Le Chakka

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Le Chakka
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Theatrical poster
Directed by Raj Chakraborty
Written byPadmanava Dasgupta
Abhimanyu Mukherjee
Produced byShyam Agarwal
Srijon Arts
Starring
CinematographySomak Mukherjee
Music by Indraadip Das Gupta
Production
company
Release date
  • 10 June 2010 (2010-06-10)
Running time
134:05 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Le Chakka (English: Take a Sixer) is a 2010 Indian Bengali-language romance drama film co-written and directed by Raj Chakraborty. It casts Dev, Ritwick Chakraborty and Payel Sarkar in lead roles and supporting roles by Kharaj Mukherjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Deepankar De, Supriyo Dutta, Laboni Sarkar, Biswanath Basu. [1] The film's soundtrack and background score was composed by Indraadip Das Gupta. [2] It is a remake of the Tamil movie Chennai 600028.

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Le Chakka marks the 2nd collaboration between Dev and Raj Chakraborty after Challenge(2009). The film received positive reviews from the audiences, while critics were appraisal of the portrayal of the famous 'Rock culture' in North Kolkata; differences between North and South Kolkata; 'Khep Khela', a popular term of cricket taken places in North Kolkata. [3]

Plot

11 Bullets is a very bad cricket team of North Kolkata. The team is formed with the people of the locality, who have various professions. The film starts with a match between 11 Bullets and a cricket team of South Kolkata. The hero, named Abir, alone smashes 11 Bullets. The team members of 11 Bullets are then abused by the people of their locality. In the meantime, Abir comes with his family to stay at Dorjipara, which is the locality of 11 Bullets. But, due to huge cultural deference between North Kolkata and South Kolkata, Abir becomes irritated to stay over there. The niece of the landlord of Abir's tenant house, stars having regular quarrels with Abir. Then, Abir discovers that a political leader is trying to grab Dorjipara, and for that, the leader wants the tenant house, which the landlord does not want to sell. When Abir teaches the 11 Bullets people, that without protesting against these political evils, they will not be able to survive, slowly, those people come close to Abir, and vice versa. Then slowly, Abir gets intimate with Rani, which her brother Rajat does not like. A Person, Shankar, who is attached to that leader comes and gets involved with the unmarried, frustrated, elder sister of Rani, named Ratna. But, when Shankar says that, he wants to marry Rani, not Ratna. Then Ratna kills herself. Ultimately, when the party leaders come to take control over Dorjipara, Abir throws a challenge of a cricket match, which is going to decide, who's going to get control over the house. 11 Bullets have a tensed and marvelous win, and Abir has a romantic win over Rani.

Cast

Soundtrack

Le Chakka
Soundtrack album by
Released14 May 2010 (2010-05-14)
Recorded2010
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Label Eskay Movies

The film score of the film as well as the soundtrack was scored by Indraadip Das Gupta. The soundtrack, featuring 5 tracks overall, was released on 14 May 2010 in India. The lyrics were written by Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijit Mukherjee.

TrackSongSinger(s)Duration (min:sec)LyricistNotes
1"You And Me" Shaan, June Banerjee 4:56 Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato
2"Shabba Rabba Reeba Ru" Kunal Ganjawalla, Monali Thakur 5:00Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato
3"Ali Maula" Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan, Shahadab Hussain 6:04Priyo Chattopadhyay
4"Ekta Bindaas Para"Kunal Ganjawalla, Shahdab Hussain, Prasenjit Mukherjee4:38Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato
5"Le Chakka"Kunal Ganjawalla, Prasenjit Mukherjee4:24Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato

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