Crowd Funded Film Doodh Pither Gachh To Release on 3rd April
Doodh Pither Gachh is a one of its kind Bengali film. You must be wondering why I say so!! The film has been funded by 930 families from the village Aranghata in Nadia district and 196 Cinelovers from India and abroad.
A press conference was organized to release the trailer and also announce the release date of the film. Director Ujjwal Basu, cast members consisting of Harshil Das, Daminee Benny Basu, music director Joy Sarkar and others graced the occasion.
Gour is a seven year old country boy. He has speech disorder and hence he is not able to speak properly. He is made fun of by his friends. However he is a naughty child with eyes full of dreams. He believes that rice cake trees exist like other fruit bearing trees. From this belief, he plants a rice cake, waters it and waits for the sprouting. One day he finds a seedling. He asks his grandmother about it and his grandmother affirms his belief. He thinks there is a world where rice cake trees exist. He runs away one day from his village and catches a train hoping to go to his dreamland.
Speaking at the event, actress Daminee said “I wanted to be a part of this film when I first heard the script as I knew that this will be one film worth remembering. I was not aware about the future of the film but I wanted to be in this film. I was directed by the teacher of the village school who wanted to make the film. This was a great experience indeed”.
The story and screenplay is by Ujjwal Basu. The producer of the film is ACL MOVIES (1126 contributors) and presented by Payel Chakraborty Bhattacharyya. The distributor is Shyamsakha.
“Ujjwal gave me great independence while composing the music of the film. I am glad I worked in this film. This was a great experience” said Joy Sarkar.
The DOP is Santanu Banerjee while the editor is Anirban Maity.
Anath Bandhu Ghosh has sung the song in the film.
Harshil Das will be seen in the role of Gour, Debangana Gon will be seen in the role of Basanti, Gour’s sister, Daminee Benny Basu will be seen in the role of Gour’s mother and so on.
The film is eyeing for release on 3rd April.
Priyanka Dutta