Winners of Jio Filmfare Awards (East) for 2016

Filmfare Awards are back to reward the best of Bengali movies for 2016.
#SahebBibiGolaam has taken lead with maximum number of six awards including Best Leading Actor(Female) and Best Supporting Actor (Male). 
It has been followed by #Cinemawala and #Praktan both have have won five awards each. #Cinemawala have won the big awards like Best Film and Best Director. #Praktan has mainly dominated the musical categories, also both the actresses have won awards for their performances.

Here is the full list of  Winners of Jio Filmfare Awards (East) for 2016

Best Film - Cinemawala

Best Director - Kaushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - 

Prosenjit Chatterjee (Shankachil)

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) - 

Swastika Mukherjee (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) -

Anirban Bhattacharya (Eagoler Chokh)  &

Ritwick Chakraborty (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) - 

Aparajita Auddy (Praktan)

Critic’s Choice Awards

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Best Film - Cholai

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - 

Paran Bandopadhyay (Cinemawala)

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) - 

Rituparna Sengupta (Praktan)

Music Awards

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Best Music Album - 

Anupam Roy and Anindya Chatterjee (Praktan)

Best Lyrics - Anupam Roy - 

Tumi jaake bhalobasho (Praktan)

Best Playback Singer (Male) - 

Nachiketa Chakraborty - Ek purono mosjide (Zulfiqar)

Best Playback Singer (Female)- 

Iman Chakraborty - Tumi jaake bhalobasho (Praktan)

Technical Awards

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Best Editing - Sanjeeb Datta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Sound Design - Anirban Sengupta (Shankhachil)

Best Production Design - Dhananjay Mondol (Cinemawala)

Best Background Score - Neil Adhikari (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Choreography - Baba Yadav - Selfie (Abhimaan)

Best Cinematography - Gairik Sarkar (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Original Story - Kaushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Best Screenplay - Pratim D Gupta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Dialogue - Subhomay Chatterjee (Cholai)

Debut Awards

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Best Debut Director – 

Arindam Bhattacharya (Antarleen)  &

Ayan Chakraborty (Shororipu)

Best Debut Actor – Yash Dashgupta (Gangster)

Lifetime Achievement Award – Supriya Devi

Nominations for the Jio Filmfare Awards (East)

The prestigious Filmfare Awards is back for second time to give awards for the excellence in Bengali cinema.It is going to happen on Feb 25th. After having voting for 23 days for Popular categories finally the nomination list is ready.

There are total 18 categories in this list including awards for Music and Technical categories also along with the main Popular categories. 

#SahebBibiGolaam is leading with 15 nominations followed by #Cinemawala with 13 , #Praktan with 11 and #EaglerChokh with 10 nominations.

Surprisingly some big movies like #Zulfiqar,#ByomkeshPawrbo and #ByomkeshOChiriyakhana has been nominated only 7 ,4  and 2 categories respectively.On the other hand,there are some really small and almost overlooked movies which have made it big at the nominations like #Cholai which have 5 nominations, #Sharoripu and #Antarleen have 4 nominations each.

Here is the full detail of the nomination list:

Best Film

Cinemawala

Double Feluda

Eagoler Chokh

Praktan

Shaheb Bibi Golaam

Shankhachil

Best Director

Arindam Sil (Eagoler Chokh)

Goutam Ghose (Shankhachil)

Kaushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Pratim D Gupta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Sandip Ray (Double Feluda)

Shiboprosad Mukherjee-Nandita Roy (Praktan)

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)

Abir Chatterjee (Byomkesh Pawrbo)

Chiranjeet Chakraborty (Shororipu)

Dev (Zulfiqar)

Jisshu Sengupta (Byomkesh O Chiriakhana)

Paran Bandopadhyay (Cinemawala)

Prosenjit Chatterjee (Shankachil)

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)

Gargi Roy Choudhary  (Benche Thakar Gaan)

Jaya Ahsan (Eagoler Chokh)

Paoli Dam (Khawto)

Raima Sen (Monchora)

Rituparna Sengupta (Praktan)

Swastika Mukherjee (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)

Anirban Bhattacharya (Eagoler Chokh)

Arun Guha Thakurta (Cinemawala)

Jisshu Sengupta (Zulfiqar)

Koushik Sen (Zulfiqar)

Parambrata Chatterjee (Cinemawala)

Ritwick Chakraborty (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) 

Aparajita Auddy (Praktan)

Churni Ganguly (Bastu-Shaap)

Mamata Shankar (Antarleen)

Shajbati (Shankhachil)

Sudipta Chakroborty (Shororipu)

Best Music Album

Anupam Roy (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Anupam Roy (Zulfiqar)

Anupam Roy and Anindya Chatterjee (Praktan)

Indraadip Dasgupta (Bastu-Shaap)

Jeet Ganguly (Love Express)

Best Lyrics

Anupam Roy - Ek purono mosjide (Zulfiqar)

Anupam Roy - Mon bhalo nei (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Anupam Roy - Tumi jaake bhalobasho (Praktan)

Prosen - Thik emon ebhabhe (Gangster)

Prosen - Tomake chai (Gangster)

Srijaato - Tomake chuye dilam (Bastu-Shaap)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Anupam Roy - Aami aajkal bhalo aachi (Zulfiqar)

Anupam Roy - Mon bhalo nei (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Arijit Singh - Tomake chuye dilam (Bastu-Shaap)

Nachiketa Chakraborty - Ek purono mosjide (Zulfiqar)

Surojit Chatterjee - Bhromor (Praktan)

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Anwesha - Dhoya tulsi pata (Chocolate)

Imon Chakraborty - Tumi jaake bhalobasho (Praktan)

Shreya Ghoshal - Kolkata (Praktan)

Shreya Ghoshal - Tomake chuye dilam (Bastu-Shaap)

Shreya Ghoshal - Tomar ki naam (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Editing

Rabiranjan Maitra (Khawto)

Sanjeeb Datta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Subhajit Singha (Cinemawala)

Subrata Ray (Double Feluda)

Sujay Dutta Ray (Antarleen)

Sujay Dutta Ray (Eagoler Chokh)

Best Sound Design

Anindit Roy, Adeep Singh Manki (Eagoler Chokh)

Anindit Roy, Adeep Singh Manki (Byomkesh Pawrbo)

Anirban Sengupta (Bastu-Shaap)

Anirban Sengupta (Cinemawala)

Anirban Sengupta (Shankhachil)

Anup Mukherjee (Double Feluda)

Best Production Design

Arindam Sil, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Soumik Haldar, Sabarni Das (Byomkesh Pawrbo)

Dhananjay Mondol (Cinemawala)

Dhanonjay Mondal (Khawto)

Indranil Ghosh and Uttam Guha (Shankhachil)

Saswati Karmakar (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Unmaat (Cholai)

Best Background Score

Bickram Ghosh (Eagoler Chokh)

Binit Ranjan Moitra (Praktan)

Goutam Ghose (Shankhachil)

Indradip Dasgupta (Cinemawala)

Neel Dutt (Byomkesh O Chiriakhana)

Neil Adhikari (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Choreography

Adil Shaikh - Item bomb (Kelor Kirti)

Arvind Thakur - Dhitang dhitang (Love Express)

Baba Yadav - Dhat teri ki (Baadshah: The Don)

Baba Yadav - Selfie (Abhimaan)

Baba Yadav - Shona (Hariprada Bandwala)

Jayesh Pradhan - Uth chori biye (Shikari)

Best Cinematography

Gairik Sarkar (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Gopi Bhagat (Cholai)

Ishaan Ghosh (Shankhachil)

Soumik Haldar (Eagoler Chokh)

Soumik Haldar (Khawto)

Soumik Halder (Cinemawala)

Best Original Story

Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy (Benche Thakar Gaan)

Arindam Bhattacharya (Antarleen)

Arun Ray (Cholai)

Ayan Chakraborti (Shororipu)

Kaushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Pratim D Gupta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Screenplay

Arindam Bhattacharya (Antarleen)

Arindam Sil & Padnamabha Dasgupta (Eagoler Chokh)

Arun Ray (Cholai)

Ayan Chakraborti (Shororipu)

Kaushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Pratim D Gupta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Best Dialogue

Arindam Sil and Padmanabha Dasgupta (Eagoler Chokh)

Koushik Ganguly (Cinemawala)

Padmanabha Dasgupta, Arindam Sil (Byomkesh Pawrbo)

Pratim D Gupta (Shaheb Bibi Golaam)

Shiboprosad Mukherjee (Praktan)

Subhomay Chatterjee (Cholai)

Review of Bibaho Diaries

In Bengali movies normally comedies do not work well with audiences and the main reason is most of the Bengali comedies are frame to frame remakes of popular Bollywood comedies so there is no refreshment at all but fortunately #BibahoDiaries is not one such boring comedy rather it is a film which keeps you entertaining from beginning to end. When we want to enjoy a comedy the two main factors are funny dialogues and superb comic timing of the actors and the good news is #BibahoDiaries scores good marks in both of these two departments.

Story wise it has nothing new to offer it is the same age old story of a couple who have a love marriage but after marriage they get the reality check, they come to know how the romantic equations keep changing between two lovers when they become husband and wife as the responsibilities of a married life comes in between. In spite of being an over exposed subject the film never appears to be boring because of the refreshing screenplay (especially in the first half), the funny dialogues and of course wonderful performances by the lead actors.

From the opening credit you will get a glimpse of the refreshing narrative where few random couples are quizzed about their opinion on marriage. The opening credit itself sets the comic mood. The story is about, pre and post married love story of Pratyay (Ritwick Chakraborty) and Royona (Sohini Sarkar). Pratyay is a struggling theatre actor and director who don’t want to do any job to pursue his career in theatre and Royona is a professional photographer. They both belongs from different family background and social status but still they start liking each other after some casual meetings and finally they decides to get married with their parent’s half hearted consent. The second half is about the side effects of a married life, some regular conflicts between the newly married couple about each other’s habits and also some intervention from the in laws.

The screenplay written by Mainak Bhaumik and Saurav Palodhi is enjoyable till the end, though the pace drops for in the second half and the pre-climax confrontation between Prtyay and Royona looks little hurried, but we can overlook that for the humorous lines which keep coming at regular intervals. All credit goes to dialogues writer Saurav Palodhi, the funny one liners are well written, also there are some smartly written lines against current political situation of the state.

As a director Mainak Bhaumik has tried to attempt a comedy for the first time and he has done full justice with that. Though he has treated the subject in a similar way like his earlier films.

Apart from the dialogues which other factor has worked most in favor of this film is the

brilliant performance by the lead pair. Ritwick Chakraborty is absolutely brilliant like always. It is a welcome change to see him doing comedy after a long time and he has done a superb job. He has also acted as the narrator in the film where he is telling his own love story and he has done exceptionally well in those scenes. Sohini Sarkar has portrayed her character wonderfully, though her character is bit one sided and have lesser scope compared to her male counterpart but she has managed her own to stand out. In most of her earlier films we have seen her in traditional look of a Bengali housewife, but here she has played a modern urban character of a young independent working woman and she looks very nice in her urban attire. Together Ritwick and Sohini have showed a sparkling chemistry which has helped them looking more convincing as a couple on the screen.

Among the others Biswanath Basu and Kamalika Bannerjee has done good job as Prtyay’s friend and Royona’s friendly elder sister. Lily Chakraborty is impressive in a small role. Bishwajit Chakraborty, Mithu Chakraborty, Dulal Lahiri and Alaknanda Roy are good as the parents of the bride and groom.

The music composed by Savvy is good and all the songs have been used quite well in the movie. The wedding song “Evabei Suru Hok”, wonderfully sung by Lognojita, is the best one and it will be with you for a long time.

Overall #BibahoDiaries is a complete entertainer with superb funny dialogues and wonderful comic performance by the lead pair. No matter you are married or not you will definitely enjoy reading the pages of this diary.