Bansuri: The Flute

Bansuri: The Flute
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Directed by	Hari Viswanath
Based on	Vanavillin Ambbu by Augusto
Produced by	Mou Roychowdhury
Starring	Anurag Kashyap Rituparna Sengupta Upendra Limaye
Cinematography	Grzegorz Hartfiel
Edited by	Sreekar Prasad
Music by	Debojyoti Mishra
Production companies	Vision 3 Global Pvt Ltd HarryToonz Studio
Release date	16 April 2021 (2021-04-16) [1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Bansuri: The Flute is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Hari Viswanath. Produced by Mou Roychowdhury, the film stars Anurag Kashyap, Rituparna Sengupta and Upendra Limaye in major roles.^[2]

The film began principal photography on 25 May 2019 and the first look poster was launched by Kashyap on his Instagram page.^[3] The film was released theatrically on 16 April 2021 in India.^[1]

Summary

The film is based on a boy, who discovers what is running in his blood, after playing a violin, gets inspired and tries to excel like his father.^[2]

Cast

• Anurag Kashyap as Sadashiv
• Rituparna Sengupta as Sapna^[4]
• Upendra Limaye as Maan Singh
• Danish Husain as Albert Rozario
• Masood Akhtar as Heeralal Mishra
• Meher Mistry as Mala
• Master Ankan Mallick as Madan
• Master Deepro Sen as David Rozario

Production

After the award-winning film Radiopetti,^[2][5][6][7] director Hari Viswanath decided to make his second feature film after he had several casual talk with few members who were a part of 2015 Indian Panorama section of IFFI, Goa. Rituparna Sengupta^[8][9] was chosen to play the protagonist, a single mother. A meeting with Anurag Kashyap led to his casting as the leading man along with National award-winning actor Upendra Limaye. Actors Masood Akhtar and Danish Hussain were also signed to play other important roles.^[2][10]

Official filming started by the end of May 2019 and continued till end of June 2019. The film was shot entirely in dooars area of West Bengal like Aibheel, Chalsa, Jalpaiguri and Mateli with support from Goodricke tea estate. Veteran Sreekar Prasad and Tapas Nayak joined the film as editor and sound designer respectively. Debojyoti Mishra^[11] composed two songs for the lyrics written by Anupam Banerjee. While Papon was a singer for one, Anweshaa sung the second song. Production designing was taken care by Jayashree lakshminarayan and Polish cinematographer Grzegorz Hartfiel was signed as the cameraman of the film.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Bansuri, an ancient side-blown bamboo flute

References

1. Scroll Staff (April 2021). "'Bansuri' trailer: Anurag Kashyap leads film about flute playing and dreams of success". Scroll.in.
2. Sen, Zinia (6 January 2019). "Rituparna to play Anurag Kashyap's wife in Hindi film". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
3. Bhanja, Sandipta (9 May 2020). "অনুরাগ কাশ্যপের বিপরীতে ঋতুপর্ণা, লকডাউনের মাঝেই প্রকাশ্যে 'বাঁশুরি' ছবির প্রথম ঝলক" (in Bengali). Sangbad Pratidin. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
4. "Rituparna Sengupta's South Connect". The New Indian Express. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
5. Suganth, M (16 January 2017). "Radio Petti: the first Tamil film to win at Busan". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
6. "'Radio Petti' Goes To Busan Film Festival". New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
7. "Busan: Tamil-language 'Radio Set' a First for Festival". Variety. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
8. Sen, Zinia (12 January 2019). "Rituparna Sengupta, Anurag Kashyap to keep a date with Mccluskieganj in Feb". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
9. Mukherjee, Shreya (24 June 2019). "Anurag's world of cinema is fascinating, always wanted to work with him: Rituparna Sengupta". HTCity. Retrieved 13 May 2020 – via PressReader.
10. "অনস্ক্রিন জুটি বাঁধছেন অনুরাগ-ঋতুপর্ণা" (in Bengali). Anandabazar Patrika. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
11. "বাঁশির সুরে দেবজ্যোতি, সঙ্গে শ্রেয়া" (in Bengali). Anandabazar Patrika. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

External links

• Bansuri: The Flute at IMDb