Tolly Lights
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{{Infobox film
| name = Tolly Lights
| image = Tolly Lights.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Arjun Chakraborty
| writer =Suchitra Bhattacharya
| starring = {{ubl|Sreelekha Mitra|Arjun Chakraborty}}
| producer = S.D.Ahuja
| distributor =
| cinematography = Soumik Haldar
| editing = Subrata Roy
| music = Tejendra Majumdar
| released = {{Film date|2008|02|29|df=yes}}
| country = India
| budget =
| gross =
| runtime =
| language = Bengali
}}
Tolly Lights ({{langx|bn|টলি লাইট}} "Tolly Lights") is a 2008 Bengali-language Indian film directed by Arjun Chakraborty and starring Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyadarshini Chatterjee and Arjun Chakraborty. It is based on the novel Rangeen Prithibi by Suchitra Bhattacharya.{{cite web|author=Kushali Nag |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080213/jsp/entertainment/story_8898557.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525234058/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080213/jsp/entertainment/story_8898557.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2011 |title=The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Entertainment | S for sizzler |publisher=Telegraphindia.com |date=2008-02-13 |accessdate=2012-08-25}}{{cite web|title=Tolly tally - Tollylights|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080312/jsp/entertainment/story_9011073.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525234031/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080312/jsp/entertainment/story_9011073.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 May 2011|publisher=The Telegraph (Calcutta)|accessdate=5 October 2016|date=12 March 2008}}{{cite news|last1=Nag|first1=Kushali|title=Dreams are all we have|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080228/jsp/entertainment/story_8958900.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820161232/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080228/jsp/entertainment/story_8958900.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 August 2017|accessdate=20 August 2017|work=The Telegraph|date=28 February 2008}}
Premise
Sreelekha plays the role of a home-maker who falls into the glamour world of films by chance.
Cast
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- Sreelekha Mitra
- Abhishek Chatterjee
- Samaresh Chakraborty
- Komolika Bannerjee
- Biswajit Chakraborty
- Barun Chanda
- Supriyo Tagore
- Ratul Bhattacharjee
- Haradan Bose
- Gita Dey
- Anindo Banerjee
- Pradip Mukherjee
- Subarna Ghosh
- Rohan Dutta
- Arindol Bagchi
- Debjani Deb
- Arindam Sil
- Mita Chatterjee
- Monica Chakraborty
- Priyadarshini Chatterjee
- Shashank Arora
- Manjula Poley
- Uma Basu
- Amitava Bhattacharya
- Kharaj Mukherjee
- Arjun Chakraborty
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=Special appearance=
Controversy
In the 2020 controversial vlog Let's Expose It Face It, Sreelekha Mitra said that Rituparna Sengupta wanted to play the lead in the film. She made a phone call to Arjun Chakraborty and requested him to cast herself replacing Sreelekha Mitra.{{Cite web|date=18 June 2020|title='প্রসেনজিতের সঙ্গে তখন ঋতুর প্রেম, তাই নায়িকার চরিত্র পাইনি', নেপোটিজম নিয়ে বোমা ফাটালেন শ্রীলেখা|url=https://www.kolkata24x7.com/sreelekha-mitra-shares-her-experience-on-tollywood/|access-date=25 November 2020|website=Kolkata24x7}} Sreelekha Mitra claimed that Sengupta went on persisting that she would work at a lower remuneration if Chakraborty cast her.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|1422779|Tolly Lights}}
- [http://gomolo.in/Movie/Movie.aspx?mid=20979 gomolo.in] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721155827/http://www.gomolo.in/Movie/Movie.aspx?mid=20979 |date=21 July 2011 }}
Category:2000s Bengali-language films
Category:Bengali-language Indian films
Category:2008 directorial debut films
Category:Films based on Indian novels
Category:Films based on works by Suchitra Bhattacharya
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