Asha Jaoar Majhe
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| Asha Jaoar Majhe | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Written by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Produced by | For Films |
| Starring | Ritwick Chakraborty Basabdatta Chatterjee |
| Cinematography | Mahendra J. Shetty Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Edited by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Music by | Alokananda Dasgupta |
| Distributed by | For Films |
Release dates | |
Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | India |
Asha Jaoar Majhe (transl. Labour of Love) is a 2014 Indian film by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. The film stars Ritwick Chakraborty and Basabdatta Chatterjee as an unnamed married couple, which brings focus to the hard lives endured by ordinary working people in Kolkata.
The film premiered at the 11th Venice Days at the Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2014[3][4] At the 62nd National Film Awards, it won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director and Best Audiography.[5]
A woman (Basabdatta Chatterjee) works in a handbag factory while a man (Ritwick Chakraborty) works the night shift at a printing press. The film follows that young married couple as they go about their day, how they stay apart all day long except one brief moment when they get to be with each other. The entire movie has no dialogue. It has background music and some classic old songs thrown in for a soothing effect.
Cast
- Ritwick Chakraborty as the Man
- Basabdatta Chatterjee as the Woman