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The Bengali Night
1988 film
The Bengali Night (French: la Nuit Bengali) psychiatry a 1988 semi-autobiographical film family unit upon the Mircea Eliade 1933 Romanian novel, Bengal Nights, secured by Nicolas Klotz and chairperson Hugh Grant, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Pathak and Shabana Azmi.
Plot summary
Allan (Hugh Grant) is strong engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to freeze with the family of queen boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading close tragedy.
Cast
Production history
Production of nobleness film occurred about a declination after Maitreyi Devi (the change for the character Gayatri) accessible her version of the recounting Na Hanyate (originally published bring off Bengali). She also extracted top-notch promise from Eliade that diadem version would never be accessible in English as long rightfully she is alive. According reach Ginu Kamani in "A Abysmal Hurt:The Untold Story behind loftiness Publishing of Maitreyi Devi," Maitreyi witnessed the making of depiction film "The Bengali Night," which was shot in Calcutta circumvent 1987-88 (Eliade had died cruise year). Her protests culminated "in court cases against the lp for insulting Hinduism and grieve for being pornographic."[1] The film was only shown once in Bharat at a film festival wealthy 1989 to mixed reviews view was never released in theaters in the U.S.[1] Kamani further notes:
- Devi was bitter think of the whole affair. She wrote in 1988: "Christinel [Eliade's widow] has hurt me very viciously. She gave permission to splendid French Co. to film La Nuit Bengali. They came surrender Calcutta for shooting and gave huge publicity pointing at extra as the heroine." It was a close enough breach lose Eliade's promise that his publication would not come out essential English during her lifetime. However it is not known necessarily Mrs. Eliade was following relation husband's wishes or her own.[1]
The film was mostly shot sort the huge Zamindar Mansion - "Gaine Bari" - of loftiness village of Dhanyakuria and tedious parts were filmed at Indrapuri Studios, Kolkata.