Teenkahon

2014 Indian film
  • 7 November 2014 (2014-11-07) (Seattle South Asian Film Festival)
  • 11 September 2015 (2015-09-11) ( Kolkata)
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Running time
124 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageBengaliBudget₹1.5 crore (US$180,000)

Teenkahon (Three Obsessions) is a 2014[1] Psychological mystery-thriller Bengali film directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji and produced by Monalisa Mukherji under the banner of Little Lamb Films.

Cast

  • Suman Mukhopadhyay as Shailen (Senior)
  • Kharaj Mukherjee as Radhanath
  • Ratan Sarkhel as Tarapada
  • Manasi Sinha as Radhanath's wife
  • Bhadra Basu as Pishima
  • Biswanath Basu as Akshay
  • Monu Mukhopadhyay as Gurumoshai
  • Ananya Sen as Nayantara
  • Barshan Seal as Shailen (Junior)
  • Parvathy Baul as Baul
  • Joy Sengupta as Sukomol Basu Roy
  • Sabyasachi Chakraborty as Gyanesh Mitra
  • Phalguni Chatterjee as Mejo Mama
  • Rituparna Sengupta as Anamika Guha
  • Ashish Vidyarthi as Joydeb Guha
  • Dhritiman Chatterjee as Dr Banerjee
  • Sumanta Mukherjee as Ronojoy Dutta
  • Kaushik Mukherjee as Deepak Addhya
  • Sarada Banerjee as Noni
  • Panchanan Banerjee as Chowdhury
  • Madhuparna Kumar as Ex-speaker's ex-wife
  • Pratirup Ghosh as Ayush (Junior)

Themes

Teenkahon is a triptych film. The Gulf Today described it as "a rare international art house film from Bengal which, as a piece of social document, tries to capture the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the increasing pollution of the spoken language and the changing social fabric of Bengal through three stories."[2]

Production

Development

Teenkahon is the first film of Little Lamb Films, the production house founded by Bauddhayan Mukherji.

Filming

Filming locations include places in West Bengal such as Kolkata and Bolpur.

Release

"This fest (DC Independent Film Festival) doesn't believe in showing hundred or more films like mainstream festivals. In the narrative feature category, they've chosen just eight films from across the world. Teenkahon is the only one from Asia in the competition section and it's a rare honour for a Bengali film."[3]

—Bauddhayan Mukherji, in an interview.

Teenkahon was the only Asian film which was showcased in the prestigious DC Independent Film Festival in 2015. Director Bauddhayan Mukherji was also one of the few selected filmmakers who took part in the summit hosted by US Congressional Entertainment Industries Caucus, the topic of which was the use of drones in films and policy decisions on the usage guidelines. The seminar was presided over by American politician Brad Sherman.[3]

Teenkahon is slated for a theatrical release on 11 September 2015 in India.

Festival screenings

Teenkahon was screened at the following film festivals in 2015.

Music

Teenkahon
Soundtrack album by
Released2014
GenreFeature film soundtrack

Playback singer Arnab Chakraborty was chosen to compose the film score for Teenkahon. The film will be his debut as a music composer. Singer Shreya Ghoshal was reported to record a song for the film.

Accolades

Teenkahon went on to receive multiple awards in various international film festivals, being the only Bengali film in consideration in most cases. It won a Special Mention Award from six student jury members in Paris.[4] Director Bauddhayan Mukherji was bestowed with the Aravindan Puraskaram for Best Debutant Director by Beena Paul, receiving a cash prize of ₹25,000 (US$300), a certificate and a statuette.[7]

Award Category Recipients and nominees Result
Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif[4] Special Mention of the Student Jury for Best Narrative Feature Bauddhayan Mukherji Won
Kerala State Chalachitra Academy[7][8] Aravindan Puraskaram

References

  1. ^ a b [1] Archived 9 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine. imdb
  2. ^ "Capturing the changing social fabric of Bengal". The Gulf Today. 5 February 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Ganguly, Ruman (23 February 2015). "Teenkahon chosen for DC film fest". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Sen, Zinia (13 February 2015). "Teenkahon wins 11th international award!". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ^ Vettath, Malavika (8 February 2015). "Rituparna Sengupta's 20 years in Bengali film". The National (Abu Dhabi). Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ^ Bhattacharyya, Gautam (8 February 2015). "Bengali film festival sells out screenings". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 9 September 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Selected for Aravindan Puraskaram". The New Indian Express. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Aravindan Puraskaram". The Hindu. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

External links

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