Asha Jaoar Majhe
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A poster for Asha Jaoar Majhe.
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| Directed by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Produced by | For Films |
| Written by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
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Ritwick Chakraborty Basabdatta Chatterjee |
| Music by | Alokananda Dasgupta |
| Cinematography | Mahendra J. Shetty Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Edited by | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Distributed by | For Films |
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84 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Asha Jaoar Majhe (English: Labour of Love) is a 2014 Bengali-language film by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. The film stars Ritwick Chakraborty and Basabdatta Chatterjee as an unnamed married couple, where it brings focus to the hard lives endured by ordinary working people in Calcutta.
The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2014, where it won the Best Debut Director in the Venice Days. At the 62nd National Film Awards, it won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director and Best Audiography.
The film released in India on 26 June 2015.
The woman (Basabdatta Chatterjee) works in a handbag factory while the man (Ritwick Chakraborty) works the night shift at a printing press. The film follows that young married couple as they go about their day, how they stay apart all day long except one brief moment when they get to be with each other.
62nd National Film Awards (India)
71st Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days)
Marrakech International Film Festival
Bangalore International Film Festival
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