Network is a 2019 Indian Bengali language thriller film that stars Saswata Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Rini Ghosh, Bhaskar Banerjee, Indrajit Mazumder, Saptarshi Roy, Kartikey Tripathi, Eshani Ghosh, Saayoni Ghosh, Anindya Chatterjee, Darshana Banik and others. The film is the debut feature of filmmaker Saptaswa Basu who has co-written the screenplay with Rini Ghosh. The film is slated to release in winter, 2018. This is the first Bengali feature film to feature a song of the RnB genre which is composed and sung by Raz Dee. The promotional track of this film is sung by Shaan and composed by Dabbu.
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Directed by | Saptaswa Basu |
Produced by | Neo Studios |
Screenplay by | Rini Ghosh Saptaswa Basu |
Starring | Saswata Chatterjee Sabyasachi Chakraborty Rini Ghosh Bhaskar Banerjee Indrajit Mazumder Saptarshi Roy Saayoni Ghosh Anindya Chatterjee Darshana Banik Rana Basu Thakur |
Music by | Dabbu Raz Dee Chirantan Banerjee Aviraj Sen |
Cinematography | Prosenjit Chowdhury (DOP) Ankit Sengupta (additional cinematography) |
Edited by | Anirban Maity Saptaswa Basu (co-editor) |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Budget | ?15 million (US$210,000) |
Screenplay
Abhijit Ganguly (played by Saswata Chatterjee) is a media professional who has long lost his fame. After his daughter's death he has turned into a walking shadow, who is recognized by no one. When he gets to know about his terminal disease which will allow him to live only for one more year, he decides to put in all his own resources to make a new film and make a comeback to regain his lost fame. He teams up with a group of talented actors and production management team including Raj and Shreya, who become very trusted to him. However, he gets betrayed by these very associates and is left ruined. He creates a reality TV show named "Their Life", a unique show which deals with celebrity lifestyle. Through this show, he starts to take revenge on the persons who betrayed him one by one in each episode.
- Saswata Chatterjee as Abhijit Ganguly
- Sabyasachi Chakraborty as Arindam Chakraborty
- Rini Ghosh as Shreya
- Indrajit Mazumder as Raj
- Kartikey Tripathi as Subho
- Bhaskar Banerjee as Subrata
- Eshani Ghosh as Puja
- Saayoni Ghosh as Priyanka (special appearance)
- Saptarshi Roy as Arjun Chatterjee
- Akshay Kapoor as Mr. Agarwal
- Anindya Chatterjee as Joy (special appearance)
- Darshana Banik as Prerna (special appearance)
- Rana Basu Thakur as Mr. Bose
The film commenced its principal photography in February, 2017 and was wrapped up in December. It was completed in three schedules including a song schedule, with intervals in between, to give time for rough edits and re-shoot decisions. A separate schedule was planned to shoot the climax sequence. The film has been shot in Kolkata, Bakrahat, Tajpur sea beach, Purple Movie town, Moon city studios, Raichak on Ganges. A few stock shots for the TV show sequence were shot in Andaman, Goa and Bangkok.
All music composed by Dabbu
The film is currently in post-production and is slated to release within a few months