Jole Jongole

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Jole Jongole
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Bengali জলে জঙ্গলে
Directed byNitish Roy
Written byNitish Roy
Debaditya Dutta
Produced bySurajit Das
Kallol Das
Ranjan Bhattacharjee (Executive Producer)
Starring Mithun Chakraborty
Jackie Shroff
Ashish Vidyarthi
Tinnu Anand
CinematographyBadal Sarkar
Edited by Rabiranjan Maitra
Music by Jeet Gannguli
Production
company
Princes Art Production
Release date
  • 5 January 2018 (2018-01-05)
Running time
145 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Jole Jongole is a 2018 Indian Bengali-language science fiction thriller film directed by Nitish Roy, who was the production designer [1] for the Hollywood horror film Crocodile 2: Death Swamp.

Contents

The film stars Mithun Chakraborty as a 'mad' scientist who wants to bring back prehistoric creatures, perished millions of years ago from the earth as he is trying to expand the brain of crocodiles. Jackie Shroff stars as the antagonist who wants to take control of dangerous crocodiles for his own park.

A few scenes of the film were shot in Prayag Film City in West Midnapore, and shooting was completed by early 2012, [2] [3] [4] but got stuck in development hell and was finally released on 6 January 2018.

Plot

The film is based on the experiment done by a mad scientist (Mithun) who comes up with a lovable crocodile. Like the dolphins, this crocodile was implanted with intelligence. At this point, an NRI (Jackie) eyes this project as he wants to build his own Jurassic Park and wants to get control on this crocodile.

Cast

Soundtrack

Jole Jongole
Soundtrack album by
Released2018
Recorded2017
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Princes Art Production
Producer
Jeet Gannguli chronology
Jio Pagla
(2017)
Jole Jongole
(2018)
Phir Se...
(2018)
Singles from Jole Jongole
  1. "Premer Infection (Dil ki Kite)"
    Released: 8 Jan 2018
  2. "College Er Canteen E Party Jomabo"
    Released: 9 Jan 2018
  3. "Banzara Yeh Dil"
    Released: 10 Jan 2018
  4. "Ei Mon"
    Released: 12 Jan 2018

All lyrics are written by Priyo Chatterjee; all music is composed by Jeet Gannguli.

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Premer Infection (Dil ki Kite)" Aditi Singh Sharma, Neeraj Shridhar 4:09
2."College Er Canteen E Party Jomabo"Jeet Gannguli3:16
3."Banzara Yeh Dil" Sunidhi Chauhan, Rana Mazumdar 4:14
4."Ei Mon" Monali Thakur, Shaan 3:53

Remake

The film will be remade in Hindi as Gehra Paani with a higher budget than the Bengali version. For the Hindi version, the cast and location will remain same except Mithun Chakraborty, who will be replaced by Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Both the versions are being made at a budget of 25 crore (US$3.1 million) and would be shot in the Sunderban. [7] [8] [9]

Critical reception

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