2014 Film Arundhati

The film stars Koel Mallick as a warrior queen. It is the remake of the 2009 Telugu movie of the same name.

Arundhati
Arundhati Movie Poster
Directed by	Sujit Mondal
Screenplay by	N.K. Salil
Produced by	Shrikant Mohta Nispal Singh
Starring	Koel Mallick Indraneil Sengupta Swagata Mukherjee Debshankar Haldar Bharat Kaul
Cinematography	Kumud Verma
Edited by	Raviranjan Maitra
Music by	Jeet Gannguli Koti
Production companies	Shree Venkatesh Films Surinder Films
Distributed by	Shree Venkatesh Films Surinder Films
Release date	30 May 2014 (2014-05-30)
Running time	137 Minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

The film is jointly produced by Rajib Tandoon, under the banner of their production houses. It is the remake of the 2009 Telugu film Arundhati, starring actors Anushka Shetty and Sonu Sood. The film was around a budget of 6-7 crores INR.

• Koel Mallick as Rani Arundhati aka Moni Maa/ Arundhati aka Mishti
• Indraneil Sengupta as Kal Rudra
• Aishi Bhattacharya as young Rani Arundhati
• Priyanka Rati Pal as Iraboti
• Debshankar Haldar as Fakir Baba
• Soma Banerjee as Annada ma
• Sujoy as Mishti's would be husband Sid
• Chandicharan as Misti's grand father
• Swarnava Sanyal as Arundhati's son
• Debesh Roy Chowdhury as Aghori Tantrik
• Bharat Kaul as Raja Krishna Kishore Bhatta
• Kaushik Chakraborty as Agnidev Bhatta
• Chandraneev Mukherjee as Shomu
• Mousumi Saha as Mishti's mother
• Dulal Lahiri as priest
• Basudeb Mukherjee as Gurudeb
• Swagata Mukherjee as Maya (Rudra's mother)
• Moyna Mukherjee

Casting

Koel Mallick will be seen as a warrior queen for the first time in this film. Regarding her role, she said, "Till the time you don’t experiment or take risks, you don’t know to what level you can go. Playing these larger-than-life characters isn't easy, specially because I have never done it. I needed to first believe in the subject. I believe in reincarnation and life after death. After saying yes, I had to really work very hard on getting Arundhati's body language right."

Filming

Filming of Arundhati started on 24 October 2013. Mallick was reported to have a very busy schedule during the filming of Arundhati. She had to learn horse-riding and sword-fighting for portraying her character in this film. Her horse-riding classes were taken by expert Vikram Rathore, at the Kolkata Maidan during the early hours of the day. Shooting locations include Bolpur and Kolkata. Her sword-fighting sequences are based on the martial art Kalaripayattu.

Jeet Gannguli and Koti composed the music for Arundhati.

• Star Jalsha Award for Best Actress for Arundhati (2014 film)