SVF has announced the release date for the upcoming movie ‘Athhoi’. Athhoi is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic Othello.
The movie is directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay and Anirban Bhattacharya acts as the creative director for the project. Previously, Anirban had helmed the Hoichoi show ‘Mandaar’ which was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. He played an important character in the show as well.
Arna, the director, will play the titular role himself. Athhoi will be the bengali name for Othello. Sohini, who was Lady Macbeth in Mandaar, will be leading in ‘Athhoi’ as well. She will be playing Diyamona, the character inspired by Desdemona. Anirban himself will be playing the role of Gogo, inspired by Yago, the conspiring villain. There will be other actors in the movie like Ditipriya Roy, Arpan Ghoshal, Mimi Dutta, Soumik Guha etc.
Looks like Anirban is now in a mission to recreate the Shakespeare classics that intrigued Vishal Bharadwaj too. With Macbeth and now Othello, there is a high chance that we might get to see an adaptation of Hamlet and King Lear as well. SVF is doing a great job in providing great content for audiences and the unique filmography that the production house has delivered is quite awesome. Fans now wait eagerly for the teaser and trailer of the movie. Hopefully it will be just as stunning as ‘Mandaar’ was. ‘Athhoi’ will be hitting the theaters on the 14th of June this year.