Sohra Bridge
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{{Infobox film
| name = Sohra Bridge
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| director = Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
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| starring = Barun Chanda
Niharika Singh
Pratik Sen
Nishita Goswami
Paul Phukan
Merlvin Jude Mukhim
Sankar Dey
| producer = Mithu Dey
| distributor = Homemade Films
| cinematography = Rana Dasgupta
| editing = Dipak Mandal
| released = {{Film date|2016|02|26|df=y}}
| runtime = 104 minutes
| country = India
| language = Bengali, Assamese and Khasi
| music = Gaurab Chatterjee
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Sohra Bridge is a multilingual Indian drama film directed by late Bappaditya Bandopadhyay starring Niharika Singh and Barun Chanda in primary roles.{{Cite news |last=Sen |first=Zinia |date=12 January 2017 |title=Remembering Bappaditya Bandopadhyay |newspaper=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Remembering-Bappaditya-Bandopadhyay/articleshow/49721068.cms |access-date=17 March 2019}} Memories, imagination and reality come together in the journey of a young girl looking for her estranged father. The unexplored, beautiful and politically volatile North East of India provides the backdrop.
This was Bappaditya's last film and was released posthumously in February 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/115026115-bappaditya-bandopadhyays-sohra-bridge-2016-last-bow-brilliant-film-maker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123162334/http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/115026115-bappaditya-bandopadhyays-sohra-bridge-2016-last-bow-brilliant-film-maker|url-status=usurped|archive-date=23 January 2017|title=Bappaditya Bandopadhyay's Sohra Bridge (2016): the last bow of a brilliant film-maker|website=washingtonbanglaradio.com|access-date=23 April 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movie-details/sohra-bridge/movieshow/61256158.cms|title=Sohra Bridge|date=26 February 2016|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|access-date=23 April 2018}} The dialogue of the film is in English, Bengali, Assamese and Khasi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nelive.in/meghalaya/entertainment/sohra-bridge-multi-lingual-film-remember|title=Sohra Bridge : A multi-lingual film to remember|access-date=23 April 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://thenortheasttoday.com/meghalaya-sohra-bridge-a-movie-that-narrates-a-daughters-journey-for-her-father/|title=Meghalaya: 'Sohra Bridge'- a movie that narrates a daughter's journey for her father!|date=16 April 2017|website=thenortheasttoday.com|access-date=23 April 2018}}
Plot
Sohra Bridge tells the story of a daughter who embarks on a journey across the remote expanses of North-East India, looking for her father. She finds herself drawn towards a complex labyrinth of memory and imagination. The film conjures up a magical reality where real gives way to the surreal, bloodshed to poetry, memory to the imaginary and vice versa.
Cast
- Barun Chanda as Ria's father
- Niharika Singh as Ria
- Nishita Goswami
- Pratik Sen as Asish
- Moumita Mitra
- Paul Phukan
- Merlvin J Mukhim
- Raj Banerjee
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