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{{Infobox film
| name = Maacher Jhol
| image = Maacher Jhol poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Film Poster
| native_name =
| director = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]
| producer = Sony Pictures Networks & Joy Ganguly
| writer = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]
| screenplay = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]
| story = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]
| based_on = 
| starring = [[Ritwick Chakraborty]] [[Paoli Dam]] [[Mamata Shankar]] [[Arjun Chakrabarty]] [[Mithu Chakrabarty]]
| narrator =
| music = [[Anupam Roy]] [[Avijit Kundu]]
| cinematography = Subhankar Bhar
| editing =
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|2017|08|18|df=yes}}
| runtime = 108 min
| country = [[India]]
| language = Bengali
| budget =
| gross = 
}}

'''''Maacher Jhol''''' is an Indian [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] directed by [[Pratim D. Gupta]] and stars [[Ritwick Chakraborty]], [[Paoli Dam]] and [[Mamata Shankar]] in the lead roles. It is the first Bengali food film that revolves around a Paris-based chef who comes back to Kolkata after 13 years. Gautam Mitra played the role of a doctor.

==Plot==
Dev D (Devdatto) is a renowned chef who quit his job as an engineer in [[Kolkata]] and moved to France train at [[Le Cordon Bleu]] in Paris. In doing so, he left behind his wife Sreela and his parents. When his mother falls ill, he returns to Kolkata after 13, he must come to terms with his past.

== Cast ==
* [[Ritwick Chakraborty]] as Dev D aka Devdatto
* [[Mamata Shankar]] as Maa
* [[Paoli Dam]] as Sreela
* [[Arjun Chakrabarty]] as Palash
* Kaya Blocksage
* [[Sauraseni Maitra]]
* Sumanta Mukherjee

==Production==

=== Development ===
[[Pratim D. Gupta]] revealed that the idea of the film came during his trip to Italy where he was surprised to find local restaurants serving the recipes of mothers and grandmothers.<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news|last1=Chatterjee|first1=Arindam|title=Pratim D. Gupta rustles up a slice of Bangaliana in his third film Maacher Jhol|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170401/jsp/t2/story_143788.jsp|accessdate=1 April 2017|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]|date=1 April 2017}}</ref>

He also said that it was his eagerness to work with [[Ritwick Chakraborty]] again after ''[[Shaheb Bibi Golaam]]'' resulted in conceiving a character for him - Chef Dev D.

=== Casting ===
While Pratim and Ritwick have worked together in ''Shaheb Bibi Golaam'', the film marks the first collaboration between the director and [[Paoli Dam]]. Mamata Shankar, known to be choosy about her roles, agreed to do the film immediately after reading the script.<ref name=telegraph/>

=== Filming ===
Shooting for the film started from March 2017.<ref name=telegraph/>

=== Music ===
The music for ''Maacher Jhol'' is composed by [[Anupam Roy]] and the lyrics have been penned by Anupam himself. One of the songs has been written by Rabindranath Tagore with a French section written and sung by Anupam. The music rights have been acquired by [[Zee Music Company|Zee Music]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|6903200|Maacher Jhol}}

[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2010s Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:2017 films]]
[[Category:Films about fish]]

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