Hrid Majharey Dvd

Hrid Majharey (হৃদ্‌ মাঝারে) (English: Live in my Heart) is a 2014 India-Bengali cult love tragedy film written and directed by debutant Bengali filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh. Inspired by Othello and incorporating elements from Macbeth and Julius Caesar, this was the first film in the Bengali language based on the works of William Shakespeare and is internationally considered as one of the top five World Adaptations of Othello. It was first presented as a tribute on his 450th Birth Anniversary in 2014. Critics consider it among the top ten adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema, since 1949.

The movie achieved cult status by having the unique honour of surviving a crucial two-year journey, from its launch in July 2014 celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birth-anniversary, to being showcased at a British Conference on the Bard held in London in April 2016 to mark 400 years of his death.

The Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board enlisted Hrid Majharey in ‘Additional Resources – World/International Adaptations of Othello’ for their ‘A Level Drama and Theatre’ course with the theme ‘Heroes and Villains – Othello’.Earlier in 2015, the movie was screened at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and was included in their PhD in Cinema Studies (‘Shakespeare and Indian Cinema’).

Still earlier in its year of release in 2014, it had earned a rare recommendation from Film London in its list of world cinema based on Shakespearean plays. In another major achievement, the film and its screenplay were included in the UGC Literature Archive through the ‘Shakespeare in Bengal’ project conducted by Jadavpur University.

Hrid Majharey had already created history by becoming the first Bengali film to be shot in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands after a gap of more than three decades. It was shot in 2013 in the Archipelagos. The last time was in 1979 when veteran filmmaker Tapan Sinha partly shot his children’s adventure film Sabuj Dwiper Raja in Port Blair.

Matinee idols Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen debuted together in a romantic pairing for the very first time in this modern revisiting of William Shakespeare.

Plot

The film begins with a shot in which a very dishevelled looking Abhijit (Abir Chatterjee) enters the room to find Debjani (Raima Sen) lying dead on the bed. The story goes back to a flashback and we get to see the reason behind such a fatal outcome. Abhijit is a professor of Mathematics at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He lives with his only sister Mallika who is a crime journalist by profession. A chance meeting with a soothsayer (Sohag Sen) who warns Abhijit to stay away from love for his own good is not given much importance by the professor. One rainy night he comes across a beautiful damsel in distress Debjani, stranded, as her taxi has broken down. He gives Debjani, a trainee heart surgeon, a lift in his car and Cupid strikes. They date and fall in love. Abhijit, however, faces a problem at his job when an infatuated student proposes him. He rejects and in retaliation she does something to get back at the professor. He is initially arrested, and then ostracized by one and all. Faced with such grave issues at work, he goes to the Andamans along with Debjani in search of a new life. There they meet Subhro (Indrasish Roy) who is Debjani’s junior from their high school days. Subhro runs an NGO at Port Blair and composes music in his pastime. Subhro and Debjani spend time together rejuvenating their old friendship. At times, Abhijit gets jealous of Subhro’s unwavering attention on Debjani. Subhro dies in an accident and this leaves Abhijit in a confused state. He begins to question himself about the prophecy of the soothsayer. What actually happens next? Does Abhijit leave Debjani? And how does she die?

Cast

Abir Chatterjee as Abhijit Mukherjee
Raima Sen as Debjani
Indrasish Roy as Subhro Sarkar
Barun Chanda as Professor Sen
Sohag Sen as Ho Chin Hua
Arun Mukherjee as Pagla Dashu
Tamal Roychowdhury as Professor Basu
Madhuchhanda Ghosh as ‘Reba Maashi’
Tanusree Goswami as Mallika Mukherjee
Prasun Chatterjee as Indra Halder
Aditya Sengupta as Amit Mishra
Sonali Sanyal as Shinjini Mitra
Breeti Sarkar as Niomi Dey