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Original name: Ek Jo Chhilo Raja
English name: The Impostor Prince
Year: 2018
Run time: 149'
Language: Bengali
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black & White, and Colour
Country: India
Director: Srijit Mukherji
Producer: Shrikant Mohta, Mahendra Soni
Cast: Jisshu Sengupta, Jaya Ahsan, Aparna Sen, Anjan Dutt, Anirban Bhattacharya
Screenplay: Srijit Mukherji
Cinematographer: Gairik Sarkar
Editor: Pronoy Dasgupta
Sound Designer: Anirban Sengupta
Music Composer: Indraadip Dasgupta
Costume Designer: Sabarni Das
Production Designer: Shibaji Pal
Production Company: SVF Entertainment
Srijit Mukherji, is known for his critical as well as commercially successful films like Autograph (2010), Baishe Srabon (2011), Jaatishwar (2014), Chutoskone (2014) and Rajkahini (2015), among others. A director, screen-writer and lyricist, his experiments with various genres and layered narrative, have won him numerous accolades across critics and popular mass. Mukherji has become the face of contemporary Bengali cinema with his compelling films. He has been honoured with ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Original Screenplay’ awards for his film Chotuskone at the 62nd National Film Awards. His film Jaatishwar won 4 National Awards at the 61st National Awards.
The year was 1909. British India was a heady concoction of feudalism and early nationalism. On this backdrop, Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate (also known as the Bikrampur Estate), was affected by a disease, and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment along with his wife, Chandrabati Devi, brother-in-law, Satya, and a family doctor, Ashwini. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there as well. 12 years later, an ascetic with uncanny physical similarities returns to claim his kingdom and takes on the British with the help of the common people in a British court. What follows is one of the most incredible saga ever to unfold in the annals of Indian Judicial History which involved critical elements of politics, self-governance, identity as a philosophy, history, art, and various behavioural sciences in a court case which spanned for 16 years going up to the Privy Council in London and an unbelievable paranormal twist at the end.
