Shankar Mudi

2019 Indian Bengali film

15 March 2019 (2019-03-15)

Running time

135 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageBengali

Shankar Mudi is a Bengali Political drama film directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay and produced by Kaustuv Ray.^[2] It was released on 15 March 2019 under the banner of RP Techvision India Private Limited. The Bengali actor-director Shri Kaushik Ganguly plays the title role.^[3]

Plot

This is a story of a small suburban locality of the Metro City Kolkata named Goragacha. The neighbourhood or in Bengali Para consists of a small grocery shop, run by its owner Shankar, a barber, a tea stall, a ladies' tailor, a gents' tailor and a local auto rickshaw driver. Amongst locals, there are a political leader or dada, a family whose only young youth was actively engaged in politics and subsequently died in a police encounter, a teacher, a live-in frustrated son-in-law and a Bahurupi. The story started with affectionate bondage between people in that big joint family like para, which slowly faced the fear of becoming extinct due to their financial stringency. As a part of advanced civilized modernisation which was an obvious effect of globalisation, a shopping mall emerged in their locality. Local residents are slowly accustomed to the central air conditioned comfort, wide range of products, promotional techniques, acceptance of digital payments etc. of the local shopping mall which puts a strong and uneven challenge to the survival of local small scale business owners who were losing their livelihood very fast. Shankar tried to cope-up with "mall effects" like keeping packet food grains, home delivery, introducing utility bill payments, even installing stand blower fan for his customers who in his version are his God. But all his and the entire neighbourhood's struggle gone in vain. Some leave, someone compromised their chastity, someone committed suicide after being defeated in this life struggle for survival. The plot clearly pinpoints the obvious negative impact of globalisation without having constructive governmental planning for saving medium or small-scale businesses.^[4]

Cast

Kaushik Ganguly as Shankar Mudi
Jisshu Sengupta as Live-in Son-in-Law
Anjan Dutta as School Teacher
Shantilal Mukherjee as Local Political Leader
Saswata Chatterjee as Auto Rikshaw Driver
Rudranil Ghosh as Bahurupi
Kanchan Mullick as Barbar
Sreela Majumdar as Wife of Shankar Mudi
Biswanath Basu as Gents' Tailor Owner
Sampurna Lahiri
Oindrila Saha
Ankita Chakraborty as Ladies' Tailor owner
Malay Ghosh as Building Contractor of the Mall

References

^ "Kabir Suman on the music of Shankar Mudi". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Shankar Mudi is a socio-political film is about globalization: Aniket Chattopadhay". Times of India. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Shankar Mudi". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- "মুভি রিভিউ: ভেঙে যাওয়া সময়ের গল্প শোনায় 'শঙ্কর মুদি'" (in Bengali). Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Shankar Mudi movie review". First Post. Retrieved 18 March 2019.