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Directed by | Raja Chanda |
Written by | NK Salil |
Produced by | Srikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni of Shree Venkatesh Films |
Starring | Dev Pooja Bose Tapas Paul Ashish Vidyarthi Kharaj Mukherjee |
Cinematography | Shailesh av Awasthhi |
Edited by | Saikat Sengupta, Rabi Ranjan Maitra, Jahidul Islam Shuvo |
Music by | Jeet Gannguli Savvy |
Production company | Shree Venkatesh Films |
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Running time | 161:38 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Challenge 2 is a 2012 Indian Bengali language action thriller film co-written and directed by Raja Chanda. The story, screenplay and dialogues of the film were written by N.K Salil, which itself is also inspired from German film Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, it stars Dev and Puja Banerjee in lead roles, alongside Tapas Paul, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajatava Dutta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Subhasish Mukherjee, Kaushik Chakraborty, Sumit Ganguly, Debesh Roy Chowdhury and Surajit Sen in pivotal roles, with Biswanath Basu and Labani Sarkar in guest appearance. The film is a spiritual sequel to the 2009 film Challenge , but contains a very different storyline. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli and Savvy (marking his debut as a composer), while the background score was by S.P Venkatesh. It revolves around an undercover officer as well as IPS Abhiraj Roy, who is on a mission to bring down the dreaded don Guru Nayak. But all on a sudden tragically he transforms into an MLA to fulfill his father's wish, who was in coma after meeting an conspiring accident as he was an honest and celebrated politician amongst the masses.
Debraj Roy is an independent MLA of the constituency of Debnagar, which is named after him, in West Bengal, and is regarded as a champion for the poor and one who have idealistic values. When a truck collides with the car his brother Angshuman Roy and he are in, Debraj goes into a coma. Except for his family, everyone else presumes that he is killed in the accident. Years later, his son Abhiraj "Abhi" Roy is a police officer in Mumbai who fights against the mafia and is on a mission to apprehend a mafia don Guru Nayak who is involved in illegal drug trade, extortion and arms trafficking.
When he heads to Kuala Lumpur in an undercover operation, he meets Pooja, the daughter of Abhi's senior police officer, Madhusudan Bakshi and soon falls in love with her. She initially rejects his advances which makes him give up. However, he is successful in the undercover operation and arrests Nayak's brother Bunty. After returning to India, he again meets Pooja and, to his surprise, she reciprocates his feelings. In an attempt to arrest Nayak, Bunty and the police commissioner is killed and Debraj's loyal follower Shivu reveals to Abhi that Nayak, along with Debraj's rival, Apurba Ghosh, and Debraj's other followers including Jagganath and Krishnakanto Mitro were behind Debraj's accident, which makes Abhi plot to kill them all.
When Debraj comes out of the coma, the doctors who treated him advise his family that his life is at risk if he encounters or hears anything upsetting, disturbing or shocking. Abhi hides the events surrounding the accident and shifts his family to his previously abandoned mansion which is now being used for film-making. Abhi creates a dummy political set-up at this mansion. In the guise of a reality television program, Abhi tricks an aspiring but unsuccessful film actor Swarnakamal by making him believe that the television show is being sponsored by actor Mithun Chakraborty's television show, and that Mithun Chakraborty wants to offer Swarnakamal very high remuneration for his realistic performance in the show. On the other hand, an aspiring actor Premjit and Apurba Ghosh are tricked by Abhi with a real estate business deal to exploit his criminal nexus.
Abhi keeps this drama under wraps from Debraj by making him believe that Abhi is also an MLA revered by people fulfilling his father's wishes. He marries Pooja after gaining her family's consent much to Debraj's delight. Meanwhile, Abhi manages to kill Jogonnath and Apurba without the knowledge of anybody while Debraj believes that they died due to ailments. Nayak reaches Kolkata to kill Abhi and Abhi's drama is exposed before everybody except Debraj. Abhi killed Guru Nayak's gang members and others in an encounter while Nayak is later killed in a Ramlila event. Debraj too learns of Abhi's drama and is happy for the affection his son showed on him.
The film released on 19 October 2012 (Durga panchami) just before the Durga Pujo weekend in 270 theatres across India including West Bengal, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh [ citation needed ] [1] [2] and is being screened in both single screen and multiplexes. According to Producer Mr. Mahendra Soni – this is the first time a non-double-version Bengali flick has been released in 270 theatres across the country and continues its run in the non-niche segment of core viewers outside Bengal. [3]
A critic from The Times of India wrote that "Over all, during this Devipokkho this film is a good option to fill-up the spare time you’ll get in between pandal-hopping". [4]
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Released | October 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Language | Bengali | |||
Label | SVF | |||
Producer | Shree Venkatesh Films | |||
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Jeet Gannguli chronology | ||||
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Savvy Gupta chronology | ||||
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The soundtrack of the film was scored by Jeet Gannguli and Savvy.
Track | Song | Singer(s) | Duration (min:sec) | Music | Lyricist |
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1 | "Challenge Nibi Na Sala" | Suraj Jagan | 4:20 | Jeet Gannguli | Prasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee) |
2 | "Police Chorer Preme Poreche" | Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Akriti Kakkar | 4:11 | Jeet Gannguli | Raja Chanda |
3 | "Elo Je Maa" | Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Shreya Ghoshal | 5:07 | Jeet Gannguli | Priyo Chattopadhyay,Raja Chanda |
4 | "Pyaar Ka Bukhar" | Suraj Jagan | 3:22 | Savvy | Savvy |
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