--- title: 'Chokher Bali (2003)' type: 'film' director: 'Rituparno Ghosh' released: '2003-01-01' runtime_minutes: 167 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/chokher-bali-2003' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366304/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Chokher Bali (2003) 2003 · 167 min · Drama, Romance · India Original title: চোখের বালি ## Synopsis Chokher Bali is a 2003 Indian Bengali-language epic period romantic drama film co-written and directed by Rituparno Ghosh. Produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, the film is based on Rabindranath Tagore's 1903 eponymous novel. It stars Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aishwarya Rai, Tota Roy Chowdhury and Raima Sen in lead roles, while Lily Chakravarty, Tina Dutta, Mousumi Saha play supporting roles, with Swastika Mukherjee in a special appearance. The film explores the extramarital affair between Binodini (Rai), a young widow, and Mahendra (Prosenjit), an old suitor of hers, the complicated friendship with Asha (Raima), Mahendra's wife, and her mutually conflicting feelings with Behari (Tota), Mahendra's childhood best friend. The film was later dubbed into Hindi and was released internationally in that language. ## Credits - **Director:** [Rituparno Ghosh](https://cinepixo.com/people/rituparno-ghosh) - **Screenplay:** [Rituparno Ghosh](https://cinepixo.com/people/rituparno-ghosh) - **Original Music Composer:** [Debojyoti Mishra](https://cinepixo.com/people/debojyoti-mishra) ## Cast - [Raima Sen](https://cinepixo.com/people/raima-sen) - [Tota Roy Chowdhury](https://cinepixo.com/people/tota-roy-chowdhury) - [Lily Chakravarty](https://cinepixo.com/people/lily-chakravarty) - [Swastika Mukherjee](https://cinepixo.com/people/swastika-mukherjee) - [Aishwarya Rai](https://cinepixo.com/people/aishwarya-rai) - [Prosenjit Chatterjee](https://cinepixo.com/people/prosenjit-chatterjee) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/chokher-bali-2003 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1637583); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.