Bioscopewala is an Bollywood drama film directer is Deb Medhekar and producer is Sunil Doshi. The film stars Danny Denzongpa and Geetanjali Thapa in lead roles and had it’s World Premiere at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival on 28 October 2017. The film is an adaptation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala and is scheduled to release on 25 May 2018 in India. The Official Trailer of the film was released on YouTube by Fox Star Studios on 8 May 2018. Bioscopewala has taken forward the timeline of Kabuliwala, the original story written by Rabindranath Tagore, from the 19th century to somewhere in the 1980s during the Taliban regime and changed the profession of Rehmat, the central character, from a dry fruit seller to a man who goes around showing films to children through his Bioscope.
Bioscopewala Film Trailer:
Directer : Deb Medhekar
Producer : Sunil Doshi
Screenplay : Deb Medhekar,Radhika Anand
Story : Sunil Doshi,Deb Medhekar
Base on Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
Starring : Danny Denzogpa, Geetanjali Thapa, Adil Hussain,Tisca Chopra
Music : Sandesh Shandilya
Cinematography : Rafey Mehmood
Editer : Dipika Kalra
Production company: Handmade Films Star India
Distributer : Fox Star Studios
Release date :28 October 2017 (Tokyo International Film Festival) 25 May 2018 (India)
Running time :91 minutes
Country : India
Language : Hindi
Production:
Development:
- In the year 2009, it was reported that French-Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi was planning to adapt Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala into a film but the project did not materialize. In the year 2012, it was reported that Sunil Doshi was collaborating with Atiq Rahimi to make Kabuliwala, which was an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s short story of the same name, and Amitabh Bachchan was going to play the title role.The film, which had its screenplay written by Atiq Rahimi and Jean-Claude Carrière, was set in modern-day Kolkata where a refugee from Afghanistan befriends a 5 year old Bengali girl and was supposed to be filmed in Kolkata and Jaisalmer for a period of 60 days beginning from June 2013.
- Apart from Amitabh Bachchan, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Sara Arrjun, M.K. Raina and Rajat Kapoor were also supposed to be a part of the film.But the project got indefinitely delayed. In the year 2016, Sunil Doshi approached Ram Madhvani with the idea of adapting the story of Kabuliwala to the screen who in turn directed him towards his colleague Debashish Medhekar, who was an ad-filmmaker at Equinox. Debashish says that, “When Sunil said to do this film I felt it was everything that I wanted to do in my first feature – it had children, magic realism, nostalgia, travel, and says something about the world we live in and how people are suffering.”
- In 2016, Deb Medhekar’s Bioscopewala was selected to be a part of the Work-in-Progress lab at the 10th NFDC Film Bazaar (an annual event where filmmakers present a rough cut of their projects for review and feedback by a panel of international film experts) held in Goa during November 20–24, 2016.
Film Casting:
- Director Deb Medhekar says that for the role of Minnie Basu he was not just looking for a good actress but also someone who resembles Meena Kumari, as a result of which he finalized Geetanjali Thapa for the role. Deb says, “I am a big Meena Kumari fan and I think no other actress can look as authentically beautiful and Bengali as Meena Kumari did in ‘Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam’.
- So when I was casting Mini in ‘Bioscopewala’ as an adult, I cast Geetanjali Thapa because she has an uncanny resemblance.”
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Bioscopewala Movie Box Office Collection:
India:
| Schedule | Amount (in Crores) |
|---|---|
| End of Opening Weekend | 0.25 Crores |
| End of Week 1 | 0.50 Crores |
| End of Week 2 | 0.55 Crores |
| Lifetime Collection | 0.55 Crores |
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