Char Adhyay Explained

Char Adhyay
Director:Kumar Shahani
Producer:National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC)
Doordarshan
Music:Vanraj Bhatia
Cinematography:K. K. Mahajan
Editing:Sujata Narula
Runtime:110 min
Country:India
Language:Hindi

Char Adhyay (English: Four Chapters) 1997 Indian Hindi language drama film written and directed by Kumar Shahani. It is based on Rabindranath Tagore's last novel by the same name, written in 1934.[1]

The film is set in the late Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s, and a group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries involved with the Indian independence movement. It deals with the impact of political issues on personal lives and questions blind nationalism and blind adherence to a leader and delves into the ugly face of idealism.[1] [2] [3]

Most of the cast included non-actors, Nandini Ghosal was an Odissi dancer a disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Kaushik Gopal was a psychoanalyst, while Sumanto Chattopadhyay worked in advertising and acted in theatre.[3]

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rabindranath Tagore. The Essential Tagore. 2011. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-05790-6. 656.
  2. Web site: Kumar Shahani . The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art . 2014-05-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140510084006/http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/asiapacifictriennial5/cinema/filmmakers/kumar_shahani . 10 May 2014 . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: Char Adhyay: Tagore novel adaptation is set to create ripples . India Today . Madhu Jain. 14 July 1997. 2014-05-04.