The Light: Swami Vivekananda Dvd

The Light: Swami Vivekananda (2013) is a bilingual (Bengali and Hindi) film directed by Utpal (Tutu) Sinha and produced by Tri Colour productions private limited. The film is based on the life and teaching of Swami Vivekananda. The film was a tribute to Vivekananda on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The film was dubbed in 18 languages.

Deep Bhattacharya played the role of Swami Vivekananda whom director Tutu Sinha first saw in a Bengali drama. Premankur Chattopadhyay and Gargi Roy Chowdhury played the characters of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Sarada Devi respectively.

Synopsis

Main article: Swami Vivekananda
The eventful life of Swami Vivekananda has been captured in this film. The film shows the transition from young Narendra Nath Datta to world preacher Swami Vivekananda. Different events from his life starting from childhood days to meeting with the mystic saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa at Dakshineswar, Vivekananda’s travel to Northern India, travel to the West (America, Europe), meeting with Sister Nivedita, and his works in India have been captured, thereby building his journey from being Narendranath to Vivekananda in bits and pieces.

Cast

Deep Bhattacharya as Swami Vivekananda
Sayak Chakraborty as Swami Vivekananda’s child hood ( biley )
Gargi Roy Choudhury as Sarada Devi
Premankur Chakraborty as Ramakrishna
Courtney Stephens as Sister Nivedita
Biswajit Chakraborty as Vishwanath Datta (Vivekananda’s father)
Piyali Mitra as Bhuvaneswari Devi (Vivekananda’s mother)
Archita Sahu as Moina Bai