Dabaru

Dabaru (transl. The Chess Master) is a 2024 Bengali 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, Surya, who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata during 1988–1998 to finally become a grandmaster from India.

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

1. I first heard about Dabaru a day before my daughter was born [1]
2. ‘Dabaru’: A Captivating Journey of India's Youngest Grandmaster Comes Alive on the Big Screen [2]
3. Dabaru title track is all about energy, emotion, and inspiration [3]

• Dabaru at IMDb