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{{Infobox film
| name = Dutta Vs Dutta
| image = Dutta Vs Dutta movie poster.jpg
| alt = Dutta Vs Dutta film poster
| caption = Dutta Vs Dutta film poster
| director = [[Anjan Dutt]]
| producer = Purnendu Roy, Nilakhi Roy
| writer = [[Anjan Dutt]] [[Roopa Ganguly]]
| starring = [[Anjan Dutt]] Ronodeep Bose Arpita Chatterjee Roopa Ganguly
| music = '''Bhalobeshe Sokhi by:''' [[Rabindra Nath Tagore]] '''Composer (Original & Score):''' [[Neel Dutt]]
| cinematography =
| editing = [[Arghyakamal Mitra]]
| studio = Orion Production & Communications Pvt Ltd
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2012|11|23|Kolkata}}
| runtime = 124 minutes<ref name="Review Times of India">{{cite news|title=Dutta vs Dutta (review)|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/movie-review/17350341.cms|accessdate=1 December 2012|newspaper=The Times of India|date=25 November 2012}}</ref>
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Dutta Vs Dutta''''' is a 2012 Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film directed by [[Anjan Dutt]].<ref name="Dutta Vs Dutta: Anjan Dutta's New Venture">{{cite news|title=Dutta Vs Dutta: Anjan Dutta's New Venture|url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=756131|accessdate=16 August 2012|newspaper=Outlook India|date=18 March 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224125101/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=756131|archivedate=24 December 2013}}</ref> This is Anjan Dutt's semi-autobiographical film.<ref name="Anjan Dutta's new film focuses on his childhood">{{cite news|title=Anjan Dutta's new film focuses on his childhood|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-22/news-interviews/32788152_1_film-gorkhaland-agitation-childhood|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103073322/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-22/news-interviews/32788152_1_film-gorkhaland-agitation-childhood|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|accessdate=16 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=22 July 2012}}</ref> Most of the film has been shot in a house of [[Amherst Street (Kolkata)|Amherst Street]] in [[Kolkata]]. Anjan has described this house resonated feel of his old house of Beniapukur.<ref name="First look of Dutta vs Dutta">{{cite news|title=First look of Dutta vs Dutta|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120317/jsp/entertainment/story_15259741.jsp#.UCzrps95MxA|accessdate=16 August 2012|newspaper=Telegraph Calcutta|date=17 March 2012|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref><ref name="Dutta vs Dutta: National award winner Anjan Dutta's new venture">{{cite news|title=Dutta vs Dutta: National award winner Anjan Dutta's new venture|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dutta-vs-dutta-anjan-duttas-new-venture/240639-8-73.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325212953/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dutta-vs-dutta-anjan-duttas-new-venture/240639-8-73.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 March 2012|accessdate=3 October 2012|newspaper=IBN Live|date=19 March 2012}}</ref>

The film received mixed reviews. According to ''[[Anandabazar Patrika]]'' reviewer Sangeeta Bandopadhyay, this was Anjan Dutt's best film.<ref name="Anjan Dutt er sera chhobi" /> This opinion was shared by another Bengali newspaper ''[[Ei Samay]]''. However, ''The Times of India'' said that "the plot comes across as a total mishmash and therefore, loses punch".<ref name="Review Times of India" />

== Plot ==
Biren Dutta is a lawyer. He is unsuccessful in his career and does not have any client. His wife is an alcoholic.The couple have one son and one daughter. Biren Dutta has an extra-marital affair with his only client.<ref name="Dutta vs Dutta Bengali movie 2012 - Story, review" />
Biren's daughter China first falls in love with Ghenti Kaku, who is of her father's age, and later, with a guy who is involved with Naxalite movement. She runs away with the latter without the permission of her parents.<ref name="Review Times of India" /><ref name="Dutta vs Dutta Bengali movie 2012 - Story, review" />
Biren's teenaged son, Rono, comes back from boarding school since Biren can no longer afford pay school fees. Biren wants Rono to be a barrister but Rono wants to become an actor. Biren's father starts a music school in the house. China comes back with her Naxal husband and is accepted by her father. The couple later settle in the US. One of Rono's Naxalite friends takes shelter in the house to evade the police. Biren, unaware of this, has an altercation with the police when they come to the house searching for the boy. The police take him away to a police station, where he is beaten up, and drop him home 3 days later. Biren suffers a major setback and stops talking to anyone. In the end, Rono gets a role in a film by Mrinal Sen (Anjan Dutta's first film was also with Mrinal Sen). The film ends on that positive note.<ref name="Dutta vs Dutta Bengali movie 2012 - Story, review">{{cite web|title=Dutta vs Dutta Bengali movie 2012 - Story, review|url=http://www.getaheadindia.in/2012/11/dutta-vs-dutta-bengali-movie-2012-story.html|publisher=Get Ahead India|accessdate=1 December 2012}}</ref>

== Credit ==

=== Cast ===
* [[Anjan Dutt]] as Biren Dutta<ref name="Anjan Dutt’s Dutta Vs Dutta gets serious">{{cite news|title=Anjan Dutt's Dutta Vs Dutta gets serious|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120324/jsp/entertainment/story_15288022.jsp#.UCztTM95MxA|accessdate=16 August 2012|newspaper=Telegraph|date=24 March 2012|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref>
* Ronodeep Bose as Rono (Biren Dutta's teenage son)
* [[Arpita Chatterjee]] as China (Biren Dutta's daughter)
* [[Rita Koiral]] as Rita (Biren Dutta's wife)
* [[Kaushik Sen]] the Naxalite (China's husband)
* Shankar Chakraborty as Ghenti Kaku
* [[Deepankar De]] as grandfather
* [[Roopa Ganguly]] as Runu
*Somak Ghosh (RJ Somak) as Doi
* [[Parno Mittra]] as Nandita aka. Diana
* [[Srijit Mukherji]] as Tony Mukherjee

=== Crew ===
* Writer and Director: Anjan Dutt
* '''Production''':
** Producers: Purnendu Roy, Nilakhi Roy
** Co producer: Genesis Hospital
** Executive producer: Sanjay Pathak
* Music director: Neel Dutt
* Editor: Arghyakamal Mitra
* Production controller: Bipin Mukherjee
* Costume design: Chanda Dutt
* Graphic design: Arnab Dasgupta

== Filming ==
In this film director Anjan Dutt has tried to revive Calcutta of the 1970s, a period when the city evidenced emergence of rock music bands, the arrival of [[Hippie]] culture and also the [[Naxalite]] movement. In an interview he told–<ref name="Dutta Vs Dutta takes different angle on naxalites">{{cite news|title=Dutta Vs Dutta takes different angle on naxalites|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-08/news-interviews/34993171_1_naxalites-pub-culture-rock-bands|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103114140/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-08/news-interviews/34993171_1_naxalites-pub-culture-rock-bands|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|accessdate=12 November 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=8 November 2012}}</ref>
<blockquote>Unlike other films which have the shade of the Naxalite violence, Dutta Vs Dutta has taken a different direction. I have tried to recapture the turbulent College Street, the pub culture of Park Street and the emergence of [[Gautam Chattopadhyay]].</blockquote>

Arpita Paul gave full credit to the director for the realistic portrayal of her character. She told– "It is a very different kind of movie by Anjanda with realistic elements that would help the audience to relate to the period and the characters... "<ref name="I went by what Anjanda said in Dutta vs Dutta: Arpita">{{cite news|title=I went by what Anjanda said in Dutta vs Dutta: Arpita|url=http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/i-went-byanjanda-said-in-dutta-vs-dutta-arpita/83826/|accessdate=1 December 2012|newspaper=Business Standard|date=25 November 2012}}</ref>

[[Indraneil Sengupta]], another actor of the film told– "Everybody in the cast acted their part to bring back that era, which rocked Kolkata and neighbourhood, about which we heard so many things, alive."<ref name="I went by what Anjanda said in Dutta vs Dutta: Arpita" />

== Critical reception ==

{|class="wikitable infobox plain" style="float:right; width:20em; font-size: 80%; text-align: center; margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em; padding:0;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
! colspan="2" style="font-size:120%;" | Professional reviews
|-
! colspan="2" style="background:#d1dbdf; font-size:120%;" | Review Scores
|-
! Source
! Rating
|-
|-
|''[[Anandabazar Patrika]]''
|9/10
|-
|''[[The Times of India]]''
|{{Rating|3.5|5}}
|}

The film received positive reviews. According to [[Anandabazar Patrika]] critic Sangeeta Bandopadhyay, this was Anjan Dutt's best film. This opinion was supported by another Bengali newspaper ''[[Ei Samay]]'' too. Anandabazar Patrika gave the film 9 out of 10.<ref name="Anjan Dutt er sera chhobi">{{cite news|title=Anjan Dutt er sera chhobi|date=1 December 2012|author=Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay|language=Bengali}}</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' gave it 3{{frac|1|2}} stars out of 5 stars.

== Songs ==
{{Track listing
|extra_column=Singer(s)
|all_lyrics =
|title1=Bhalobeshe Sakhi
|music1= [[Rabindra Nath Tagore]]
|extra1=[[Rupankar Bagchi]] and [[Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury]]
|length1=03:46
|title2=Somewhere
|music2= Neel Dutt
|extra2=Neel Dutt
|length2=
|title3=Tobu Jodi
|music3= [[Neel Dutt]]
|extra3=[[Rupankar Bagchi]]
|length3=4:24
|title4=Uthogo Bharatalakkhi
|music4= Neel Dutt
|extra4=Anjan Dutt and Somlata
|length4=
|title5=Dutta Vs Dutta Theme
|music5= Neel Dutt
|extra5=Anjan Dutt and Neel Dutt
|length5=
}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{External media
| video1= {{YouTube|cw6pSxW4b5w|Official trailer}}
}}
* {{IMDb title|2556700}}
* {{Official website|http://www.duttavsdutta.com/}}

{{Anjan Dutt}}

[[Category:2012 films]]
[[Category:Films set in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Films directed by Anjan Dutt]]
[[Category:Films about Naxalism]]
[[Category:Indian biographical films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]
[[Category:2010s Bengali-language films]]

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