The Bengali Night
The Bengali Night French La nuit Bengali is a 1988 semiautobiographical film based upon the Mircea Eliade 1933 Romanian novel, Bengal Nights, directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Hugh Grant, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Pathak and Shabana Azmi.
Production of the film occurred about a decade after Maitreyi Devi the inspiration for the character Gayatri published her version of the story Na Hanyate, originally published in Bengali. She also extracted a promise from Eliade that his version would never be published in English. According to Ginu Kamani in A Terrible HurtThe Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi, Maitreyi witnessed the making of the film The Bengali Night, which was shot in Calcutta from 198788 Eliade had died that year. Her protests culminated in court cases against the film for insulting Hinduism and for being pornographic. The film was only shown once in India at a film festival in 1989 to mixed reviews and was never released in theaters in the U.S. Kamani also notes
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