Arshinagar is a Bengali musical romance drama film directed by Aparna Sen. The screenplay is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Direction
Aparna Sen's visual language is pure cinema.
Production
Sets so opulent they deserve their own billing.
Costume
Every outfit is a character decision.
Director
Aparna Sen
Dev
Ronojoy Mitra
Rittika Sen
Julekha Khan
Waheeda Rehman
Dadijaan
Roopa Ganguly
Tayyab's mother
Jisshu Sengupta
Tayyab
Kaushik Sen
Sabir Khan
Aparajita Adhya
Najma Khan
Shankar Chakraborty
Biswanath Mitra
Jaya Seal Ghosh
Madhu Mitra
Paran Banerjee
Mirza Saab
Parijat Chaudhuri
Anushka
Rahul Banerjee
Priyanka Sarkar
Anindya Banerjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sen relocated Verona to a fictionalized Bengal to explicitly critique Hindu-Muslim tensions — the 2015 release coincided with rising communal polarization in India.
Waheeda Rehman's casting as Dadijaan was deliberate: the iconic actress represents a lost era of secular Bollywood, making her presence a political statement itself.
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