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{{Infobox film <br />
| name = Ekti Nadir Naam<br />
| image =Ekti Nadir Naam poster.jpg<br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
|director = Anup Singh<br />
| producer = NFDC, <br />[[British Film Institute]], <br />Aashirbad Chalachitra, Bangladesh, <br />The Ministry of External Affairs, India, <br />Riverfilms<br />
| writer = <br />
| starring = Shibu Prasad Mukhopadhyay, <br /> [[Shomi Kaiser]], <br /> [[Supriya Devi|Supriya Choudhury]], <br /> Abhanish Bandopadhyay<br />
| distributor = [[British Film Institute]] <br />
|cinematography=[[K. K. Mahajan]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|2003|06|28|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 1:27:34<br />
| country = India, UK, Bangladesh<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| budget = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Ekti Nadir Naam''''' (English: The Name of a River) is a 2003 documentary-style film directed [[Anup Singh (Filmmaker)|Anup Singh]], exploring the life and work of the great Indian filmmaker [[Ritwik Ghatak]] and is set in the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|partition of Bengal]] in 1947.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews46/the_name_of_a_river.htm |title=The Name of a River - Anup Singh |publisher=Dvdbeaver.com |date=2001-06-18 |accessdate=2012-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321152506/http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews46/the_name_of_a_river.htm |archivedate=21 March 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref><br />
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The film won the Silver Dhow Prize at the 5th [[Zanzibar International Film Festival]].<ref name="Broadcasting2002">{{cite book|author=India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|title=Report - Government of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V--JAAAAMAAJ|page=47|year=2002}}</ref><br />
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==Overview==<br />
''The Name of a River'' is Anup Singh's debut work<ref name="Anup Singh biography">{{cite web|title=Anup Singh biography|url=http://www.chaosmag.in/anup.html|publisher=Chaos Mag|accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref> and focuses on a love story between a man and a woman crossing the river between Bangladesh and India - playing the roles of refugees, divine beings and literary and cinematic characters - to understand the mysteries of the events that led to the massacre of half a million people and forced ten million people to migrate across the newly established borders. Covering a huge area of visual, aural and intellectual ground within its 90 minutes, this exquisite film presents its audience with a dreamlike odyssey through a history, a life and a work that we, the viewers, encounter in the shape of stunning landscapes and music, lovers and gods, myths and memories, literature and cinema.<ref>{{cite web|author=British Film Institute |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/blu-rays-dvds/name-river |title=The Name of a River &#124; British Film Institute |publisher=Bfi.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2012-10-07}}</ref><br />
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=== Filming ===<br />
The film was shot in India and Bangladesh.<br />
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== Credits ==<br />
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=== Cast ===<br />
* Shibu Prasad Mukhopadhyay<br />
* [[Shomi Kaiser]]<br />
* [[Supriya Devi|Supriya Choudhury]]<br />
* Abhanish Bandopadhyay<br />
* Rosy Afsari<br />
* Kabori Sarwar<br />
* Gita Dey<br />
* Gita Ghatak<br />
* Baisakhi Marjit<br />
* Pratithi Debi<br />
* Meem<br />
* Adrita<br />
* Rousan Zamil<br />
* Tondra Islam<br />
* Tamizuddin Rezvi<br />
* Kalipod Sen<br />
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=== Crew ===<br />
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* Director: Anup Singh<br />
* Screenplay: Madan Gopal Singh and Anup Singh<br />
* Original Music: Sanjoy Chowdhury<br />
* Cinematography: K.K. Mahajan and Prasann Jain<br />
* Editor: Arghya Kamal Mitra<br />
* Sound Designer: Nihar Samal<br />
* Art Director: Chokas Bharadwaj<br />
* Costume: Madhuja Mukhopadhyay<br />
* Line Producer: Mita Vasisht<br />
* Executive Producers: Steve Brookes, P. Parameswaran and Akhand, Sanwar Murshed.<br />
* Producer: NFDC, [[British Film Institute]], Aashirbad Chalachitra, Bangladesh, The Ministry of External Affairs, India and Riverfilms.<br />
* Distributor: British Film Institute<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{External media<br />
|video1= {{YouTube|YRjNDsoswLM|Full movie}}<br />
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* {{IMDb title|0376589|The Name Of a River}}<br />
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