Mahalaya (film) explained

Mahalaya
Director:	Soumik Sen
Producer:	Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd
Screenplay:	Soumik Sen
Music:	Debojyoti Mishra
Cinematography:	Mrinmoy Nandi
Editing:	Niladri Roy
Studio:	Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd
Distributor:	SVF
Runtime:	108 mins
Country:	India
Language:	Bengali

Mahalaya (2019) is an Indian Bengali language drama film directed by Soumik Sen and produced by Nideas Creations and Productions Pvt Ltd. The film narrates an incident in Bengal in 1976, when Birendra Krishna Bhadra narrated and Pankaj Mullick composed widely popular Mahisasuramardini program, which has been playing on All India Radio since 1931 on the eve of Mahalaya, was replaced by a new program Durga Durgatiharini, narrated by Bengali film actor Uttam Kumar and composed by Hemanta Mukherjee. Subhasish Mukhopadhyay played the role of Bhadra and Jisshu Sengupta played the role of Uttam Kumar.^[1] ^[2]

The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.

Cast

Subhasish Mukherjee as Birendra Krishna Bhadra
Jisshu Sengupta as Uttam Kumar
Saptarshi Ray as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Prosenjit Chatterjee as Shashi Sinha, Former I & B Secretary of India.
Subhomoy Chatterjee as Pankaj Mullick
Kanchan Mullick as Paritosh Banerjee, Indian Administrative Service Officer, Former Joint Secretary to the Government of India and husband of Shakuntala Devi
Jayant Kripalani as Harold Stevenson, former Director-general, Akashbani, Kolkata
Bhaswar Chatterjee as Anil Bagchi
Sudipa Basu as Ramarani Devi, wife of Birendra Krishna Bhadra
Devlina Kumar as daughter of Pankaj Mullick

The official trailer of the film was released by Nideas Creations & Productions on 9 February 2019.^[3]

The film was released theatrically on 1 March 2019.