Do you know that Hollywood star Hugh Grant and Supriya Pathak, aka Hansa from Khichdi, starred in a film collectively? The actor had a big function within the French movie La Nuit Bengali (The Bengali Night time). Directed by Nicholas Klotz, the household drama was filmed in Kolkata within the winter of 1987, and in addition starred Soumitra Chatterjee and Shabana Azmi. The movie was launched in 1988. (Additionally learn: Nana Patekar reacts to Naseeruddin Shah’s comment in opposition to ‘jingoist’ movies like Gadar 2, The Kerala Story)
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On Thursday Reddit channel Bolly Blinds N Gossip posted a nonetheless from the film, a lot to the shock of followers and cinema lovers. Though many know Supriya as Hansa from the tv present Khichdi, or from her numerous filmography in Indian movies together with Bazaar, Mirch Masala, Wake Up Sid, Ram Leela, right here is an underrated efficiency by the actor that’s massively underrated.
Supriya performed the function of Gayatri within the movie, which was primarily based on Mircea Eliade’s Romanian-language novel Bengali Nights, revealed in 1933. Actually, Supriya even talked about starring reverse Hugh in an interview with DNA again in 2013. “My daughter will get very enthusiastic about the truth that I as soon as starred reverse Hugh Grant, however I’ve to maintain reminding her, he wasn’t ‘the’ Hugh Grant in 1988. He was simply as charming even again then,” she stated.
The plot of the film revolves across the arrival of Allan in Nineteen Thirties Kolkata for work. He lives with Gayatri’s mother and father, Narendra (Soumitra Chatterjee) and Indira (Shabana Azmi), and shortly a romance develops between them. When their romance is revealed to the family by Gayatri’s sister, it turns the household the wrong way up.
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In the meantime, the discharge of the movie was restricted as a result of controversy round the subject material and the allegations surrounding the supply materials. Gayatri’s character was reportedly primarily based on the Indian poet Maitreyi Devi, who was believed to have had an affair with the writer of the e book. Maitreyi Devi was reportedly sad with how the e book’s depicted issues about her personal life to satisfy the context of a East-meets-West romance.
In response, she even wrote the model of the story from her perspective, within the 1974 novel Na Hanyate (It Does Not Die). The novel then went on win the celebrated Sahitya Akademi Award. Maitreyi Devi had additionally filed a court docket case in opposition to the producer, Philippe Diaz in Kolkata.
The Bengali Night time is now obtainable to observe on YouTube.
