Debi (2018 film)

Debi : Misir Ali Prothombar or simply Debi (Bengali: দেবী English : "Goddess") is a 2018 Bangladeshi supernatural thriller film based on Humayun Ahmed's novel of the same name. It is directed by Anam Biswas, starring Chanchal Chowdhury as Misir Ali, Jaya Ahsan, Iresh Zaker, Animesh Aich and Sabnam Faria. The film is produced by Jaya Ahsan and the government of Bangladesh as her first production from her production house C for Cinema.[2][3] The film was released on 19 October 2018.[1]

Debi (দেবী)
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnam Biswas
Produced byJaya Ahsan
Screenplay byAnam Biswas
Based onDebi
by Humayun Ahmed
Starring
Music by
CinematographyKamrul Hasan Khosru
Edited bySazal Alok
Production
company
C for Cinema (With sponsorship from Govt. of Bangladesh)
Distributed byJaaz Multimedia
Release date
  • 19 October 2018 (2018-10-19)[1]
Running time
106 Minutes
CountryBangladesh[2]
LanguageBengali

Plot

The story follows a lonely housewife Ranu (Jaya Ahsan) and her paranormal powers. After some strange circumstances, Her husband Anis (Animesh Aich), seeks help from Misir Ali (Chanchal Chowdhury), a psychiatrist and part-time professor in Dhaka University, to find an answer to her paranormal problems. At the same time, Nilu (Sabnam Faria), the eldest daughter of Ranu's landlord and Misir Ali's student, comes to know about an unknown person named Ahmed Saber (Iresh Zaker) in Facebook and gets curious to meet him.

Ranu tells Misir Ali about an accident of her childhood in which a corpse got stuck with her pajamas while swimming in the river. To gather more information, Misir Ali travels to her village. However, it turns out that, that childhood memory is nothing but a mixture of many other incidents whereas Ranu never got stuck with a dead body. After a lot of research, Misir Ali finds out the truth- a local criminal once lured young Ranu in an abandoned temple and attempted to rape her. However, that failed because someone protected Ranu. Ranu's cousin also informs him about the future telling ability of Ranu which seems to appear after that incident. Misir Ali also learns that a beautiful goddess statue was stolen at the same time, which was thought to be haunted because, according to local legends, two girls were sacrificed to satisfy it. When Ranu is told about her dark past, she immediately remembers everything and replies that the man didn't lure her, she was already at the temple because she was attracted to the goddess statue and often played with it like a doll. She also reveals that the goddess protected her and till now, she's with her. Misir Ali doesn't believe this and tries to solve this fact logically but fails. On the other hand, the two daughters of the landlord, especially Nilu become quite close to Ranu. The relation between them evolves as the story continues.

On Nilu's birthday, Ahmed Saber sends a present with a love letter, in which he asks her to go on a date. Their date goes quite awkwardly, and it also appears that Saber lied to Nilu about his age. But everything goes fine until Saber kidnaps her while returning home in his car. In Saber's torture cell, Nilu eventually finds out that Saber is a misogynist serial killer who brutally kills his victims by tricking them on social media. Suddenly, Ranu gets a strange feeling and sees a blurry vision of Nilu, in which Saber is preparing to kill her. She quickly informs others about Nilu's danger but unable to find her. As a last attempt to save Nilu, Ranu calls the goddess. As a result, she becomes very sick and falls into her deathbed. The goddess saves Nilu by killing Saber. But in this process, Ranu dies.

The movie then jumps a few days later, showing Misir Ali attending Ranu's funeral. There he accidentally meets Nilu and becomes shocked because her face and attitude are now the same as Ranu's, indicating that the goddess now stays with her.

Cast

Reception

Debi received praises from most of the audience and positive reviews from critics. Debi rated 8.1 on IMDb. It received huge commercial success and became highest grossing Bangladeshi film of 2018.

Controversy

Humayun Ahmed's daughter Shila Ahmed said that the film didn't take permission of them to shoot.[4]

Awards
Awards Year Award Section Recipient Result Ref
Bachsas Awards 2018 Best Actress Jaya Ahsan Won
Bachsas Awards 2018 Best Newcomer Sabnam Faria Won
Bachsas Awards 2018 Best Director Anam Biswas Won
Meril Prothom Alo Awards 2018 Best Actress Jaya Ahsan Won
Meril Prothom Alo Awards 2018 Best Actor Chanchal Chowdhury Won
Meril Prothom Alo Awards 2018 Best Newcomer Sabnam Faria Won
Bangladesh National Film Awards 2018 Best Actress Jaya Ahsan Won
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References
  1. Sarkar, Sudhamoy (4 October 2018). "Debi finally has a release date". Dhaka Tribune.
  2. Sen, Zinla (12 April 2018). "Here's the poster of Jaya Ahsan's Debi". The Times of India.
  3. Ferdous, Fahmim (12 April 2018). "First look poster of "Debi" launched". The Daily Star.
  4. দেবী নিয়ে হুমায়ূন কন্যার অভিযোগ. RTV (in Bengali).
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