, however Saleem himself dies the most horrifying death. After the bloodbath, the remaining women including Begum enter the inferno of the house and willingly accept their death in their own 'country', while being narrated the story of the legendary Rani Padmini of Rajputana.

When dawn breaks, the house and its inmates have been burnt to dust. The film ends with Ilias, Prafulla, Master and lakhs of refugees from Debiganj and Haldibari coming together to see the remains of Begum Jaan's brothel, as Bharata Bhagya Bidhata plays in the background.

Cast[edit]

• Rituparna Sengupta as Begum Jaan
• Lily Chakravarty as Kamala aka Thamma
• Sudipta Chakraborty as Juthika aka Juhi
• Jaya Ahsan as Rubina
• Saayoni Ghosh as Koli
• Sohini Sarkar as Duli
• Parno Mittra as Golaap
• Priyanka Sarkar as Lata aka Bostumi
• Ridhima Ghosh as Fatima/Shabnam
• Ena Saha as Banno
• Ditipriya Roy as Nolok aka Bunchki
• Saswata Chatterjee as Mr. Profullo Mohan Sen
• Kaushik Sen as Mr. Muhammad Ilias
• Nigel Akkara as Saleem Mirza
• Jisshu Sengupta as Kabir (special appearance)
• Abir Chatterjee as Master
• Rudranil Ghosh as Sujan
• Biswajit Chakraborty as Mr. Akhtar, Inspector-in-charge of Debiganj
• Kanchan Mullick as Mr. Shashikanta, Inspector-in-charge of Haldibari
• Rajatava Dutta as Nawab of Rangpur (special appearance)
• Ashok Dhanuka as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Sanjay Gurbaxani as Jawaharlal Nehru
• Dicky Banerjee as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Patrick Eyre as Louis Mountbatten
• Steve Burroughs as Hastings Ismay
• Raja Biswas as Cyril Radcliffe
• Shataf Figar as lawyer of Pakistan
• Srijit Mukherjee as lawyer of India

Reception[edit]

The film received critical acclaim on its release, despite a few reviewers pointing out cinematic flaws. Upam Buzarbaruah, reviewing for the Times of India commented that '..Rajkahini's flaws don't take away from the beauty of the concept or its execution'.^[5] Shomini Sen of IBNLive concluded that 'Despite its glaring flaws and over stretched climax it [Rajkahini] makes for a compelling watch'.^[6] Hp compaq windows 7 ultimate x86 x64 pre activated iso 64-bit. The film also got a fantastic reception in the Film Festival circuit. It was the official selection at the International Film Festival of India at Goa in the Indian panorama section, Mumbai International Film Festival (MAMI), Imagine India Film Festival at Madrid, Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary, Sydney Indian Film Festival, Chennai International Film Festival, All Lights International Film Festival at Kochi, I-Views International Film Festival at Delhi, International Film Festival of Trichur, Habitat International Film Festival at Delhi and competitive sections at the New York Indian Film Festival, International Film Festival of Kerala, Delhi International Film Festival and Melbourne Indian Film Festival. Rituparna Sengupta won the Best Actress for her performance at the Delhi International Film Festival along nominations at New York Indian Film Festival and Melbourne Indian Film Festival.

Remake[edit]

A Hindi adaptation, Begum Jaan, made by Mukherji and starring Vidya Balan with an ensemble cast, released in April 2017.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'List Of Top 20 Highest Grossing Bengali Movies of All Time'. pycker.com. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
2. ^'Srijit Mukherjee's next film talks of people displaced by radcliffe people'. The Indian Express.
3. ^'Rajkahini is world cinema, made in Bengali: Saswata, Kaushik Sen'. The Times of India. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
4. ^'First Look: The 11 heroines of Srijit's Rajkahini'. The Times of India. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
5. ^Buzarbaruah, Upam (19 October 2015). 'Rajkahini'. The Times of India. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
6. ^Sen, Shomini (7 November 2015). ''Rajkahini' review: Hard-hitting narrative makes for a compelling watch'. IBNLive. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
7. ^'Vidya Balan all set for partition tale 'Begum Jaan''. 21 April 2016.

External links[edit]

• Rajkahini on IMDb

Rajkahini is a fictionalised historical drama that spells out an unique version of what happened to a group of women in a pocket within Rajshahi District (now in Bangladesh) during the application of the Radcllife line in August 1947, dividing India into India and East Pakistan, after Sir Cyril Radcliffe appointed by the British Government defined the line and it was put into action. This line had to pass through an old mansion that was home to eleven prostitutes of different ages and backgrounds and they put up a fight with arms against those who came to destroy the mansion, plant the wooden poles and mark the divided areas with barbed wire.

Rajkahini is a small, imaginary segment of the world today filled with barbed wires marking out refugees who had to leave their homes to nowhere. Firewatch codex. Currently, according to a UN Report, there are some 43 million uprooted victims of conflict and persecution worldwide. More than 15 million of them are refugees who have fled their countries, while another 27 million are people who remain displaced by conflict inside their own homelands — so-called 'internally displaced people'. Within this ambience, Rajkahini that elaborates on the history of refugees created during the creation of a new India and a New Pakistan, defines a reminder that forced displacement of human beings is not a new phenomenon in the world.

That's me right there I ain't ever goin' nowhere (can't stop) He ain't ever goin' nowhere (won't stop)⟓ That right there (hold up). Thats me right there lyrics. That's me right there I ain't ever goin' nowhere (can't stop) He ain't ever goin' nowhere (won't stop)⟓ That right there (hold up).

The inmates of the brothel represent a world in miniature or an undivided India before August 15 1947. Rituparna Sengupta playing Begun Jaan, who is apparently Muslim, gives perhaps the most outstanding performance of her career stripped of her starry airs and heavy make-up and costumes she uses in mainstream films as artillery. The old madam (Lily Chakraborty) appears to be Hindu, is educated and reads out to the smaller girls in the brothel, from good books and also from Abanindranath Tagore's Rajkahini. But the parallels between the Abanindranath novel for children and the film seem forced. More forced are the lengthy meetings and dialogues between and among Lord Mountbatten, Sir Cyril Radcliffe and one meeting with Nehru and Jinaah in attendance to discuss the manifestations and strategies of the Radcliffe Line, which are redundant and add needlessly to the long footage. Lectures and meetings tend to detract from the tragedy and threat to the eleven sex workers who have no clue to their next home. Much of these deliberations are likely to go over the heads of the mass audience. The changing of guards at Attari and Wagah border in contemporary times that the film opens with is also irrelevant, clipped and cut as they are from DVDs of the Change of Guards programme with blurred visuals. What made Mukherji contemporize the story remains a mystery.

Among the other girls is the beautiful teenager (Riddhima Ghosh) who does not have a single word to utter through the entire film but makes a shocking impact with her explosive silence. Taking off from the Manto short story, in the opening scenes, when her father comes to fetch her in a refugee camp, she sits up, unties the strings of her pyjamas, and spreads her legs. She has internalised rape so deeply into her system that even the father appears as a potential rapist! Begum Jaan tries to protect her from being violated but is forced to give in when Badshah demands her services as the newest girl. Two of the girls are adivasis (Sohini Sarkar and Shaoni Ghosh) who wear white saris hitched up above their knees and speak is their local dialects. Begun Jaan speaks impeccable Hindi and also Bengali which is quite confusing because she is basically from Bengal. Another intriguing feature is her talent at singing beautiful thumris which raises the question – why is she then a prostitute and a madam and not a courtesan?

Another beautiful girl, (Priyanka Sarkar), apparently a Brahmin, is a vegetarian who sometimes seeks pleasure in masturbation. Another (Sudipta Chakraborty) keeps dissuading her growing daughter Bunchki who wants to play with her and does not want to listen to historical and mythological stories from the ‘grandmother.' Rubina (Parno Mitra) is cleverly manipulated by the diabolic Master (Abir Chatterjee) who moves in and out of the brothel playing a social worker but actually aspiring to traffic a girl or two. Rubina falls victim to his charms and is trafficked by him. One of the most beautiful girls (Joya Hassan) is in love with the pimp Sujan (Rudraneel Ghosh) while another very young girl (Ena Saha) is an also ran. Srijit has cleverly used his brothel to dot the film with ample skin show and sex scenes that is one too many but may be a crowd-puller.

Begum Jaan, who heads the brothel with a pimp and Salim, a bodyguard-cum-security man (Nigel Akkara) is shocked when her main Babu (patron-customer) backs out of rescuing her and her girls from this crisis. The brothel keeps two very skinny and skeletal dogs looked after by Salim and their role in the story form a dramatic twist in the tale. A cache of arms someone had left behind is called to action and the girls and women train in wielding the lathi and the guns in preparation for the final fight against any attempt to destroy the abode. The two officers appointed to oversee the execution, Iliyas (Koushik Sen), representing the Muslim League and Mr Sen (Saswata Chatterjee), representing the Indian National Congress, are childhood friends whose friendship is threatened by the hate generated through the Partition. This is portrayed beautifully by the two actors, the script and the cinematography that focusses on large close-ups of half of the two faces, the other halves hidden by antique lamps suggesting the impact of Partition on friendship polluted and corrupted by the newly born communal conflict and the hatred it triggers between two communities.

The soft empathy of Iliyas surrenders to the ruthlessness of Mr Sen, who uses illegal means to throw out the sex workers. He hires Kabir (Jisshu Sengupta) and his goons to push them out with terror tactics. Srijit has deconstructed the chocolate boy looks of Jisshu by giving him a make-over as Kabir, who wears the Brahmin sacred thread yet proclaims he is also circumcised so faith does not bother him. Wearing a curly wig, stained teeth, a red, elongated bindi dotting his forehead and a dirty, loin-like cloth covering him, Jisshu does a complete about turn and gives the most magnificient performance of his career.

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Rajatava Dutta as Badshah is relatively a tame version of the regular Babu. Kanchan Mullick as the brutal police officer Sashi is very good but his is not a convincing characterization when compared with stories one has read and heard of real life Indian police officers under the British Government. His shocking reaction when little Bunchki strips in front of him remains unexplained. Mukherji has fleshed out the character of Master with an against-the-grain performance of Abir Chatterjee, who is a true-blooded villain wearing a kind face.

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Avik Mukherjee's camera caressingly moves into long shots to establish the presence of the haveli that strike emotional notes later on. The siennas, the rusts, the browns, the ochres and the ambers enrich the texture of the film with the datedness it demands and underlines the tragedy of a forgotten phase of the Partition story – untold, invisible and unsung. His camera wanders across butcher shops in the middle of the night, the flaming fires in the distance when the mansion goes up in flames, or when the walking fire, once called Salim Mirza, cries for help and Begum Jaan shoots him down till the last scene when Begun Jaan pulls close the massive doors of the haveli shutting the world outside forever. The ‘discussion' scenes are depicted mostly in Black-and-White to suggest that these are backgrounders to what happens in the foreground. The musical score sometimes dominates the scenario with its loud pitch instead of supporting the visuals and the narrative. The same applies to the sound design – too loud at too many places where muted sounds would have driven the point home better. The editing, except in the opening frames, is really good. The reference to Rani Padmini and her Jauhar with hundreds of Rajasthani women jumping into a well of fire does not work at all. It is the acting of the entire cast of around 20 and more performers that forms the high point of the film.

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Rajkahini is more a character-driven story than a history-driven one because the ‘history' in the film is quite diluted, colored and manipulated with imagination and fiction. The film will make for more intensive viewing if clipped by at least forty minutes. The bharata bhagya bidhata choice is creative but does not really add to the film's core. If one takes Rajkahini as a character-driven fiction film, it is really watch-worthy because it has some of the best performances in recent times by a repertory of some of the most outstanding actors in Bengali cinema. So please do not go looking for history in any form in this film. But it is certainly Srijit Mukherji's most ambitious and original film till date.

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