A special screening of the Bengali film Jhora Palok was organized recently.

Gracing the occasion was the cast and crew of this film along with other guests from the film and television fraternity.

Jhora Palok was the title of Jibanananda Das’s first collection of poems. The film is a biopic inspired by the life and works of the poet. It is neither a plain narrative nor a scholarly research work but a worthy attempt at combining both.

Jibanananda’s poetic development is followed by writer and director Sayantan Mukherjee, who also pays close attention to the poet’s psycho-sexual changes. Sayantan highlights the radical changes in diction, theme, and prosodic structure that Jibanananda’s poetry signaled. By doing this, he effectively highlights the larger literary context in which Jibanananda had to swim against the current. Jibanananda’s private life has been examined, and it is through this examination that some fictional elements enter.

The cast of the film consists of Bratya Basu as Jibanananda Das, Jaya Ahsan as Labanyaprabha Das, Rahul Arunoday Banerjee as Young Jibanananda, Debshankar Halder as Sajanikanta Das, Kaushik Sen as Buddhadeb Basu, Biplab Banerjee as Premen Mitra, Shantilal Mukherjee as Satyananda Das, Srila Mujumdar as Kusum Kumari Das, Padmanabha Dasgupta as Sudhindranath Dutta, Pawan Kanodia as D K Gupta and Sudipta Chatterjee as Samer Sen.

The music of the film was composed by Satyaki Banerjee.

Produced by AVA Film Productions Pvt. Ltd. & Presented by Pawan Kanodia.

The film is running at single screens and multiplexes in Kolkata.

Priyanka Dutta