The Bengali

Name: The Bengali
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 9, 2022
Duration: 72 min
Cast: Fatima Shaik, Khori Villagers, Mario Tio, Nicole Hardin, Parvej Husen Talukder

2022

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Dada Films | Release Date: September 9, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Fatima Shaik, Khori Villagers, Mario Tio, Nicole Hardin, Parvej Husen Talukder

Summary: Fatima Shaik embarks upon an unlikely quest when she travels from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to India, home of her grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa. An African-American writer whose family has lived in Louisiana for four generations, she travels with Kolkata-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul to a part of India where no African-American (orFatima Shaik embarks upon an unlikely quest when she travels from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to India, home of her grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa. An African-American writer whose family has lived in Louisiana for four generations, she travels with Kolkata-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul to a part of India where no African-American (or American) has ever gone. Her search for the past is fraught with uncertainty, as she looks for her grandfather’s descendants, the land he claimed to own, and the truth behind the stories she grew up with. … Expand

Director: Kavery Kaul

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 9, 2022

The Bengali is a lovely home movie about finding one’s roots, a simple tale that connects a New Orleans family to its West Bengal patriarch, who came over from India in the late 19th century. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 15, 2022

It comes off as more of a wandering travelogue that only hints at richer insights into the bridging of cultures, preferring the comfort of an established trajectory to what seems, in bits and pieces, to have been an intriguingly uncertain quest. Read full review

Beandrea July

Sep 8, 2022

Despite an intriguing premise, what Kaul actually wants to say here is in need of a lot more fleshing out. Read full review

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