Nobel Chor

Nobel Chor[1][2] (Bengali: নোবেল চোর) (transl. Nobel Thief) is a 2012 Bengali-language Indian film directed by Suman Ghosh, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly and Saswata Chatterjee. The film was officially selected for the BFI London Film Festival.[3]

Nobel Chor
Promotional poster of Nobel Chor
Directed bySuman Ghosh
Written bySuman Ghosh
Produced byAshwani Sharma
StarringMithun Chakraborty
Soumitra Chatterjee
Roopa Ganguly
Saswata Chatterjee
Sankar Debnath
Sudipta Chakraborty
Arindam Sil
Harsh Chhaya
CinematographyBarun Mukherjee
Music byBickram Ghosh
Release date
  • 20 February 2012 (2012-02-20)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Plot

The first Asian Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, is still revered as an icon in India. On 24 March 2004, his Nobel medal was stolen from Shantiniketan in Bengal, where it was housed in his residence turned museum. Subsequently, a nationwide furor started and a massive search operation was put in place to find the guilty. Ultimately the medal was not found and the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) dropped the case in 2010. With this in the backdrop "Nobel Chor" (The Nobel Thief) is a fictional account of a poor farmer, Bhanu, who circumstantially gets involved in the theft. He decides to embark on a journey to the City of Joy – Kolkata – to return or sell the prize with a view to improve his own quality of life as well as that of his impoverished village.

He becomes the hope of the entire village. On arrival in the city, Bhanu encounters myriad experiences with crooks, strange memorabilia collectors, entrepreneurs who want to exploit the poor man who just has a simple of dream of being able to give his son a better future and uplift the state of his impoverished village. Nobel Chor is the story of this journey through which the film explores contemporary India at its fullest – the encroachment of globalization, the rural-urban divide and the state of India's villages. More importantly it is a trenchant exploration of the relevance of Tagore's philosophy in modern India.

Cast

References
  1. "Mithunda in Suman's 'Nobel Chor'". The Times of India. 10 November 2010. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  2. "The Tagore Effect in Suman Ghosh's NOBEL CHOR". washingtonbanglaradio.com. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  3. "'Nobel Chor' has been invited at the 16th BIFF". The Times of India. 17 July 2010. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
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