Bengali and Hindi VCD of 'Chokher Bali by Rituparno Ghosh Released at dvdvcdplaza.com

Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali (A Passion Pla)y , starring Aishwarya Rai has now been released in VCD form in both Bengali and Hindi. This is the first time the film was released on VCD format after its hall release in March 2004.

(PRWEB) December 8, 2004 - A period drama based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel by the same name, 'Chokher Bali', featuring Ash as a young widow in British-occupied Bengal during the early 1900s has been a sensational Bengali film this year produced by controversial movie king Bharat Shah.

After widespread national as well as international acclaim, Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali , starring Aishwarya Rai , was chosen as the opening film of the prestigious Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles(IFFLA) this year.

The Bangla VCd has been priced at Rs 299/ - and the Hindi VCD is priced at Rs 199/- The VCDs have been released under Shemaroo banner. DVD versions of this movie will also be released soon.

Review:
Great credit goes to Director Ghosh for a brilliant screenplay. The way he has established the characters Binodini (Aishwariya Rai) so gorgeous and plain, yet so unpredictable. The demure Ashalata (Raima Sen), her husband Mahendra (Prasenjit Chaterjee) and a host of other characters in the film. The movie has its own pace yet it is so "involving".

Aishwariya Rai plays a widow, and is without make up in most of the movie. She has acted fantastically and sure would be a National Award contender. With this she leaves whatever competition she had very far behind. Not only does she look gorgeous, one can't make out that Bengali is a foreign language for her.

Raima Sen plays the dominated underage wife to Prasenjit (Gajendra) has also acted well. She is demure and soft-spoken in most of the film, yet is very convincing in the parts where she needs to get aggressive.

The movie is shot very well; more so the entire movie has a "yellow tinge". It's been colour corrected in postproduction so as to give the 1902-1905 "look". The Art direction of the film is fabulous, not overstated yet dramatic in look, in the right places. The background score deserves special mention. Very minimalist and at times just a solo voice singing in Bengali hence highlighting the mood of the scene.

Credited cast:
Aishwarya Rai - Binodini
Prasenjit Chatterjee - Mahendra
Raima Sen - Ashalata
Lily Chakravarty - Rajlakshmi, Mahendra's mother (as Lilly Chakraborty)
Tota Roy Chowdhury - Behari
Sonali Chakrabarti   
Sudeshna Roy   
Mousumi Saha   
Suchitra Roy Choudhury   
Zarin Chowdhury   
Abhishek Bose

Title image:
http://www.dvdvcdplaza.com/prweb/choker_bali.jpg

# # #