Jaatishwar
Directed by	Srijit Mukherji
Written by	Srijit Mukherji
Produced by	Reliance Entertainment and Rana Sarkar[1]
Starring	Prosenjit Chatterjee Jisshu Sengupta Swastika Mukherjee Abir Chatterjee Rahul Banerjee Ananya Chatterjee Kharaj Mukherjee Mamata Shankar Riya Sen Srijit Mukherji Biswajit Chakraborty Bharat Kaul
Cinematography	Soumik Haldar
Edited by	Bodhaditya Banerjee Pronoy Dasgupta
Music by	Kabir Suman
Release date	17 January 2014 (2014-01-17) (India)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	₹4.0 crore (US$460,000)[2]

Jaatishwar is a 2014IndianBengalimusical drama film directed bySrijit Mukherji, starringProsenjit Chatterjee,Jisshu Sengupta andSwastika Mukherjee. The main focus of the plot revolves around the life and notable works ofAnthony Firingee (Hensman Anthony), a 19th-centuryBengali language folk poet ofPortuguese origin, along with other supporting characters. The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different periods—19th century and the present day (2013).^[1] The music of Jaatiswar is composed byKabir Suman.

The film has been recognized as the most awarded film in the61st National Film Awards with 4 awards in the following categories -Best Music Direction,Best Male Playback Singer,Best Costume Design andBest Make-up Artist.

In the present timeline, Rohit Mehta (Jisshu Sengupta), aGujarati born and brought up inCalcutta, falls in love with Mahamaya Bandopadhyay (Swastika Mukherjee) and tries to woo her. Since he can just barely utter a few Bengali words (and that too in the wrong places), Mahamaya throws him a hurdle to cross - if he can write a song with correct Bengali lyrics and sing it without any accent or mistake, she would think of a possible relationship. Rohit accepts the challenge and goes to Portugal to study colonial history.

Two years pass. Mahamaya is now a radio jockey at a popular radio station. Rohit is in Portugal but still very much in love with her. His Bengali is being refined by his friend and classmate Bodhi (Abir Chatterjee). Rohit chooses the music course and decides to do a dissertation on the 19th Century folk poet Hensman Anthony(Anthony Firingee). He goes to Calcutta and then to Farashdanga, Chandannagar, where Anthony lived and composed his songs. He goes to the local library to get some books where he meets the assistant librarian, a mysterious man named Kushal Hajra (Prosenjit Chatterjee), who claims to be the re-incarnation of Anthony himself. Kushal laments that the visions of his previous life are haunting him every day, and slowly taking over the memory of his present life. Rohit promises to take him to Calcutta for treatment, in return he demands the life history of Anthony.

The story then goes back to the 19th Century, where Anthony impresses the villagers with his musical talent. He saves a young Bengali widow, Soudamini, from performingsati and later marries her. But he yearns to learn the Bengali language and compose songs in that language. He learns it, reading Hindu scriptures and understanding the meaning of the folk compositions. In those days,kavigaans were very popular in Calcutta, where twokaviyaals or folk poets would face each other with their respective groups and compete with each other through songs and poems. Anthony was impressed by thekavigaans and decided to form a group on his own. He used to compose the songs himself, and on the first occasion met the womankaviyaal, Joggeshwari (Ananya Chatterjee), whom he defeats. Slowly, as he began to progress in his career as akaviyaal, he competed with notedkaviyaals of the time like Ram Basu (Sujan Mukherjee) and Thakur Singha (Biswajit Chakraborty).

Simultaneously, in the present timeline, Kushal is taken to a psychiatrist, where he is informed that to stop the visions, he must complete a work which he could not possibly do as Anthony. Kushal's visions get stronger and stronger. Rohit meanwhile has found a way to sing his latest Bengali composition in front of Mahamaya, whose radio company has decided to organize a competition among bands hailing both from West Bengal and Bangladesh, "Bandemonium". Bodhi, who meanwhile had come to Calcutta to meet Rohit, takes him to Sidhu (playing himself) to arrange musicians for Rohit's performance. Meanwhile, Mahamaya had also started developing feelings for Rohit.

Kushal reveals to Rohit the story of Anthony's lastkavigaan. Anthony had been planning to do a Durga-puja all by himself. But the villagers were against this, as, to them, Anthony is afiringee (foreigner) who had no right to perform a Hindu puja. He tells Soudamini that he is going to Calcutta for anotherkavigaan, and so won't be staying during the days of the puja. As planned, he leaves for Calcutta on the day of the puja. This time, his competition is with the bestkaviyaal, Bhola Moira (Kharaj Mukherjee). The competition heightens and Anthony wins after a tough fight.

In the present timeline, the day of "Bandemonium" has arrived. Rohit goes on stage and performs his Bengali songE Tumi Kemon Tumi as Mahamaya looks on, tears in her eyes. Within the song, the film goes back to the 19th Century. After Anthony returned from Calcutta, victorious against Bhola Moira, he finds his house and his durga idol set on fire by the villagers. He finds Soudamini dead and nobody around. With his love killed and his faith shattered, he digs a grave for her, and then for himself (as he had once promised jokingly to his wife).

During the show, Bodhi brings Kushal to the auditorium to see the performance of Rohit. Kushal meets Mahamaya, and then leaves abruptly. After the performance, Rohit and Mahamaya profess their love for each other backstage. Rohit suddenly is informed that Kushal is missing. He, along with Mahamaya, goes to Kushal's house in Chandannagar, where they find him completely insane and lost in his visions. He attacks Rohit and then blabbers rubbish. Rohit, heartbroken, leaves with Mahamaya, realising that Kushal is beyond cure now. The film then ends with a final twist, revealing Mahamaya as the reincarnation of Soudamini, though she remembers nothing of her previous birth. Anthony had wanted to apologize to his wife for leaving her alone to get killed by the neighbours, which Kushal does after Mahamaya leaves with Rohit. The visions will not haunt him anymore. The film ends as Kabir Suman's song "Jaatishwar" plays in the background.

Kabir Suman is the music director of the film, whileIndradip Dasgupta is the assistant music director. The album was critically and commercially successful. All thekabigaans of the film is included in the album. Thekabigaans bring back a long lost era of Bengali music through this film. Curiously, the songJaatishwar which is taken from Kabir Suman's own album Jaatishwar(1997), is not included in the soundtrack, but is used during the end credits of the film, probably to emphasize on the protagonist's state of mind.

The film was released on 17 January 2014 in India and received positive critical reviews. It is hailed as one of the best works of Srijit Mukherji and Prosenjit Chatterjee.^[3][4] The film had a special screening for the President of IndiaPranab Mukherjee on 15 January 2014 inRashtrapati Bhavan inNew Delhi.^[5] The film was among a shortlist of eight films from India in the race for submission tothe 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.^[6]

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