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| name = Char Adhyay<br />
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| director = [[Kumar Shahani]]<br />
| producer = [[National Film Development Corporation of India]] (NFDC)<br />[[Doordarshan]]<br />
| writer = Kumar Shahani<br>Udayan Vajpeyi <small>(dialogue)</small><br />
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| based_on = {{based on|''Char Adhyay'' (1934)|[[Rabindranath Tagore]]}}<br />
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| music =[[Vanraj Bhatia]]<br />
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]<br />
| editing = Sujata Narula<br />
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| released = {{Film date|1997}}<br />
| runtime = 110 min<br />
| country = India<br />
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}}'''''Char Adhyay''''' (English: Four Chapters) 1997 Indian Hindi language [[drama film]] written and directed by [[Kumar Shahani]]. It is based on [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s last novel by the same name, written in 1934.<ref name="Tagore2011">{{cite book|author=Rabindranath Tagore|title=The Essential Tagore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ih-TOTwfogC&pg=PT692|year=2011|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-05790-6|page=656}}</ref><br />
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The film is set in the late [[Bengali Renaissance]] of the 1930s and 1940s, and a group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries involved with the [[Indian independence movement]]. It deals with the impact of political issues on personal lives and questions blind nationalism and blind adherence to a leader and delves into the ugly face of idealism.<ref name="Tagore2011"/><ref name=apt>{{cite web | title = Kumar Shahani | publisher = The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | url = http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/asiapacifictriennial5/cinema/filmmakers/kumar_shahani | accessdate = 2014-05-03 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140510084006/http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/asiapacifictriennial5/cinema/filmmakers/kumar_shahani | archivedate = 10 May 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=today>{{cite web| title = Char Adhyay: Tagore novel adaptation is set to create ripples |publisher=India Today <br />
| url = https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/story/19970714-char-adhyay-tagore-novel-adaptation-is-set-to-create-ripples-830343-1997-07-13<br />
|author= Madhu Jain|date=14 July 1997| access-date = 2014-05-04}}</ref><br />
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Most of the cast included non-actors, Nandini Ghosal was an Odissi dancer a disciple of Guru [[Kelucharan Mahapatra]], Kaushik Gopal was a psychoanalyst, while Sumanto Chattopadhyay worked in advertising and acted in theatre.<ref name=today/><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* Sumanto Chattopadhyay as Atindra<br />
* [[Nandini Ghosal]] as Ela<br />
* Kaushik Gopal as Indranath<br />
* [[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]] <br />
* Shruti Yusufi<br />
* [[Rajat Kapoor]]<br />
* Ramchandra Parihar<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|1934208}}<br />
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