The auspicious beginning of Debi Paksha evoked nostalgia with the release of
Soumik Sen’s ‘
Mahalaya
’ teaser on October 8 last year. Now, 2019 starts with the unforgettable story of 1976 which shook the sentiments of every Bengali. The official poster of ‘Mahalaya’ is here and we can’t stop loving it, especially for we ‘Bongs’ as there are a lot of emotions attached with the word ‘Mahalaya’. Featuring Subhashish Mukherjee and Jisshu Sengupta with an age old newspaper format background, the poster teases us with Bengali nostalgia. While Subhashish will be seen as
Birendra Krishna Bhadra
, Jisshu will play
Uttam Kumar.
Check out the poster here:
The story revolves around the public outrage in 1976 following Akashvani Kolkata’s controversial replacement of Birendra Krishna Bhadra with Uttam Kumar for Mahisasurmardini, a program to welcome goddess Durga to earth.
Birendra Krishna’s Sanskrit recitation dedicated to goddess Durga in Mahisasurmardini became so famous and deeply embedded in the Bengali psyche that even 'Mahanayak' Uttam Kumar had to face severe public outrage when replacing the legend.
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