Kangana Ranaut To Play Binodini Dasi, Helmed By Pradeep Sarkar

Mumbai, 19th October 2022 (NewsHelpline) - Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut will play the legendary Bengali theatre actress Binodini Dasi, professionally known as 'Notee Binodini in an upcoming film directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

 

Notee Binodini was a key player in the evolution of the theatre culture in India. During a career that spanned 12 years, she enacted over 80 roles, including those of Sita, Draupadi, Radha, Ayesha, Kaikeyi, Motibibi and Kapalkundala under the mentorship of Girish Chandra Ghosh. She was one of the first South Asian theatre actresses to write her own autobiography.

 

Kangana took to her social media profile and dropped a story, it read, “Binodini was the first female actor in British occupied India after reaching the heights of success she renounces everything and becomes a saint” 

 

This yet-to-be-titled mega-budget film has been written by Prakash Kapadia, who has movies such as 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior', 'Padmavat', 'Devdas' and 'Black' to his credit.

 

Kangana is likely to start shooting for the Pradeep Sarkar film early next year post her directorial 'Emergency', where she plays the lead role of the late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. 

 

Emergency tells the story of a watershed moment in the political history of the country, the Emergency, which was declared by the then PM Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975, and lasted till 21 March 1977. During this 21-month period, civil liberties were suspended, press censorship came into being and elections were cancelled among other impositions. It is often referred to as one of the most controversial periods of India’s Independent history.

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