CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · Arts & Letters

Sakaler Rang

2009 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7402794
Source-derived summary

Sakaler Rang (transl. The colours of the morning) is a Bengali film directed by Suvamoy Chattopadhyay. This was Suvamoy's first movie as a director. This budget of the film was ₹900,000 (US$9,300). Because of this reason, Suvamoy had to take the burden of almost all the departments of the film.

Plot

Prananath aspires to educate the children of his village and goes to the city to earn and send back money for books. Eventually, the village gets a school, but the locals are in for some shocking news.

Cast and crew

Cast

Taranga Sarkar as Prananath.

Paulomi DeSakina.

Monu Mukhopadhyay as Teacher.

Editorial summary

“Sakaler Rang” enters the record as 2009 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sakaler, Rang and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-11-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sakaler, Rang and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sakaler Rang” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sakaler, Rang and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7402794. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sakaler Rang”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sakaler Rang primary sources, Sakaler Rang archive and Sakaler research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sakaler Rang”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Sakaler Rang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.