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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Half Serious<br />
| image = Half Serious poster.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| director = Utsav Mukherjee<br />
| producer = HighDefinition Entertainment Pvt Ltd<br />
| writer = Subhadeep Das & Utsav Mukherjee<br />
| starring =<br />
| music = Joy Sarkar<br />
| cinematography = Chandan Goswami<br />
| editing = Moloy Laha<br />
| studio = <br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2013|07}}<br />
| runtime = <br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
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'''''Half Serious''''' is a 2013 Indian [[Bengali language]] film directed by Utsav Mukherjee. The film is a social satire<ref name=ToI>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-19/previews/37843121_1_sudipta-chakraborty-script-gender |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628022139/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-19/previews/37843121_1_sudipta-chakraborty-script-gender |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 June 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Half Serious |date=19 March 2013}}</ref> which explores the themes of domestic violence<ref>{{cite news |last=Dutta |first=Priyanka |url=http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/114564112-utsav-mukherjees-half-serious-take-domestic-violence-prevalant-india-bengali-movie |title=Utsav Mukherjee's 'Half Serious' Take on Domestic Violence Prevalant in India |publisher=Washington Bangla Radio USA |date=20 November 2012}}</ref> and gender inequality.<ref name=ToI/><ref>{{cite web |last=Naidu |first=Shriram |url=http://www.gomolo.com/news-half-serious-to-start-with-the-shooting-soon/5749 |title=Half Serious, a new Bengali film, to go on floors |publisher=Go Molo |date=9 November 2012}}</ref><br />
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On 26 July 2013, the producer of the proposed film ''Dyakh Kemon Lagey'', the script of which was claimed to be registered with the Eastern India Motion Picture Association in 2011, filed a suit in a Sealdah court complaining that Mukherjee's film was a copy of his.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Court-halts-release-of-Bengali-film-Half-Serious-on-copycat-charge/articleshow/21351092.cms|title=Court halts release of Bengali film 'Half Serious' on copycat charge|date=26 July 2013|work=Times of India}}</ref> The court immediately issued an injunction, but removed it on 31 July 2013, on the ground that no similarity was found between the ''Half Serious ''script and the script that the complainant produced in the court.<ref>http://www.ebela.in/details/9798-1354530.html</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Roopa Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Silajit Majumder]]<br />
* [[Saheb Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Mumtaz Sorcar]]<br />
* [[Ridhima Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Sudipta Chakraborty]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:2010s Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:2013 films]]<br />
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