Teenkahon (Three Obsessions) is a 2014 Psychological mystery-thriller Bengali film directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji and produced by Monalisa Mukherji under the banner of Little Lamb Films.
Cast Suman Mukhopadhyay as Shailen (Senior) Kharaj Mukherjee as Radhanath Ratan Sarkhel as Tarapada Manasi Sinha as Radhanath's wife Bhadra Basu as Pishima Biswanath Basu as Akshay Monu Mukhopadhyay as Gurumoshai Ananya Sen as Nayantara Barshan Seal as Shailen (Junior) Parvathy Baul as Baul Joy Sengupta as Sukomol Basu Roy Sabyasachi Chakraborty as Gyanesh Mitra Phalguni Chatterjee as Mejo Mama Rituparna Sengupta as Anamika Guha Ashish Vidyarthi as Joydeb Guha Dhritiman Chatterjee as Dr Banerjee Sumanta Mukherjee as Ronojoy Dutta Kaushik Mukherjee as Deepak Addhya Sarada Banerjee as Noni Panchanan Banerjee as Chowdhury Madhuparna Kumar as Ex-speaker's ex-wife Pratirup Ghosh as Ayush (Junior)
Themes Teenkahon is a triptych film. The Gulf Today described it as "a rare international art house film from Bengal which, as a piece of social document, tries to capture the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the increasing pollution of the spoken language and the changing social fabric of Bengal through three stories."
Production
Development Teenkahon is the first film of Little Lamb Films, the production house founded by Bauddhayan Mukherji.
Filming Filming locations include places in West Bengal such as Kolkata and Bolpur.
Release
Teenkahon was the only Asian film which was showcased in the prestigious DC Independent Film Festival in 2015. Director Bauddhayan Mukherji was also one of the few selected filmmakers who took part in the summit hosted by US Congressional Entertainment Industries Caucus, the topic of which was the use of drones in films and policy decisions on the usage guidelines. The seminar was presided over by American politician Brad Sherman.
Teenkahon is slated for a theatrical release on 11 September 2015 in India.
Festival screenings Teenkahon was screened at the following film festivals in 2015.
Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif, Paris, France DC Independent Film Festival, Washington, D.C. Indian Panorama, International Film Festival of India, Goa, India MAMI, Mumbai Film Festival, Mumbai, India Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Soho International Film Festival, New York, USA Bridge Film Fest, Mitrovica, Kosovo Bengali Film Festival, Dubai ImagineIndia International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain Pune International Film Festival, Pune, India Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Zimbabwe International Film Festival, Harare, Zimbabwe Seattle South Asian Film Festival, Seattle, USA Chennai International Film Festival, Chennai, India Cannes Underground Film Festival, North Carolina International South Asian Film Festival, North Carolina, USA Habitat Film Festival, New Delhi, India Madrid International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival, Hyderabad, India Berlin Underground Film Festival Navi Mumbai International Film Festival, Navi Mumbai, India National Film Festival, Kozhikode, India
Music
Playback singer Arnab Chakraborty was chosen to compose the film score for Teenkahon. The film will be his debut as a music composer. Singer Shreya Ghoshal was reported to record a song for the film.
Accolades Teenkahon went on to receive multiple awards in various international film festivals, being the only Bengali film in consideration in most cases. It won a Special Mention Award from six student jury members in Paris. Director Bauddhayan Mukherji was bestowed with the Aravindan Puraskaram for Best Debutant Director by Beena Paul, receiving a cash prize of , a certificate and a statuette.
Award Category Recipients and nominees Result Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif Special Mention of the Student Jury for Best Narrative Feature Bauddhayan Mukherji rowspan="2" Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Aravindan Puraskaram
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