Awara (film)

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Awara
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Directed by Ravi Kinnagi
Screenplay by N.K. Salil
Story by Akula Siva
Produced by Shree Venkatesh Films
Starring Jeet
Sayantika Banerjee
Mukul Dev
Ashish Vidyarthi
CinematographyMohan Verma
Edited byMohammad Kalam
Music by Jeet Gannguli
Production
company
Distributed by Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date
  • 13 July 2012 (2012-07-13)
Running time
160 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Awara is a 2012 Indian Bengali language action masala film directed by Ravi Kinagi. [1] Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films this film stars Jeet and Sayantika Banerjee in lead roles. In this film Kharaj Mukherjee as Madan impressed the audience. The film is placed List of highest-grossing Bengali films. [2] [3] It is a remake of the 2008 Telugu movie Krishna having Ravi Teja and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles.

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Plot

The film is about Surya Narayan (Jeet) who was once a software engineer but quits his job to give it to his poor friend and is unemployed in the city of Cooch Behar. Poulomi (Sayantika Banerjee) is a girl from Kolkata who studies in college and comes to Cooch Behar for her vacation to stay with her elder brother Madan Mohan (Kharaj Mukherjee) and his wife. Surya falls in love with Poulomi at first sight in Ransh Mela and starts chasing her to win her heart and enters the upper portion of their house as tenants with his elder brother, Upendra Narayan (Biswajit Chakraborty) and sister in law (Tulika Basu). In this process Surya will have clash with local rowdy Shanatan Panja (Tamal Roychowdhury). Mistaking him to be one tapori, Poulomi hates him first but later on she realizes his true nature . She returns to Kolkata and lives with her older brother (Ashish Vidyarthi), a former builder and now a very powerful rowdy who is very possessive and protective about his sister. Surya follows Poulomi to Kolkata and works his way into their house with the help of Madan Mohan and finally both of them confess their love. There, Surya knows the flashback of Poulomi and how she is being chased by the notorious and cruel Tony Bharadwaj (Mukul Dev) assisted by his uncle (Supriyo Dutta) for marriage. Surya fights Tony, Poulomi's older brother kills Tony, and Surya marries Poulomi.

Cast

ACTORROLE
Jeet Surya Narayan/Surya
Sayantika Poulomi
Mukul Dev Tony Bharadwaj, who controls all the local MLAs and ministers
Ashish Vidyarthi Indrajit
Kharaj Mukherjee Madan Mohan
Kamalika Banerjee Madan Mohan's wife
Supriyo Dutta Gunodhar Chakraborty, Tony's uncle
Biswajit Chakraborty
Tulika BoseSurya's sister-in-law (Upendra's wife)
Biswanath Basu Surya's friend
Tamal Roy Chowdhury Sanatan Panja
Subhasish Mukherjee The man who gives rooms for rent to Surya and Poulami
Mousumi Das Prashanta's daughter
Rintu Dey Bubai; Upendra's son and Surya's Nephew
Rajat Ganguly Prashanta, Chairman of the Municipal Corporation
Arun Banerjee Advocate Dulal Bhowmik

Soundtrack

All music is composed by Jeet Gannguli, Dev Sen

Awara
Soundtrack album by
Jeet Gannguli, Dev Sen
Released13 July 2012
Recorded2012
Genre Feature film soundtrack
LanguageBengali
Label SVF
Producer Shree Venkatesh Films
Singles from Awara
  1. "Awara (title track)"
    Released: 12 Jun 2012
  2. "Porle Mone"
    Released: 22 Jun 2012
  3. "Moner Radio"
    Released: 27 Jun 2012
  4. "Phool Koli"
    Released: 3 Jul 2012
  5. "Sarunsa"
    Released: 22 August 2012
  6. "Ebar Beshi Hobe Na"
    Released: 5 September 2012
  7. "Moner Radio (female)"
    Released: 15 November 2012
Track listing
No.TitleMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Porle Mone"Jeet GannguliJeet Gannguli4:29
2."Moner Radio"Jeet GannguliJeet Gannguli, Shilpa Rao 2:50
3."Phool Koli"Dev SenPrasenjit Mallick, Dev Sen3:42
4."Awara (Title Track)"Dev SenPrasenjit Mallick, Megha Bhardwaj4:08

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