Rosogolla | |
Director: | Pavel |
Producer: | Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee |
Screenplay: | Smaranjit Chakraborty and Pavel |
Story: | Smaranjit Chakraborty and Pavel |
Cinematography: | Supriyo Dutta |
Starring: |
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Music: | Arnab Dutt |
Studio: | Windows Production |
Country: | India |
Language: | Bengali |
Rosogolla is a 2018 Indian Bengali historical drama film directed and written by Pavel. Rosogolla marks the big screen debut of Ujaan Ganguly and Abantika Biswas.[2] It is a fictionalized biopic of Nobin Chandra Das, a sweet maker from Kolkata, the inventor of Rosogolla.[3]
Rosogolla is based on the real-life story of the inventor of Bengal's own ‘Rosogolla’. The story revolves around the life and work of Nobin Chandra Das, a young man with a romantic heart and a brilliant mind. Nobin Chandra Das's father dies soon after Nobin's birth and his family faces a financial crisis. Nobin decides to become a sweet maker. With a zeal to create something fresh and unique, Nobin had set his heart on making the most delicious sweet of all time for his wife, Khirodmoni. After undergoing a lot of trials and tribulations, which even included alienating himself from his loved ones, Das finally emerged victorious and ended up creating one of the best things that could ever happen to all the Bengalis. Failure, misfortune, insult, nothing could stop Nobin. Khirodmoni Devi, his wife. She had the courage to run a business in that era. This invention makes him famous in Bengal. Based in 19th century Bengal, Rosogolla is an innocent story of love, struggle and the human aspiration to do something new.[4]