The Light: Swami Vivekananda
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| Directed by | Utpal (Tutu) Sinha |
| Screenplay by | J. Misra Ashok Ranjan Chakraborty |
| Based on | Life of Swami Vivekananda |
| Starring | Deep Bhattacharya Gargi Roy Choudhury Premankur Chattopadhyay Courtney Stephens Biswajit Chakraborty Piyali Mitra Archita Sahu |
| Music by | Nachiketa and Dr. Haricharan Verma |
| Cinematography | Utpal (Tutu) Sinha |
| Edited by | Sanjib Dutta |
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Tri Colour productions private limited
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117 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali, Hindi |
The Light: Swami Vivekananda (2013) is a bilingual (Bengali and Hindi) film directed by Utpal (Tutu) Sinha and produced by Tri Colour productions private limited. The film is based on the life and teaching of Swami Vivekananda. The film was a tribute to Vivekananda on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The film was dubbed in 18 languages.
Deep Bhattacharya played the role of Swami Vivekananda whom director Tutu Sinha first saw in a Bengali drama. Premankur Chattopadhyay and Gargi Roy Chowdhury played the characters of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Sarada Devi respectively.
The eventful life of Swami Vivekananda has been captured in this film. The film shows the transition from young Narendra Nath Datta to world preacher Swami Vivekananda. Different events from his life starting from childhood days to meeting with the mystic saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa at Dakshineswar, Vivekananda's travel to Northern India, travel to the West (America, Europe), meeting with Sister Nivedita, and his works in India have been captured, thereby building his journey from being Narendranath to Vivekananda in bits and pieces.
This film was director Tutu Sinha's first work in big screen, before that he mainly worked as an ad film maker and television director. In an interview Sinha told– "I have directed serials like Trishna and Rajmahal. I have also directed the serial Sadhok Bamakhyapa up to its 1000th episode. I always wanted to make a film on Swamiji."
The film was shot in different places of West Bengal like Kolkata and in Odisha like Rairangpur, Similipal etc. Director Tutu Sinha had to travel all over India for the research work of this film. The events of Vivekananda's life in Rajasthan was recreated in Odisha. The scenes of Vivekananda's lectures at Parliament of World's Religions, Chicago in September 1893 was shot at Kolkata Town Hall.
Sarada Ma was one the most emancipated women of her times. The cinematography by Tutu is awesome and I feel the film will attract viewers not just from Bengal but beyond as well.
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