Bhonsle is a 2020 Bollywood drama film writter and directer is Devashish Makhija. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, who co-produced the film along with Piiyush Singh,in the title role of a retired Mumbai cop who befriends a North Indian girl and her brother, when the local politicians are trying to get rid of the migrants. Its first look was launched at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
Bhonsle was premiered in the ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ section of the 2018 Busan International Film Festival and was also screened in the non-competitive India Story section at the MAMI Film Festival, the 2018 Dharamshala International Film Festival, the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Bengaluru International Film Festival and the Singapore South Asian film festival. It won the Best Screenplay and Best Director Award at the Asian Film Festival Barcelona.It was released on Sony LIV on 26 June 2020.
Bhonsle Film Trailer :
- Directer : Devashish Makhija
- Producer : Manoj Bajpayee,Piiyush Singh,Abhayanand Singh,Saurabh Gupta,Sandiip Kapoor
- Writter : Devashish Makhija,Mirat Trivedi,Sharanya Rajgopal
- Starring : Manoj Bajpayee,Santosh Juvekar
- Music : Mangesh Dhakde
- Cinematography : Jigmet Wangchuk
- Edited : Shweta Venkat Mathew
- Productioncompany : Muvizz
- Distributed : Sony LIV
- Casting : Anmol Ahuja,Abhishek Banerjee
- Production Design : Sikander Ahmad,Shamim Khan
- Costume Design : Sachin Lovalekar
- Visual Effects : Sanchayan Bhattacharya,Nirav Chheda,Shruti Gham,Shubhankar Roychoudhury
- Genres : Drama
- Release date : 5 October 2018 (Busan),26 June 2020 (India)
- Running time : 128 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Film Story :
Through ‘Bhonsle’ we have tried to ask that most pressing question of our times – who is a Migrant? What defines someone as an Outsider to a land? Where is that line that demarcates boundaries? Who decides who stands inside and who stands outside of that line? If each of our histories is traced back far enough are we all not migrants to our lands in some way or another? Can Man even stake claim to Land? When did we become so arrogant as a species? And finally, at what cost, this arrogance?
Star Cast :
- Manoj Bajpayee … Bhonsle
- Santosh Juvekar … Vilas
- Ipshita Chakraborty Singh… Sita
- Aditya Agnihotri … Bus Conductor
- Abhishek Banerjee … Rajendra
- Krishna Bansal … Drunk Man 1
- Shardul Bharadwaj … Pandey
- Gauravansh … Govind
- Chittaranjan Giri … Mishra
- Geeta Guha … Chachi
- Sagar Gujar … P.o.headquarter
- Mohd Iqbal … Canteen Cashier
- Rajendra Jadhav … Police jeep driver
- Sunil Jadhav … Dange
- Suhasini Jaishankar … Akhilesh Granny
- Jairoop Jeevan … Tawde
- Manoj Joshi … Dhobi
- Juniors … Mr. Malik
- Laxmikanth Karpe … Old Man in chawl
- Narendra Khatri … Drunk Man2
- Rohit Lad … Amol
- Laxmi … Fatima Malik
- Dev Mehta … Ismile
- Sneha Miland … Mrs. Mhatre
- Kamal Mishra … Old man
- Neetu Pande … Mrs. Jha
- Govind Pandey … Chacha
- Vishwam Parelkar … Young Politician
- Sandeep Pednekar … Shinde
- Bharti Perwani … Pandey’s Wife
- Guru Prasad … Mahesh
- Sandhya Raj … Mrs. Yadav
- Raju Singh … Akhilesh
- Rajendra Sisadkar … Talpade
- Sonali … Mrs. Malik
- Vinod Suryavanshi … Dange aide
- Sushmita … Hospital Nurse
- Virat Vaibhav … Lalu
- Vijay Veer … Hospital Cashier
- Poornima Verma … Naseem Malik
- Kailash Waghmare … Sawant
- Shrikant Yadav … Mhatre
- Usha Yadav
Production :
Makhija started writing the script of Bhonsle in 2011 and completed it in 2015 but could not find the producers. In 2016, Makhija directed an 11-minute short film titled Taandav starring Manoj Bajpayee, about a head constable who breaks out into a dance to deal with the strains of his life.Bajpayee had suggested him to make a short “to prove that they could carry off the idea.” Makhija said that he made the short because he was not able to make Bhonsle. He said that the purpose of the short was to “show the world that a film about a havaldar (constable) could be interesting.” Makhija took inspiration for Bhonsale’s mannerisms from his father who had become “something else” after Makhija left for Mumbai from his hometown Kolkata.The script was selected by the National Film Development Corporation of India for their event, Film Bazaar in 2016.
Film Shooting :
The film’s Shooting Started on 21 October 2017. The Ganpati festival scene was shot for two days in Mumbai in August that forms a backdrop in the film.For the pullout shot on the day of the Ganpati immersion, Bajpayee was placed in the crowd of 70,000 people. The scene took six retakes to complete and throughout the shoot no one recognised Bajpayee.The filming was completed in late December, 2017.Several scenes were shot in closed narrow spaces as Makhija wanted to “create a sense of suffocation.
Bhonsle Movie Review :
Manoj Bajpayee’s Spectacular Performance Keeps Film On Tight Leash
A searing, shattering statement on lives engulfed in the darkness of a bright, bustling city. A bad guy, a damsel in distress and an unlikely avenger: on the face of it, the key figures in Bhonsle resemble character types that conventional Hindi cinema abounds in. But director Devashish Makhija’s third narrative feature, the kind of film that will not let the sleeping dogs lie, shares little else with Bollywood revenge dramas in terms of tone, texture and treatment.
Critics Rating by Saibal Chatterjee , from NDTV give 3.5 star out of 5 Star.
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.1 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 542.
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