Naxal is a 2015 Indian Bengali-language vigilante thriller film directed by Debaditya Bandyopadhyay, starring Mithun Chakraborty and Dhritiman Chatterjee in pivotal roles.[1][2][3][4]
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| Directed by | Debaditya Bandyopadhyay |
| Written by | Debaditya Bandhyopadhyay |
| Screenplay by | Padmanabha Dasgupta Pulok Das |
| Story by | Debaditya Bandhyopadhyay |
| Produced by | Mainakh Saha, Blue Coffee Moviez & Entertainment In association with The Kraft House |
| Starring | Mithun Chakraborty Dhritiman Chatterjee Gargi Roychowdhury Shankar Chakraborty |
| Cinematography | Bijoy Anand |
| Edited by | Md. Kalam |
| Music by | Rupam Islam & Allan Ao |
| Distributed by | The Kraft House |
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Running time | 1 Hour 49 Minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
The backdrop of the film is the Naxal Amol or Naxal Period. It was a period in the history of the state of West Bengal that began with the infiltration of the ideas of the socialist movements in the western world (especially Latin America) into the psyche of many Bengali youths. Mithun Chakraborty plays the lead role in this film as a Naxalite.[5][6][7]
Plot
edit1971: The story opens on the 21st May with the escaping of a few Naxalite youths. The most prominent among them is Anirban Sen. On that day, one of them named Samar dies while Anirban and their leader Sankar Da go absconding.
2013: After nearly 42 years, one fine morning a FAX arrives at the Kolkata Metro Railways Headquarters. It says that today Anirban will commit suicide under the last Metro. Questions regarding his identity and demands start emerging as the news has taken centre stage in the city. This news shake the entire city from Kolkata Police Headquarters (Lalbazar) to the news channels, while Anirban rattles the administration with one FAX after the other. On the other hand, Siddhartha Chowdhury, CEO of the number-one Bengali News Channel engages himself in using this incident to boost his channel's TRP. Shubhankar, a journalist with Siddhartha's channel, while searching for Anirban, discovers that one of those persons who went missing on 21 May 1971, Sankar Da is still alive and is living in Kolkata with a new name, who was none other than Siddhartha Chowdhury himself. Siddhartha, in the meanwhile, announces that he will telecast Anirban's Suicide LIVE on television, which in turn has plummeted the commercial value of his channel. On the other way, he realises that Anirban knows a lot about him after hearing the story from Anirban, comes to realise that Anirban is to be finished at any cost, and so he takes his revolver out from safety locker to finish him off, making to prove that he was a ruthless criminal, and not a real hero.
Then, how Anirban and Siddhartha settle their scores among themselves in Maidan metro station and Anirban avenge the death of his true friends after 42 years, killing Siddhartha and thus becoming a hero, forms the rest of the story.
Cast
edit- Mithun Chakraborty as Anirban Sen[8]
- Pathikrit Basu as teenage Anirban Sen
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Siddhartha Chowdhury (Owner of a News Channel)/ Shankar Da (in 1971)
- Gargi Roychowdhury as Reena Sen
- Shankar Chakraborty as Minister Arijit Mitra
- Nishita Goswami
- Kapil Bora as Rohoni sen
- Kanchana Moitra
- Padmanabha Dasgupta
- Parthosarathi Deb
- Sagnik
References
edit- ^ "Mithun to play a Naxal in upcoming Bengali film, but won't promote it". Hindustan Times. 28 May 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Naxal Theatrical Trailer - Bengali Movie 2015". Bangla Movies.
- ^ "Mahurat of Naxal takes place". Gomolo. 5 February 2014.
- ^ "Filmmaker: Films on Naxalite movement need realism-fiction balance". NYOOOZ. 24 May 2015.
- ^ "Mithun Chakraborty turns a Naxalite". The Times of India. 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Mithun Chakroborty a Naxalite?". Sahara Samay.
- ^ "Naxal will see Mithun Chakrabarty and Dhritiman Chatterjee in pivotal roles". Tollywood Dhamaka. 19 February 2014.
- ^ "Mithun to play a Naxal in upcoming Bengali film, but won't promote it". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.