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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Maacher Jhol<br />
| image = Maacher Jhol poster.jpg<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| native_name =<br />
| director = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]<br />
| producer = [[Sony Pictures Networks]]<br> Joy B Ganguly<br />
| writer = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]<br />
| screenplay = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]<br />
| story = [[Pratim D. Gupta]]<br />
| based_on = <!-- {{based on |[title of the original work] |[writer of the original work]}} --><br />
| starring = [[Ritwick Chakraborty]]<br />[[Paoli Dam]]<br />[[Mamata Shankar]]<br />[[Arjun Chakrabarty]]<br />[[Mithu Chakrabarty]] <br />
| narrator =<br />
| music = [[Anupam Roy]]<br>Avijit Kundu<br />
| cinematography = Subhankar Bhar<br />
| editing = Subhajit Singha<br />
| studio = [[Sony Pictures Networks]]<br> Mojo Productions<br />
| distributor = [[Sony Pictures Releasing International]]<br />
| released = {{film date|2017|08|18|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 108 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross = <!-- Please use condensed and rounded values, e.g. "£11.6 million" not "£11,586,221" --><br />
}}<br />
'''''Maacher Jhol''''' ('Fish Broth') is an Indian language [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language [[Culinary arts|culinary]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] produced by Sony Pictures Networks and Mojo Productions directed by [[Pratim D. Gupta]], starring [[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 to attend to his ailing mother.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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 years, and he must come to terms with his past.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Ritwick Chakraborty]] as Dev D aka Devdatto<br />
* [[Mamata Shankar]] as Maa<br />
* [[Paoli Dam]] as Sreela<br />
* [[Arjun Chakrabarty]] as Palash<br />
* Kaya Blocksage<br />
* [[Sauraseni Maitra]]<br />
* Sumanta Mukherjee<br />
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==Production==<br />
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=== Development ===<br />
[[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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815234708/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170401/jsp/t2/story_143788.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 August 2017|accessdate=1 April 2017|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]|date=1 April 2017}}</ref><br />
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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.<br />
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=== Casting ===<br />
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/><br />
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=== Filming ===<br />
Shooting for the film started from March 2017.<ref name=telegraph/><br />
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=== Music ===<br />
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]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|6903200|Maacher Jhol}}<br />
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[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:2017 Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:2017 films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about fish]]<br />
[[Category:Cooking films]]<br />
[[Category:Sony Pictures films]]<br />
[[Category:Sony Pictures Networks India films]]<br />
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