Dabaru (The chess master) is a 2024 biographical sports drama film based on the life of the youngest grandmaster of India, Surya Sekhar Ganguly directed by Pathikrit Basu. The film unfolds a motivational tale about a young chess player, Surja, who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata during 1988–1998 to finally become a grandmaster India.
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Directed by | Pathikrit Basu |
Written by | Arpan Gupta (dialogues) |
Screenplay by | Aritra Banerjee |
Produced by | Nandita Roy Shiboprosad Mukherjee Sanjay Agarwal |
Starring | Arghya Basu Roy Samadarshi Sarkar Deepankar De Rituparna Sengupta Chiranjeet Chakraborty Kaushik Sen |
Cinematography | Madhura Palit |
Edited by | Md. Kalam |
Music by | Bonnie Chakraborty Prasen |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
Language | Bengali |
Cast
edit- Rituparna Sengupta as Karuna Devi
- Chiranjit Chakraborty as Rathindra Nath Chakraborty
- Dipankar De as Nabin Sarkar, Souro's maternal grandfather
- Kaushik Sen as Samiran, a ruthless coach
- Shankar Chakraborty as Souro's father
- Kharaj Mukherjee as moneylender
- Biswanath Basu as neighbour
- Sanghasree Sinha Mitra
- Arghya Basu Roy as teenage Souro, who became the grandmaster
- Abhijit Guha (director) as Sports Minister Subir Banerjee
- Samadarshi Sarkar as young Souro
- Tirtha Mistry