Krantikaal (2005) is an award-winning India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n Bengali

Bengali cinema

Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language filmmaking industries in the Bengal region of South Asia. There are two major film-making hubs in the region: one in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh .The history of cinema in Bengal dates back to the 1890s, when the first...

 feature film directed by Sekhar Das of Mahulbanir Sereng

Mahulbanir Sereng

Mahulbonir Sereng is a Bengali film directed by Sekhar Das.This film was released at 13th Brisbane International Film Festival 2004 and 19 April 2005 at Filmfest DC in Washington.-Plot:...

 fame.

Plot

The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar

Shilajeet Majumdar

Shilajeet Majumdar , first name also credited as Shilajit, is an Indian Bengali male singer songwriter and actor. Singer Shilajeet Majumdar lives at Ruchira complex at bypass kolkata-Education:...

, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly

Rupa Ganguly

Rupa Ganguly or Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress in the Hindi and Bengali language film industry, as well as television She became popular after playing Draupadi in the hit Television series Mahabharat , and in film is most known for her roles in films like Padma Nadir Majhi by Gautam Ghose,...

 stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...

 and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay

Haradhan Bandopadhyay

Haradhan Bandopadhyay is a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films.-Early life:Bandopadhyay started his schooling from Kushthiya Municipal School. He passed matriculation in 1944. In 1946, he finished his IA exam from City College, Kolkata, an affiliate of the University of Calcutta. He...

 who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist. It leads to a brief mutual self-discovery that gives rise to compassion.

Cast

• Rupa Ganguly
  Rupa Ganguly
  Rupa Ganguly or Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress in the Hindi and Bengali language film industry, as well as television She became popular after playing Draupadi in the hit Television series Mahabharat , and in film is most known for her roles in films like Padma Nadir Majhi by Gautam Ghose,...
  
  
• Soumitra Chatterjee
  Soumitra Chatterjee
  Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...
  
  
• Shilajeet Majumdar
  Shilajeet Majumdar
  Shilajeet Majumdar , first name also credited as Shilajit, is an Indian Bengali male singer songwriter and actor. Singer Shilajeet Majumdar lives at Ruchira complex at bypass kolkata-Education:...
  
   as Rajib
• Haradhan Bandopadhyay
  Haradhan Bandopadhyay
  Haradhan Bandopadhyay is a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films.-Early life:Bandopadhyay started his schooling from Kushthiya Municipal School. He passed matriculation in 1944. In 1946, he finished his IA exam from City College, Kolkata, an affiliate of the University of Calcutta. He...
  
  
• Arjun Chakraborty
  Arjun Chakraborty
  Arjun Chakraborty is an Indian actor and director presently based at Kolkata.He made is debut as an actor in the 1983 Hindi film Zara Si Zindagi, and his first major role was in the 1986 film Ankush starring Nana Patekar. Later he shifted mainly to the Bengali film industry starting with the 1989...
  
  
• Rita Dutta Chakraborty
• Rajesh Sharma
  Rajesh Sharma
  Rajesh Sharma is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently Punjab Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.-Early life:Rajesh Sharma was born in Toronto in Canada, to Devinder and Ranbir Sharma...
  
  
• arkapriya ganguli

Awards

• 2005 - National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
  National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
  The National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual award that was first given in 1968. The actors to have won the most awards in this category include Nana Patekar, Atul Kulkarni, and Pankaj Kapoor, each have received two....
  
   for Haradhan Bandopadhyay
  Haradhan Bandopadhyay
  Haradhan Bandopadhyay is a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films.-Early life:Bandopadhyay started his schooling from Kushthiya Municipal School. He passed matriculation in 1944. In 1946, he finished his IA exam from City College, Kolkata, an affiliate of the University of Calcutta. He...
  
  
• 2005 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
  National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
  The Indian National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali winners:...
  
  

• BFJA Awards  (2006)

• • Best Actor Soumitra Chatterjee
    Soumitra Chatterjee
    Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...
    
    
  • Best Actor In a Supporting Role Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
  • Best Choreography Premendu Bikash Chaki
  • Best Director Sekhar Das
  • Best Music Chiradip Dasgupta

External links

• Krantikaal in www.gomolo.in
• DVD/VCD Reviews, Movie Reviews, The Telegraph, 12 May 2006.
• BFI | Film & TV Database.