Doodhpither Gachh

Doodhpither Gachh
Release poster
Bengali	দুধপিঠের গাছ
Directed by	Ujjwal Basu
Written by	Ujjwal Basu
Screenplay by	Ujjwal Basu
Story by	Ujjwal Basu
Produced by	Payel Chakraborty Bhattacharyya & 1126 Producers
Starring	Daminee Benny Basu Kaushik Roy Shibani Maity Harshil Das
Cinematography	Santanu Banerjee
Edited by	Anirban Maity
Music by	Joy Sarkar
Production company	ACL Movies
Distributed by	Shyamsakha
Release date	21 October 2020 (2020-10-21)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Doodhpither Gachh (দুধপিঠের গাছ) is a Crowd funded Bengali film, where Funded by 930 families from the village 'Aranghata' located in Nadia District, West Bengal, India & 196 Cinegoers from within the country and Abroad., written and directed by debutant director Ujjwal Basu. The music of the film is composed by Joy Sarkar. Featuring Daminee Benny Basu, Kaushik Roy, Shibani Maity and Harshil Das, the film revolves around the activities of a seven years old country boy Gour, who has speech impediment. The film was released theatrically on 21 October 2020 coinciding with Durga puja.

Plot

Gour (Harshil Das), a 7 years old country boy, can't speak properly due to speech disorder. He lives with his two sisters, Lakkhi (Riya Das) and Basanti (Debangana Gon), along with his parents. The children run around almost always. They reach school late mostly; quarrels with classmates; throw stones at jujube tree of other and pick off jujube without taking permission; they go away in foggy morning to collect date palm juice; and sometimes watch movies standing outside of neighbour's house. Gour eats rice cake made by his mother (Beny Basu) and imagines of rice cake tree. His tender mind believes that rice cake tree exists likewise other fruit bearing trees. From this belief he sows a rice cake, waters it and waits for the sprouting. One day his grandmother (Shibani Maity) comes to their home. The children listen to their grandmother's tale in the evening. She says that she will go to Kashi, the sacred place of Lord Shiva. Then Gour asks her if there are milky rice cake trees at Kashi. Grandmother makes fun of his words and tells that there so many different kind of cake trees are found. Next day Lakkhi shows grandmother the place where his brother plants a rice cake and a sapling also emerges. Gour asks to grandmother, “Is this a rice cake tree?” She smiles and indulges which invigorates his belief. He fantasizes a new world where various rice cake trees are supposed to exist. Infantile mind wants to wing to that land. His friend Raju also encourages him telling there are big trees bearing big rice cakes at Kashi and Gour must not give up the chance to go with his grandmother. Sitting in the classroom Gour see his grandmother passes by. He finds excuse to leave the classroom and starts going after her grandmother. He catches the same train where her grandmother gets on. Finally they meet at a lonely railway station and takes shelter at a hermitage for the night as no more train to halt until next morning. Next morning his grandmother is found dead, but her unexpected death doesn't touch his mind and he runs away from there to catch train which he believes will take away him to his dreamland. The film ends with a kirtan being sung by different groups from different places.

Cast

• Daminee Benny Basu
• Kaushik Roy
• Shibani Maity
• Harshil Das
• Debangana Gon
• Riya Das

External links

• Doodhpither Gachh at IMDb
• https://epaper.telegraphindia.com//printtextviews.php?id=345259&boxid=1330399&type=img Telegraph Review. 6 November 2020.
• https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/entertainment/film-review/bengali-movie-doodhpither-gachh-review/moviereview/78968107.cms Review
• https://epaper.sangbadpratidin.in/epaper/m/474397/5f9b6ab088270 Review