Rongbaaz (2013 - Bengali) Flim Review

RONGBAAZ

Starring : Dev, Koel Mallick, Rahul Dev & Others
Producer : Surinder Films Pvt. Ltd.
Presenter: Nispal Singh
Director: Raja Chanda
Music: Jeet Ganguly.
Singer: Benny Dayal & Monali Thakur.
Lyrics: Raja Chanda.

Dev is came this pujas with Rongbaaz with  Koel Mullick  who has appeared in a film for the first time after getting married. Incidentally her husband is the producer of the film.
Dev plays Raja guy who was sent to to a juvenile home after charges of murder on him and now he is after Lucky Bhai, his father’s murderer so he lands up in Bangkok in search of Lucky Bhai. He takes a job with a travel agency as a tourist guide. Madhurima(Koel) is an important client of the agency. When she comes to Bangkok with her friends, she likes the atitude of Raj and wants him at her beck and call 24 hours. Raj rescues her from time to time from Lucky Bhai’s men and eventually they even manage to get themselves marooned on an island for a few days within which time they are on every news channel as missing persons thanks to Madhu’s father who has also landed in Bangkok by that time. Madhu is taken away by her father.But later her father accepts the relationship and asks Raj to rescue Madhu when she is abducted by Lucky’s brother. Eventually Raj rescues Madhu and also takes revenge on Lucky Bhai.

The film is a typical Dev film with songs, dances, thrills and a 'little' romance. It has been shot in Bangkok, Rome and Vatican City. New generation singer Benny Dayal has sung a couple of songs for the film and also Monomoy has sung a song for this film. The film has some great stunts specially the climax sequences which will keep you glower to your seat thanks to the efforts of renowned Bollywood action director Allan Amin who makes Dev & Koel perform some extremely dangerous stunts. The film has a few foot tapping numbers in the form of ‘Love U Soniyo’, ‘O Madhu I love You’ and ‘Tui Aamar Hero’ and a special mention must be made of O Madhu I Love You which is sure to make you get up and make you dance a few steps. Kharaj Mukherjee with his antics manages a few laughs from the crowd. Rahul Dev however just doesn’t convict you enough as Lucky Bhai and it goes without saying his voice has been dubbed.

The film is a treat for all Dev fans.

O MADHU

Chander Pahar (2013 - Bengali) Flim Review

CHANDER PAHAR

Directed by   : Kamaleshwar Mukherjee

Produced by : Mahendra Soni
Shrikant Mohta

Written by   :  Bibhutibushan Bandyopadhyay

Starring       :   Dev
Gérard Rudolf 
                        Martin Cito Otto

Music by      : Indraadip Das Gupta 

Debojyoti Mishra

Cinematography: Soumik Haldar

Editing by     : Raviranjan Maitra

Distributed by: Shree Venkatesh  Films

 

Dev’s first so called ‘art’  film ‘Chander Pahar’ is considered to be one of the most important and famous adventure tales based on the exploits of a 20 yr old boy called Shankar Roychoudhury in Africa. The Novel is written By Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Dev plays Shankar in complete transformation of the Dev we know and have seen in his past films.

The film is a big time adventure film is set in the year 1909 when Shankar, a young boy from a village gets a job in a jute mill in Shymanagar, but he is an extremely adventurous man and he wants to go to explore forests and be in the wild as that kind of wild nature fascinates him and he has always thought of famous explorers to be his idols. He gets a job as a clerk with the Ugandan Railways by luck and arrives in Africa. He soon comes in to contact with various kinds of danger- lions, the black mamba, all of whom he is about to face with success and then he come across the famous explorer. Shankar sets out to locate the mine along with Alvarez who is killed by the monster . He finds the mine by accident . He carries some pebbles by mistake which are actually diamonds and after finding the remains of Gatti(another explorer), he finds instructions in Gatti’s boots which instructs anyone who finds his remains can keep the diamonds so long as the person buries Gatti. After doing so, Shankar gets lost and lands up in the Kalahari desert from where he is rescued by a survey team and he sets sail for home after recovering, but vows to come back to the cave one day.

This is the first ever Bengali adventure film made on a grand scale. The film has been shot extensively in South Africa though it has been shot in other places too and therefore the wildlife is shown in all it’s natural surroundings. as the wild animal lion, elephant, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, giraffes, the black mamba, the scorpions or the other wildlife, they are all there. In other words for most Bengalis, this is a tour of the wild and the wildlife of Africa. It also shows quite a few tribes of Africa in their natural habitat. The other aspect of the film is our Dev. This is the rebirth of our Bengali superstar. All this while he has acted in Bengali commercial flim  where he has to just fight and dance, not act. Here he is excellent as Shankar, the small town boy who realizes his dream of becoming an adventurer and he does so by surviving in the wild terrains of Africa. He never lets his dreams let go unfulfilled. His ascension to an actor is at it’s peak when he is cut off from civilization for days and he is barely surviving . At times he survives by killing a scorpion and munching on it. This is what survival does to man. That phase literally makes Dev unrecognizable (he has long hair an unkempt beard) and he plays a man who barely manages to keep his sanity alive. A big thumps up to Dev. Giving him excellent support as his friend, philosopher and guide is the ‘Bengali’ speaking Portuguese adventurer Diego Alverez (French actor Gerard Rudolf) who is top notch. He is one of the main reasons why Shankar becomes Shankar, the adventurer and one of the famous Bengali literary heroes . The cinematography of Soumik Haldar is brilliant. The wilderness of the forests or the slow motion sequences or the close shots or the long shots, or the Kalahari desert and the wilderness of South Africa is captured beautifully by Soumik Haldar.

The film might or might not appeal to ‘traditional’ Dev fans who are used to seeing him in a different style and do not enjoy wildlife and adventure, but for the rest, it will appeal highly and this is the first time that Dev will be seen and appreciable by the class mass alike. One also expected to see Dev with the python which was missing.

There are a few things which look out of place in the film like the graphics of the volcanic eruption which look amateurish and the sequence when Sankar manages to rescue Alverez by crossing a log placed across a stream with Alvarez on his shoulders. However if one can overlook these few things, this wildlife adventure about a young Bengali adventurer will surely set the box office on fire!

Take a bow, Dev for your efforts.

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Full Movie Song