Autograph Dvd

Autograph is a 2010 Indian Bengali drama film by debutant director Srijit Mukherji. The movie is a tribute to Satyajit Ray’s 1966 film Nayak and yesteryear Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, who portrayed the title role in the film.This was the First of the forthcoming Long Collaboration between Srijit Mukherjee & Prosenjit Chatterjee. The movie is being remade in Malayalam.

Plot

The film starts with a proposal of remaking Satyajit Ray’s famous Nayak by a debutant director and storywriter Shuvobrata (Indraneil Sengupta) to famous Bengali actor Arun Chatterjee (Prosenjit). Arun approves Shuvobrata’s proposal and agrees to finance the project. Shuvobrata requests his live-in girlfriend Srinandita or Shrin (Nandana Sen) to act opposite Arun. In the meantime, Arun and Shrin become close friends and Arun tells her about various incident from his past in an emotionally triggered condition. The exchange is videotaped accidentally and Shuvobrata on discovering it leaks it to the press, without Srinandita’s consent, as a publicity stunt for the film. Srinandita leaves Shuvobrata on learning of this indiscretion. Arun, furious about the leak, bars the film from being released. Arun later learns that Shrin had no role in the leak and apologizes to her. The movie ends with Shrin leaving a note and a phone number for Arun at a roadside dhaba where they had met earlier.

Cast

Prosenjit Chatterjee as Arun Chatterjee
Nandana Sen as Srinandita
Indraneil Sengupta as Shuvobrata Mitra
Rudraprasad Sengupta
Biswajit Chakraborty
Pijush Ganguly
Dwijen Bandopadhyay as Parthapratim Nag
Sohini Paul
Dhruv Mookerji
Dilip Roy
Srijit Mukherji
Sanghasri Sinha as Nandini