Kartabya Explained

Kartabya
Director:	Swapan Saha
Producer:	Pijush Saha Subrata Saha Roy
Starring:	Prosenjit Chatterjee Rachna Banerjee Lokesh Ghosh Dulal Lahiri
Music:	Ashok Bhadra
Studio:	Friends International
Distributor:	Eskay Movies
Country:	India
Language:	Bengali

Kartabya (Bengali: কর্তব্য in Bengali pronounced as /kortobe̯o/) is a 2003 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Swapan Saha and produced by Pijush Saha and Subrata Saha Roy.^[1] It is a remake of the 2001 Tamil-language film Samudhiram.

Cast

• Prosenjit Chatterjee^[1]
• Rachna Banerjee^{[1] [2]}
• Lokesh Ghosh
• Dulal Lahiri
• Locket Chatterjee
• Tapas Paul^[2]
• Abhishek Chatterjee
• Moumita Chakraborty
• Kalyani Mondal
• Badsha Maitra
• Manjushree Ganguly

Music

Ashok Bhadra composed the soundtrack album to the film, which includes songs rendered by Annupamaa, Soham Chakraborty, Shreya Ghoshal, Kumar Sanu and Babul Supriyo. The lyrics were written by Gautam Susmit.

Release

Kartabya was released on 26 November 2003.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: প্রসেনজিৎ-রচনা জুটি কী ভাবে কাঁপিয়েছে বাংলা সিনেমা, দেখুন ছবিতে. Bengali. Explore in pictures how the Prosenjit-Rachna pair rocked Bengali cinema. Ebela.
2. News: Acharya. Anindita. Between the reel and the real falls the shadow: the two facets of actor Tapas Paul's life. Hindustan Times. 3 January 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190806003606/https://www.hindustantimes.com/between-the-reel-and-the-real-falls-the-shadow-the-two-facets-of-actor-tapas-paul-s-life/story-wW7dVF02RwdokeY4pzI2xL.html. 6 August 2019.
3. News: Movie Review. The Telegraph. 26 November 2003. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190823204314/https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/movie-review/cid/1661795. 23 August 2019.