<p class="bodytext">A Bengali short film 'Boitorini' starring legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been released on YouTube and OTT platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film directed by Anindya Dutta was released on Tuesday on digital platform to commemorate the 86th birthday of Chatterjee.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The main lead of 'Boitorini' (The River Between) is played by the late thespian. Beside getting released on YouTube at the dedicated IP of a production house where people can see the 29-minute film, it is also being streamed at an OTT.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The story revolves around the life of widower Sougata Roychoudhury (played by Soumitra Chatterjee), an eminent poet who is being honoured by a literary society to have a serene holiday at Kusumpur forest, the director said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For widower Sougata, this is also an escapade from the estranged family of his careerist son and as he traverses the journey, a question storms his mind where does man escape after all? He tries to find the answer in all that he could achieve in life. As a mysterious village girl appears before him suddenly, he realises that there is a river that flows in between to separate life from death. None can escape from the suddenness of crossing it at the end," Dutta said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">A Bengali short film 'Boitorini' starring legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been released on YouTube and OTT platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film directed by Anindya Dutta was released on Tuesday on digital platform to commemorate the 86th birthday of Chatterjee.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The main lead of 'Boitorini' (The River Between) is played by the late thespian. Beside getting released on YouTube at the dedicated IP of a production house where people can see the 29-minute film, it is also being streamed at an OTT.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The story revolves around the life of widower Sougata Roychoudhury (played by Soumitra Chatterjee), an eminent poet who is being honoured by a literary society to have a serene holiday at Kusumpur forest, the director said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For widower Sougata, this is also an escapade from the estranged family of his careerist son and as he traverses the journey, a question storms his mind where does man escape after all? He tries to find the answer in all that he could achieve in life. As a mysterious village girl appears before him suddenly, he realises that there is a river that flows in between to separate life from death. None can escape from the suddenness of crossing it at the end," Dutta said.</p>