A bid for Bengal / Ajantrik Pictures presents ; a film by Dwaipayan Banerjee & Kasturi Basu.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Banerjee, Dwaipayan, film director, screenwriter.

Basu, Kasturi, film director, film producer, film producer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Bengali

English

Hindi

Subjects (All):

West Bengal (India)--Politics and government--21st century.

West Bengal (India).

Hindutva--India--West Bengal.

Hindutva.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (70 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

stamping.

Place of Publication:

[Kolkata, India?] : [Ajantrik Pictures?], 2021

Language Note:

Bangla, English and Hindi with English subtitles.

System Details:

Disc characteristics: DVD+R; one disc is DVD, one is MP4.

digital

optical

stereo

PAL

video file

DVD video MP4

all regions

Summary:

"How did Hindu nationalist politics find a foothold in West Bengal after three decades of Communist Party rule? Using fresh and archival footage with personal family history, 'A bid for Bengal' lays bare historical fault lines and visits the workings of frontal organizations in the Hindu nationalist network behind the recent political shift in West Bengal, in between witnessing two consecutive election trails from 2019 to 2021. As resistance takes shape, one arrives at the immediate present marred with anxiety, yeet not bereft of hope"--Container.

Credits:

Direction and research, Dwaipayan Banerjee and Kasturi Basu ; writing, Dwaipayan Banerjee ; editing, Rituparna Saha ; cinematography, Kasturi Basu, Kenneth Cyrus, Ritam Sarkar, Saikat Mallick ; producres, Kasturi Basi, Dwaipayan Banerjee (Ajantrik Pictures).

Notes:

Originally produced in India as a motion picture in 2021.

Wide screen.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

1344447259