Tolly Lights

Tolly Lights (Bengali: টলি লাইট "Tolly Lights") is a 2008 Bengali-language Indian film directed by Arjun Chakraborty and starring Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyadarshini Chatterjee and Arjun Chakraborty. It is based on the novel Rangeen Prithibi by Suchitra Bhattacharya.[1][2] Hindi film actor Sunny Deol played an important role in the film.[3]

Tolly Lights
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Film poster
Directed byArjun Chakraborty
Produced byS.D.Ahuja
Written bySuchitra Bhattacharya
Starring
Music byTejendra Majumdar
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Edited bySubrata Roy
Release date
29 February 2008
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

PremiseEdit

Sreelekha plays the role of a home-maker who falls into the glamour world of films by chance

CastEdit

Special AppearanceEdit

CrewEdit

  • Lyrics - Shubho Dasgupta, Sri Barun
  • Art Director - Tanmoy Chakraborty
  • Script Writer - Dipanwita Ghosh Mukhopadhyay
  • Playback Singers - JojoDebojit, Preeta Bannerjee, Ustad Rashid Khan
  • Choreography - Kailash Sharma

ControversyEdit

In the 2020 controversial vlog Let's Expose It Face It, Sreelekha Mitra said that Rituparna Sengupta wanted to play the lead in the film. She made a phone call to Arjun Chakraborty and requested him to cast herself replacing Sreelekha Mitra.[4] Sreelekha Mitra claimed that Sengupta went on persisting that she would work at a lower remuneration if Chakraborty cast her.

ReferencesEdit

  1. Kushali Nag (13 February 2008). "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Entertainment | S for sizzler". Telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  2. "Tolly tally - Tollylights". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 12 March 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. Nag, Kushali (28 February 2008). "Dreams are all we have". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. "'প্রসেনজিতের সঙ্গে তখন ঋতুর প্রেম, তাই নায়িকার চরিত্র পাইনি', নেপোটিজম নিয়ে বোমা ফাটালেন শ্রীলেখা". Kolkata24x7. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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