Ekti Nadir Galpo is a 2008 Bengali-language

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 Indian

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 feature film

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 directed

Film director

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 by Samir Chanda

Samir Chanda

Samir Chanda was an Indian art director and production designer across Indian cinema, including Hindi, Bengali and Tamil, most known for his work in films like Dil Se , Guru , Omkara , Rang De Basanti , and Raavan .He also directed a Bengali film, Ek Nadir Galpo starring Mithun...

, starring Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....

, Shweta Prasad

Shweta Prasad

Shwetha Basu Prasad is an Indian film actress. She started her career as a child actress in Hindi films and television series and went on to play lead roles in Telugu cinema. For her performance in the 2002 film Makdee, she won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.-Early life:Prasad was...

, Jisshu Sengupta, Anjan Srivastav

Anjan Srivastav

Anjan Srivatsav is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years...

, Nirmal Kumar and Montu Moha Patra. The film was Indian entries for the Asian, African and Latin American Competition segment of the 38th International Film Festival of India

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(IFFI), in Goa.

Plot

Ekti Nadir Galpo ( Tale of A River) has the story taken from adaptation of short stories of Sunil Gangopadhay. Although initially set to be release on cinema but it went film festival worldwide. The film yet to be release officially.

Summary

Ek Nadir Galpo shows the special relationship the father and daughter share. Anu consider Darakeshwar (Mithun ) as her hero and Anu (Swetha) is his pride, joy and life. Tragedy strikes as Anu drowns in Keleghai river. The bond between Darakeshwar and Anu trascends time and even after Anu's death. Now Darakeshwar's only goal is to rename the river Keleghai as Anjana in memory of his loving daughter who lost her life in the same river. The film shows whether Darakeshwar is right in wanting to rename the river and can the names of rivers be changed very easily. The film also shows, who would help Darakeshwar in his goal and would he manage to rename the river.