Dabaru

Dabaru (The chess master) is a 2024 biographical sports drama film based on the life of the youngest grandmaster of India, Surya Sekhar Ganguly directed by Pathikrit Basu. The film unfolds a motivational tale about a young chess player, Surja, who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata during 1988–1998 to finally become a grandmaster India The flim got critically acclaimed and highest rated Bengali flim of the 2024 year but the flim didn't perform well on the box office

Cast

 * Rituparna Sengupta as Karuna Devi
 * Chiranjit Chakraborty as Rathindra Nath Chakraborty
 * Dipankar De as Nabin Sarkar, Souro's maternal grandfather
 * Kaushik Sen as Samiran, a ruthless coach
 * Shankar Chakraborty as Souro's father
 * Kharaj Mukherjee as moneylender
 * Biswanath Basu as neighbour
 * Sanghasree Sinha Mitra
 * Arghya Basu Roy as teenage Souro, who became the grandmaster
 * Abhijit Guha (director) as Sports Minister Subir Banerjee
 * Samadarshi Sarkar as young Souro
 * Tirtha Mistry

Credits

 * Presented by Nandita Roy and Sanjay Agarwal
 * Produced by Windows
 * Creative Producer – Shiboprosad Mukherjee
 * Creative Advisor – Zinia Sen
 * Directed by Pathikrit Basu
 * DOP - Madhura Palit
 * Editor - Md. Kalam
 * Screenplay – Aritra Banerjee
 * Dialogues – Arpan Gupta
 * Art Director – Ananda Adhya
 * Costume Design – Sulagna Choudhury
 * Music – Bonnie Chakraborty, Prosen
 * Background Score - Bonnie Chakraborty
 * Programming and Arrangement - Tamal Kanti Haldar and Sudipto Paul
 * Sound Design and Mix – Tirthankar Majumdar
 * Graphics – Rajatsubhra Majumdar