Mahishasur Marddini – A Night to Remember (মহিষাসুরমর্দ্দিনী) is a 2022 India-Bengali film written and directed by acclaimed director Ranjan Ghosh.

It stars Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee and Parambrata Chattopadhyay, and is considered as the director's boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema.

Mahishasur Marddini creates a bleak and haunting world that evokes shame and leaves the audience bruised.

[8] It avoids a mechanical plot and the causality of usual plot-driven stories, and is presented in the form of a seven-act play bringing together a collage of moments to establish the idea of a nightmarish world for women.

The entries and exits of characters, the performances, the dialogues and discourses, the staging and blocking, the use of props, the lighting and shot-taking are all arranged to creatively combine the language of film and the formal elements of theatre.

[9] In an interview, director Ranjan Ghosh had said that the infamous Nirbhaya (2012 Delhi gang rape and murder) incident was the origin of the story.

[11] In another interview the director had said that he had done a detailed shot-breakdown of the script along with his cinematographer Subhadeep Dey for over 25 days, in order to shoot the film in just over two weeks, because of budget constraints.

He pointed out the director's attempt to "piece together stories of gender discrimination and sexual violence to reveal the sheer gravity of the situation on the ground."

and "the unusual feel and texture of the film that combines the grammar of cinema, the methods of proscenium theatre and the interpretative tools of socio-political observation."

She commented on Subhadeep Dey's cinematography and PV Manikumar's colour-correction for creating "a magical visual construction", while adding that editor Amit Pal's edit "improvising the concept of time and space has included a poetic grace to the entire narrative.

In The Citizen, Critic Shoma A. Chatterji reviewed that "Mahishasura Marddini has attempted an experiment in creating an innovative form of blending a theatrical performance with a full-length feature film."

She wrote that the director had tried to "revolutionize how we talk about theatre as not only a medium of words, but that of fully realized productions with visual cues."