Bioscopewala

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Bioscopewala
Directed byDeb Medhekar
Screenplay byDeb Medhekar
Radhika Anand
Story bySunil Doshi
Deb Medhekar
Based onKabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
Produced bySunil Doshi
Starring
CinematographyRafey Mehmood
Edited byDipika Kalra
Music by
Fox Star Studios
Release dates
Running time
91 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Bioscopewala (transl. Man with a bioscope) is an Indian

Taliban regime and changed the profession of Rehmat, the central character, from a dry fruit seller to a man who goes around showing films to children through his bioscope.[2]

Plot

Bioscopewala is the story of Rehmat Khan, a man from Kabul, Afghanistan who used to show films to children through his Bioscope. Rehmat befriends a girl named Minnie who is of the same age as his own daughter and one day he disappears from her life. Many years later a grown-up Minnie, who is now a documentary film-maker living in France, learns about her father, who died in a plane crash while travelling to Afghanistan. As Minnie tries to figure out the reason why her father made that trip, she comes across Bioscopewala, the man who used to tell her stories when she was a child.[4]

Cast

Production

Development

In the year 2009, it was reported that French-Afghan filmmaker

M.K. Raina and Rajat Kapoor were also supposed to be a part of the film.[7][8][9] But the project got indefinitely delayed. In the year 2016, Sunil Doshi approached Ram Madhvani with the idea of adapting the story of Kabuliwala to the screen who in turn directed him towards his colleague Debashish Medhekar, who was an ad-filmmaker at Equinox. Debashish says that, "When Sunil said to do this film I felt it was everything that I wanted to do in my first feature – it had children, magic realism, nostalgia, travel, and says something about the world we live in and how people are suffering."[10]

In 2016, Deb Medhekar's Bioscopewala was selected to be a part of the Work-in-Progress lab at the 10th NFDC Film Bazaar (an annual event where filmmakers present a rough cut of their projects for review and feedback by a panel of international film experts) held in Goa during 20–24 November 2016.[11][12][13]

Casting

Director Deb Medhekar says that for the role of Minnie Basu he was not just looking for a good actress but also someone who resembles Meena Kumari, as a result of which he finalized Geetanjali Thapa for the role. Deb says, "I am a big Meena Kumari fan and I think no other actress can look as authentically beautiful and Bengali as Meena Kumari did in ‘Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam’. So when I was casting Mini in ‘Bioscopewala’ as an adult, I cast Geetanjali Thapa because she has an uncanny resemblance."[14]

Soundtrack

"Bioscopewala"
YouTube

There is only one song in the film, titled Bioscopewala. Sung by K Mohan this song was composed by Sandesh Shandilya while the lyrics were written by Gulzar.

Critical reception

Reza Noorani of

News18 gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 and said that, "In a rising atmosphere of cultural intolerance, hate and violence, director Deb Medhekar’s Bioscopewala promises hope and manages to convey the more heart-warming emotion of humankind."[22]

References

  1. ^ a b "Asian Feature - Bioscopewala - World Premiere". Tokyo International Film Festival.
  2. ^ a b "Danny Denzongpa is today's version of Rabindranath Tagore's Kabuliwala in Bioscopewala trailer". Hindustan Times.
  3. ^ "Bioscopewala Trailer - Danny Denzongpa - Geetanjali Thap". YouTube. 8 May 2018.
  4. News18
    . 29 October 2017.
  5. ^ "'I wrote my screenplay from Kabuliwala's point of view'". The Times of India. 12 August 2009.
  6. Screen Daily
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  7. ^ "The Kabuliwala is back!". Mumbai Mirror.
  8. ^ "The BIG Switch: BigB to play a small role in Kabuliwala". India Today. 23 February 2013.
  9. ^ "A New Kabuliwala". The Indian Express.
  10. ^ "Kabuliwala 2.0". Mail Today.
  11. Screen Daily
    .
  12. ^ "Film Bazaar 2016: Five debutants' works chosen for 'Work-In-progress' lab". Hindustan Times.
  13. ^ "Seven projects selected for Film Bazaar". The Times of India. 11 November 2016.
  14. ^ "Bioscopewala director cast Geetanjali Thapa as he wanted Meena Kumari look-alike for film". The Indian Express. 10 May 2018.
  15. ^ "Bioscopewala (Title Song) [From "Bioscopewala"]". iTunes.
  16. ^ "Bioscopewala Movie Review". The Times of India.
  17. ^ "Bioscopewala Movie Review : The well-crafted film is wonderfully served by a fine cast". NDTV.
  18. Rediff
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  19. News18
    . 26 May 2018.
  20. ^ "Bioscopewala movie review: The Danny Denzongpa film realises only some of its great potential". The Indian Express. 25 May 2018.
  21. ^ "Bioscopewala movie review: A sparkling Danny Denzongpa and the power of cinema". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  22. News18
    . 26 May 2018.

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