Ranjan Ghosh's Mahishasur Marddini to compete at Bengaluru International Film Festival

Ranjan Ghosh’s upcoming film Mahishasur Marddini (A Night to Remember) will compete in the Asian Cinema Competition section of the 13th Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES), which is slated to be held from 3 to 10 March.

Starring Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee and Parambrata Chatterjee, the film will compete with 13 other titles from Iran, Israel, Japan, China, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India.

According to the writer and director, Mahishasur Marddini is a letter of apology to women for the wrongs done to them through the ages.

The film is set in one location and takes place over the course of a single night.

Ghosh said, “We would have been content with a berth in the Indian Competition section, but a selection in the Asian Cinema Competition was something unexpected. Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee and Koushik Kar are all very happy about this. This selection validates their faith in my script and in the film.”

The team has been struggling for years to get the film out.

The filmmaker said, “My young cast of Sritama Dey, Aryuun Ghosh, Arunima Halder, Abhyuday Dey and Purbasha Mal, along with actors Shaheb Bhattacherjee and Poulomi Das, my producers AVA Films and Vinayak Pictures, and my cinematographer Subhadeep Dey, art director Ashis Adhikary, stylist Payel Dutta, editor Amit Pal, music director Avijit Kundu, sound designers Abhik Chatterjee and Ayan Bhattacharya, colourist Manikumar PV, my EPs Debasree Datta and Anindya Sengupta - all of them had kept their faith in me, and I feel vindicated today with this very prestigious selection."