Game (2014 film)

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Directed by Baba Yadav
Screenplay by N.K. Salil
Story byAR Murugadoss
Based on Thuppakki (Tamil)
Produced by Reliance Entertainment
Grassroot Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
Starring Jeet
Subhashree Ganguly
CinematographyP.Shelva Kumar
Edited byMD Kalam
Music by Jeet Gannguli
Production
companies
Distributed by Reliance Entertainment
Grassroot Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
Release date
  • 30 May 2014 (2014-05-30)
Running time
161 minutes
Country India
Language Bangla
Box office₹8.95 crore [1]

Game is a 2014 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film directed by Baba Yadav [2] and produced and distributed by Reliance Entertainment and Grassroot Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. The film features actors Jeet, Subhashree Ganguly and Saurav Chakraborty in the lead roles. Music of the film has been composed by Jeet Gannguli. The film is a remake of the 2012 Tamil film Thuppakki . [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Plot

Abhimanyu Chatterjee, a captain in the Indian Army, returns to Kolkata from Kashmir on vacation. On his arrival, his parents and younger sisters force him to see Trisha, who they choose for him to be married to. At the bride-viewing ceremony, Abhimanyu makes up excuses to avoid marrying her, which includes commenting about her being old-fashioned. On the contrary, Trisha is a college-level boxer, which is completely modern in her outlook. Abhimanyu realises this and proposes to her, which she reciprocates.

One day, while travelling around the city with his police officer-friend Santilal, Abhimanyu witnesses the explosion of a bus in which they had travelled. He manages to capture the man who laid the bomb, but he escapes from the hospital where he was kept under custody. kidnaps the bomber again, and also forces the police officer who helped the bomber's escape, to commit suicide. Abhimanyu soon learns that the bomber is a mere executor, a sleeper cell, whose only role was to plant the bomb. He also discovers that the Islamic terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, which the bomber belongs to, has planned various such attacks in the city in a couple of days. Enlisting the help of his fellow Army men and Shantilal, Abhimanyu manages to thwart these attacks and kill the sleeper cell leader's brother and eleven other terrorists, including the first sleeper cell.

When the leader of the terrorist group learns about the role of Abhimanyu in the failure of the terrorist attack, he begins to target the families of the army men, except Abhimanyu, by kidnapping someone close to them. When Abhimanyu realises the plan, he substitutes one of the people to be kidnapped, with his younger sister . Using his pet dog and his sister's Dupatta, he manages to reach the terrorists' hideout, rescuing his sister, who was about to be killed after Abhimanyu's bluff was exposed, and the other victims and eliminating the terrorists assembled there. Asif Ali, the second-in-command of the sleeper cells, is captured and killed by Abhimanyu.

When this attack fails, the terrorist leader decides to target Abhimanyu himself. He asks Abhimanyu to surrender to him or else there would be more terrorist attacks. Abhimanyu decides to sacrifice his life and devises a plan with his fellow army men. Ahimanyu meets the leader in a ship, which has been rigged with a bomb planted by Abhimanyu's friend. When he learns about the leader's plan, however, which is to expose Abhimanyu's army team as terrorists and knowing about a Muslim terrorist in the Indian defence — Vinod Sharma, he fights the leader and escapes with him in a boat. After the ship explodes, he kills the leader. Abhimanyu confronts Vinod Sharma and forces him to commit suicide, and later returns to Kashmir with his team.

Cast

Production

The film's production commenced in 2013, and The soundtrack is composed by Jeet Gannguli, The trailer of the Game released on 2 May 2014 and got a bumper response both from critics and the audience. According to the director Baba Yadav, Jeet's role is that of an Army officer for which Jeet lost some weight to fit in the role and to look 6 years younger from his real biological age. Jeet also sported a crew-cut hairstyle for his role. Whilst Subhasree will play the role of boxer and Abhimanyu (Jeet's) love interest, Trisha.

Soundtrack

Game: He Plays To Win
Soundtrack album by
Released23 May 2014
Recorded2014
Genre Feature film soundtrack
LanguageBengali
Label T-Series
Producer Reliance Entertainment
Jeet Gannguli chronology
Chirodini Tumi Je Amar 2
(2014)
Game: He Plays To Win
(2014)
Arundhati
(2014)
Singles from Game: He Plays To Win
  1. "Bum Chiki Chikni Chiki"
    Released: 10 Apr 2014
  2. "Game (Title Track)"
    Released: 24 Apr 2014
  3. "Ore Manwa Re"
    Released: 8 May 2014
  4. "Party All Night"
    Released: 20 May 2014
TrackSongSinger(s)DurationLyricist
1"Game (Title Track)" Javed Ali 03:48 Raja Chanda
2"Bum Chiki Chikni Chiki" Nakash Aziz and Akriti Kakkar 03:47 Jalsha Movies Production Team
3"Ore Manwa Re" Arijit Singh and Akriti Kakkar04:37Prasen (Prasenjit Mukherjee)
4"Party All Night" Benny Dayal and Neeti Mohan 03:29Jalsha Movies Production Team

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