Rainbow Jelly (Bengali: রেনবো জেলি) is a 2018 Bengali language Indian food fantasy film for children, written and directed by Soukarya Ghosal and starring Sreelekha Mitra, Kaushik Sen, Shantilal Mukherjee and introducing Mahabrata Basu and Anumegha Banerjee.
The story revolves around a young boy with marginal IQ whose life changes dramatically when he begins to experience the different expressions of food that fill the taste buds and have varied reactions on people who savour them.
[1] Rainbow Jelly is the first-ever attempt in Food Fantasy Film genres, perhaps India’s first, made in Bengali language.
The story of the film is an outcome of Ghosal's two years of research on Taste Theory & Ayurveda.
The innocent boy believes his uncle till a mysterious woman 'Poripishi'(aunt fairy) comes to him & claims, that she only can turn his dream of treasure true.
For which she would secretly cook seven different dishes of food on behalf of Ghoton, of 7 different tastes ie, Sweet, Sour, Salty, Spicy, Pungent, Astringent & Bitter for the coming 7 days.
[5][6][7] The Music of the film is composed by Soukarya Ghosal, Nabarun Bose and Megh Banerjee.
'Rainbow Jelly got 27 shows in the opening week' at Nandan, film and cultural centre in Kolkata, India.