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His last film ‘pratidwandi’ received appreciation from the audience and critics alike and now director Saptaswa Basu has announced another film titled ‘Doctor Bakshi’.

The trailer of this fast-paced thriller is out now and it gives a glimpse of how engaging the narrative will be with loads of twists and turns in the plot.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘pratidwandi’ will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19. For an official screening at Cannes, it is compulsory to have French subtitles for all the films. An English subtitle is also required. Two professors from Jadavpur University and Savitribai Phule Pune University, who were independently assigned the task of doing the English and French subtitling of the film by National Film Archive of India (NFAI), finished the work last week.While

Arijit Dutta, the owner of Satyajit Ray's Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Aranyer Din Ratri and pratidwandi, is negotiating the sale of their film rights to a US-based film distribution firm. Arijit, the son of Ray's cinematographer Soumendu Roy and dedicated keeper of the celluloid heritage of Bengal, is backed by Ray’s son Sandip, who cited The Apu Trilogy, Nayak, Mahanagar, Charulata and Jalsaghar as his top-five festival favourites from his father’s works. Film writer Amitava Akash Nag included Ashani Sanket in his selection. Arijit said they were selling the rights as keeping and preserving the original negatives was too much of a strain.

Satyajit Ray's "pratidwandi" (The Adversary), made in 1970 with Dhritiman Chatterjee in the lead role of a disillusioned job-seeker in a rapidly changing city, has resurfaced at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in the form of a restored print.

After his first feature film ‘Network’, Saptaswa Basu is coming up with his next directorial ‘pratidwandi’. Saswata Chatterjee yet again will be seen playing one of the leads alongside Rudranil Ghosh.

Saswata will be seen as Dr. Bakshi while Rudranil will play the match teacher Sukumar Sen and their characters have been plotted against each other.

The copyright of three Satyajit Ray movies - 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne', 'Aranyer Din Ratri' and 'pratidwandi' - may soon be sold off to a US film distribution company.

Saptaswa Basu’s next ‘Doctor Bakshi’, a spin-off from his previous film ‘pratidwandi’ will see Bonny Sengupta in a more serious role than ever. This is the first time the popular actor is playing a negative role with grey shades. He will be seen as Aditya Sengupta, an ex-convict. On the occasion of Holi, the makers came up with the first look of Bonny from the film releasing a short video clip.

Saptaswa Basu’s much-anticipated film ‘Doctor Bakshi’, a spin-off from his previous film ‘pratidwandi’ has finally locked a release date. The thriller in which actor Bonny Sengupta is playing a negative role with grey shades for the first time in his career will hit the theatres on November 4. Bonny will be seen as Aditya Sengupta, an ex-convict in the film.

A restored print of Satyajit Ray-directed 1970 urban drama “pratidwandi”, the first in the auteur’s “Calcutta Trilogy”, will be screened with 12 other classic films from across the world at the Cannes Film Festival in southern France from May 17 as part of the classics’ selection.

There’s a major change in Saptaswa Basu’s next film ‘Doctor Bakshi’s cast.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘pratidwandi’, restored in 4K by National Film Archive of India (NFAI), has been selected as part of Cannes Classics this year.

Bonny will be seen as Aditya Sengupta, an ex-convict. The thriller will be shot in Kolkata, Murshidabad and in the hilly areas of Kurseong.

Director Anup Sengupta has just completed shooting pratidwandi with Ranjit Mallick, Rahul, Priyanka, Pia, Rajatava Dutta, Dipankar De among others.

Saptaswa Basu’s much-anticipated film ‘Doctor Bakshi’, a spin-off from his previous film ‘pratidwandi’ has finally locked a release date. The thriller in which actor Bonny Sengupta is playing a negative role with grey shades for the first time in his career will hit the theatres on November 4. The thriller has been shot in Kolkata, Murshidabad and in the hilly areas of Kurseong.

It’s finally a wrap for Saptaswa Basu’s next ‘Jotugriho’. The last day of the shoot took place in Bhowanipore as Bonny Sengupta, one of the leads in this thriller, shot for a few important scenes.

The makers haven’t yet announced the new release date after sharing the latest update on social media. According to sources, they need more time on post-production to deliver a better big screen experience. The makers have also assured that there are some exciting updates in store and these won’t disappoint the fans.

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The film, which highlights a set of medical scams, revolves around a charming doctor (Parambrata) who takes up his own path of justice, a writer (Subhashree) who is caught in a web of mystery and a criminal (Bonny) recently out of jail. Going by the fast-paced trailer, it looks like a feel of illusion and trap in every scene which will surely make the audience wait for the film.

Dhritiman Chatterjee, whose latest ‘Shobdo Kolpo droom’ released last week, said that he never had any interest in mainstream films from the 60s and 70s. The veteran actor revealed that he rather preferred watching how renowned directors around the world worked instead of taking acting as a career.

The story starts when Dr. Bakshi’s son gets kidnapped and Sukumar becomes one of the suspects. When investigation starts it’s revealed there were few murders in the city and all are somehow connected to the investigation.

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