Chokher Bali Movie Details :
Chokher Bali is a 2003 Bollywood Bengali language drama Movie based on the novel Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore. It was directer Rituparno Ghosh in 2003 and stars Aishwarya Rai as Binodini and Raima Sen as Ashalata. Ashalata & Binodini refer to each other as Chokher Bali. The other major characters are played by Prosenjit Chatterjee as Mahendra, Lily Chakravarty as Rajlakshmi, the mother of Mahendra, Tota Roy Chowdhury as Behari, Rajlakshmi’s adopted son and Swastika Mukherjee in a cameo role. The film was later dubbed into Hindi and was released internationally in that language.
Upon release, Chokher Bali met with critical review and positive box office reception.
Chokher Bali won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali and was nominated for the Golden Leopard (Best Film) award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2003. The film screened at the 34th International Film Festival of India on 19 October. It was the Official Selection at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2003 and was showcased in over 25 international festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Palm Springs, Karlovy Vary and Washington DC International Film Festival besides winning the Apsara Film Producers’ Award for the Best Regional Film 2004. Aishwarya Rai had won the Best Actress award at the Anandalok Awards 2003.
- Directer : Rituparno Ghosh
- Producer : Shrikant Mohta,Mahendra Soni
- Writter : Rituparno Ghosh
- Based : Chokher Bali,Rabindranath Tagore
- Starring : Prosenjit Chatterjee,Aishwarya Rai,Raima Sen,Tota Roy Chowdhury
- Music : Debojyoti Mishra
- Cinematography : Avik Mukhopadhyay
- Film Editing : Arghakamal Mitra
- Art Direction : Indranil Ghosh
- Costume Design : Sushanta Pal
- Assistant Director : Sangeeta Datta,Sandipan Majumdar,Sharanjeet Singh
- Sound Department : Bishwadeep Chatterjee
- Camera and Electrical Department : Sampad Ray
- Music Department : Sanjoy Das,Nirmalya Dey,Debabrata Dutta
- Productioncompany : Shree Venkatesh Films
- Distributors : Bodega Films
- Genres : Drama
- Release date : 2 October 2003
- Running time : 167 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Bengali
Chokher Bali Movie :
Story Of The Film :
Binodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
The book, Binodini, is the story of a young woman, who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies soon after they are married. She returns to her village and lives there for a couple of months until she sees one of her relations passing by there on her way to somewhere else. Binodini hails the woman and the two soon agree that it would be best if Binodini came to live with the woman and her son, Mahendra (who, by the way, was one of the first to see Binodini’s photo when she was unwed and up for grabs yet refused her on account of his being “unready for marriage”). Now, when the two arrive the woman’s son and his new bride are in the throes of passion, constantly sneaking off to be alone together; this infatuation does not last long, however, when Mahendra begins to see that his wife’s friend, Binodini, is more his type. The story details the lives of these three and Mahendra’s best friend as they deal with certain issues as distrust, adultery, lies, and numerous fallings-out between them. The movie correctly depicts what Tagore so skillfully wrote and is a sad, stirring tale of the deceit and sorrow that come from being unsatisfied and unhappy.
Star Cast Of The Film :
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Binodini (as Aishwarya Rai)
- Prasenjit Chatterjee – Mahendra
- Raima Sen – Ashalata
- Lily Chakravarty – Rajlakshmi, Mahendra’s mother (as Lilly Chakraborty)
- Tota Roy Chowdhury – Behari
- Sonali Chakrabarti
- Sudeshna Roy
- Mousumi Saha
- Suchita Ray Chaudhury
- Zarin Chowdhury
- Abhishek Bose
- Bharati Devi – Dying woman at varanasi
- Charlotte Hayward – Vomiting missionary
- Shadman Mahtab Mihad – Angel
- Josh Ilah Islam Nitol – Princess
- Naima Nigar Shuvra – Angel
Chokher Bali Movie Songs / Music :
The film’s background score is by Debojyoti Mishra and, notably, it contains no playback singing. Sreela Majumdar dubbed for Aishwarya Rai and Sudipta Chakraborty dubbed for Raima Sen.
Chokher Bali Movie Scene :
Culture :
In olden days in Bengal, women and girls who were best friends would often set a common nickname for themselves and address each other by that name. In this story, two friends Binodini and Ashalata call each other ‘Chokher Bali.’
Chokher Bali Movie Review :
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.0 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 1371.
Ghosh’s new film has source material of high pedigree (Rabindranath Tagore’s novel), sumptuous production design and gorgeous sepia-toned photography, but is self-indulgently, unnecessarily long. The big crime-in my eyes-was not using that time to properly tie up the narrative threads. It ends with a couple of unresolved plot points, and new unrelated themes introduced in the final minutes…probably meant to demonstrate the mysteriousness of the inscrutable East, but which reeks of shoddy film-making. I am annoyed by directors who hide behind cultural exoticism (you know: how could you foreigners understand it all because we Indians are from a culture where there are many unanswered questions, and other such nonsense) and are needlessly opaque in their narrative.
Avg. Users’ Rating, from Times Of India give 4 star out of 5 Star
Chokher Bali Movie Box Office Collection :
The film was declared a hit at the box office.
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