Padatik (2024 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Padatik

| image = Padatik (2024 film).jpeg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| native_name =

| director = Srijit Mukherji

| writer = Srijit Mukherji

| screenplay = Srijit Mukherji

| story = Srijit Mukherji

| based_on = Mrinal Sen

| producer = {{Plainlist|

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| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| narrator =

| cinematography = Indranath Marick

| editing = Srijit Mukherjee

| music = Salil Chowdhury
Rabindranath Tagore
Kabir Suman

| studio = Friends Communication,
Big Screen Productions House

| distributor = PVR Inox Pictures

| released = {{Film date|2024|08|15|India|df=y}}

| runtime = 126 Minutes

| country = India

| language = Bengali

| gross =

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Padatik is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language biographical drama film written, directed and edited by Srijit Mukherji. Produced by Firdausul Hasan and Prabal Halder under the banners of Friends Communication and Big Screen Productions, the film focuses on Mrinal Sen's active lifetime and his contribution in the Bengali Cinema.{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/mrinal-sen-biopic-padatik-goes-on-floor-chanchal-chowdhury-says-my-courage-and-qualifications-will-be-tested/articleshow/97020054.cms|title=Mrinal Sen biopic 'Padatik' goes on floor, Chanchal Chowdhury says 'my courage and qualifications will be tested'|language=en|date=16 February 2023|newspaper=The Times of India|access-date=2023-02-16|issn=0971-8257}}{{Cite web|language=bn|title=মৃণাল সেনের ভূমিকায় চঞ্চল চৌধুরী, কালজয়ী পরিচালকের প্রয়াণ দিবসে 'বড় আপডেট' সৃজিতের|url=https://eisamay.com/entertainment/cinema/chanchal-chowdhury-to-play-as-mrinal-sen-in-srijit-mukherji-diretorial-padatik/articleshow/96623498.cms|date=30 Dec 2022 |access-date=2023-02-16|website=EI Samay}} The film was released theatrically on 15 August 2024, India's Independence Day.{{Cite web|date=2024-07-03|language=bn|title=স্বাধীনতা দিবসে বক্স অফিসে জোর টক্কর; বাবলি,পদাতিক না স্ত্রী ২— শেষ হাসি কার?|url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/from-stree-2-to-khel-khel-main-veeda-babli-and-padatik-5-films-to-clash-at-box-office-on-independence-day-31720016772762.html|access-date=2024-07-31|website=Hindustantimes Bangla}} At the 8th Filmfare Awards Bangla, it received fourteen nominations, of which won awards for Best Make-up (Kundu), Best Production design (Tanmay Chakraborty) and Best Editing (Mukherji) and Best Screenplay (Mukherji).

Plot

Mrinal Sen's journey from his struggling early days as an idealistic filmmaker during India's independence to his pivotal role in the Indian New Wave cinema movement in 1950s Calcutta, working alongside Satyajit Ray. Also, the great lyricist turned writer Stotrom Das had great involvement in the naxalities movement whom, the great Shubham Shill finds and arrests, which causes a civil unrest and riots throughout the Calcutta.

Cast

Create

Initially, Srijit decided to make a biopic on Mrinal Sen in the form of a web series, but later decided to make a film after changing his mind. The shooting of Mrinal Sen's biopic 'Padatik' began on 15 January 2023 in Kolkata.{{Cite web|date=2023-01-13|language=bn|title=এ তো অবিকল মৃণাল! সৃজিতের 'পদাতিক'-এর ফার্স্ট লুক প্রকাশ্যে, চঞ্চলকে চেনা দায়|url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/srijit-mukherji-s-padatik-s-first-look-out-check-out-chanchal-chowdhury-and-monami-ghosh-as-mrinal-and-geeta-sen-in-mrinal-sen-s-biopic-31673592737644.html|access-date=2023-02-16|website=Hindustantimes Bangla}}

Reception

Padatik won the Best Screenplay award at the 2024 New York Indian Film Festival.{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-06-03 |title=‘Padatik’ wins big at New York Indian Film Festival |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/tv-film/news/padatik-wins-big-new-york-indian-film-festival-3625756 |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}

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