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Chokher Bali (lit. sand in the eye, fig. constant irritant) is a 2003 Indian Bengali language drama film based on the 1903 novel Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore. It was directed by Rituparno Ghosh in 2003 and stars Aishwarya Rai as Binodini and Raima Sen as Ashalata. Ashalata and Binodini refer to each other as Chokher Bali.
Chokher Bali has been adapted a number of times in film, television and theatre. A stage adaptation was first performed in 1904, [2] and the movie Chokher Bali directed by Satu Sen was released in 1938, [5] which Tagore saw and he expressed his satisfaction with the performance in the film. [6]
It was a major success, reaching No. 1 in both the US and UK. In the US, the album stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for seven months, the fourth-longest run ever. [23] The album remained in the top five of the UK Albums Chart for 27 consecutive weeks before reaching No. 1 in November 1958. It stayed at the top for a record-breaking 115 ...
[1] [9] The New York premiere of the film took place at the Astor Theatre on January 29, 1953. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was very enthusiastic in his review of January 30, 1953: "it is apparent that this veteran and camera-scarred team is the neatest, smoothest combo of comics now working the fun side of the screen.
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Debutant director Arjun Bali previously worked on advertisements before venturing into commercial cinema. [5] Randeep Hooda , who had previously worked in action films such as D (2005) and Risk (2007), thought of experimenting with a romantic film hoping that it might bring him the much elusive success in the Bollywood film industry. [ 6 ]
The film portrays surfers living in spiritual harmony with nature, making their own boards (and homes) as they travelled in search of the perfect wave across Australia's north-east coast, Bali and Hawaii. The movie is regarded as one of the finest of its genre and noted as recording the first surfers to ride the waves at Uluwatu on the very ...