Hazelnut Media, the Singapore-based affect manufacturing firm, has acquired the worldwide rights to ‘Pinjar’, the Bengali function movie directed by Kolkata-based doctor and filmmaker Dr. Rudrajit Roy, and can amplify the movie’s launch by a hands-on initiative supporting ladies’ schooling in rural West Bengal.
The movie is scheduled to hit Indian theaters on July 10.
The settlement was marked in Calcutta with a white dove launch ceremony, constructing on the central motif of the movie’s launch.
Produced by Chasing Desires Movies in affiliation with Bell Jar Movies, “Pinjar” – which interprets to “The Cage” – focuses on 5 characters whose lives are linked by a shared incapability to interrupt free. Tarak is a fowler who survives by trapping the flight he can’t attain; her daughter Jhimli comes of age in a world that constrains her earlier than she will be able to discover her bearings. Paromita, a widowed trainer, hides her loneliness behind responsibility and routine, whereas Shefali, a working lady, hides her bruises beneath concealer and silence. Iqbal, a Muslim migrant, drifts right into a metropolis that refuses to welcome him. All through all their tales is a wild chicken – stolen from the forest, hawked in markets, caged in a home – whose restlessness turns into an emblem of every character’s want for freedom.
The ensemble solid contains Mamata Shankar, Pleasure Sengupta, Sagnik Mukherjee, Mallika Banerjee Roy, Satakshi Nandy, Ishan Mazumder, Tathagata Mukherjee, Swastidipa Rabidas and Samuel Alam. Manas Bhattacharyya is the cinematographer, with music by Ratul Shankar. The music rights have been acquired by Pluto Music.
“From the start, we believed within the energy of Pinjar to maneuver hearts and spark change,” stated Hazelnut Media co-CEOs Olivier A. Dock and Isabella Sreyashii Sen. “Our dedication has been to assist the movie and its makers, guaranteeing its story of resilience and freedom reaches audiences world wide whereas making a tangible affect on the bottom.”
The movie has collected appreciable competition mileage since its world premiere on the Chicago South Asian Movie Competition in 2025, and has additionally been screened on the Barcelona Asian Movie Competition, Toronto Worldwide Indian Movie Competition, Sydney Indian Movie Competition, London Bengali Movie Competition, Montreal South Asian Movie Competition and Haapifest. On the Third Eye Asian Movie Competition in Mumbai, Roy acquired the jury’s particular point out for greatest director.
“‘Pinjar’ was born from the picture of a chicken in a cage, a metaphor for the restrictions that form human life,” stated Roy. “My imaginative and prescient was to ask viewers to consider the cages we inherit and the quiet human want to transcend them.”
Hazelnut Media is contemplating a world rollout past India, with theatrical and competition plans spanning South and Southeast Asia and diaspora markets within the UK, Center East and Singapore, earlier than embarking on a wider mainstream theatrical launch. The technique attracts on co-CEO Sen’s expertise as a uncommon impartial cinema distributor working in South and Southeast Asia – she has overseen almost 120 worldwide movie releases within the area – alongside co-CEO Dock’s three many years spanning Europe, the Center East, Africa and Latin America. The duo beforehand collaborated on the India-Singapore co-production “Early Days” and the Iran-Singapore manufacturing “Tadji”, and co-created Legendia, a world initiative bringing basic cinema to new audiences.
“This movie has been made with sacrifice and conviction,” stated Animesh Ganguly, Affiliate Producer at Bell Jar Movies. “Seeing Hazelnut Media champion it on a world scale and join it to ladies’ schooling deeply validates why we created ‘Pinjar’ within the first place.
Roy, who practices intensive care medication in Kolkata, developed the movie by two years of fieldwork in rural villages and slums in West Bengal. His earlier quick movies embody the sci-fi movie “Wavelength,” the drama “Man and Spouse,” and the documentary “Chasing My Dream,” which alone received 22 worldwide awards, with the movies collectively incomes choices at Oscar-qualifying festivals.