Dabaru
Appearance
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Directed by | Pathikrit Basu |
Written by | Arpan Gupta (dialogues) |
Screenplay by | Aritra Banerjee |
Produced by | Nandita Roy Shiboprosad Mukherjee Sanjay Agarwal |
Starring | Arghya Basu Roy Samadarshi Sarkar Deepankar De Rituparna Sengupta Chiranjeet Chakraborty Kaushik Sen |
Cinematography | Madhura Palit |
Edited by | Md. Kalam |
Music by | Bonnie Chakraborty Prasen |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
Language | Bengali |
Dabaru (transl. The Chess Master) is a 2024 Bengali biographical sports drama film based on the life of the Indian Chess Grandmaster ,Surya Sekhar Ganguly directed by Pathikrit Basu. The film unfolds a motivational tale about a young chess player, Surya, who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata during 1988–1998 to finally become a grandmaster from India.
Cast
[edit]- Rituparna Sengupta as Karuna Devi
- Chiranjit Chakraborty as Rathindra Nath Chakraborty
- Dipankar De as Nabin Sarkar, Surya's maternal grandfather
- Kaushik Sen as Samiran, a ruthless coach
- Shankar Chakraborty as Surya's father
- Kharaj Mukherjee as moneylender
- Biswanath Basu as neighbour
- Sanghasree Sinha Mitra
- Arghya Basu Roy as teenage Surya, who became the grandmaster
- Abhijit Guha (director) as Sports Minister Subir Banerjee
- Samadarshi Sarkar as young Surya
- Tirtha Mistry
- Sayanjit Roy as one of the players in exhibition match
References
[edit]- I first heard about Dabaru a day before my daughter was born [1]
- ‘Dabaru’: A Captivating Journey of India's Youngest Grandmaster Comes Alive on the Big Screen [2]
- Dabaru title track is all about energy, emotion, and inspiration [3]