Luchakali

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Luchakali
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Directed by Susant Mani
Written by Susant Mani
Produced byNilakantha Das
Starring Babushaan
Shriya Jha
Samaresh Routray
Ajit Das
Bijay Mohanty
CinematographyAbhiram Mishra
Edited byBiren Mohanty
Music byAnbu Selvam
Production
company
Chakadola Production
Distributed byChakadola Production
Release date
  • 30 March 2012 (2012-03-30)
Running time
142 (min)
CountryIndia
LanguageOdia

Luchakali (English: Hide and seek) is an Odia drama and thriller film released on 30 March 2012. it features Babushaan, Shriya Jha, Samaresh Routray and Ajit Das in key roles with original music by Anbu Selvam. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is partially inspired by Hollywood thriller Sleeping with the Enemy.

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Synopsis

Tanmay Mohanty (Babushan) is a sculpturist and deadly love with Monalisa Das (Sherya Jha). Tanmay is an orphan and Monalisa takes care of everything in the life of Tanmay. Oneday Monalisa's father become blind in an accident. To manage the poor financial condition of the family, Monalisa's step-mother agrees to the marriage proposal by one Kalidas Patnaik (Samaresh Routray [5] ) with Monalisa with a consideration of heavy amount offered by Kalidas. Kalidas ia poet and has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder symptoms. After Kalidas's marriage with Monalisa, he tries to torture her a lot. While they are traveling in a boat, Monalisa escapes by jumping into water.

Kalidas tries to search Monalisa everywhere but can't find her. in the meanwhile Tanmay rescue Monalisa from water and keeps her in a secret place. Meanwhile, he tries to take revenge upon Kalidas. When Kalidas with the help of Police Inspector Mohan (Bijay Mohanty) traces their whereabouts, Tanmay and Monalisa escapes from the scene. At last when Kalidas tries to kill Monalisa, Tanmay reaches the scene, saves Monalisa by killing Kalidas.

Cast

filming

The film is shot at various locations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Dhenkanal. [6]

Review

The film generally received positive reviews from critics especially for Samaresh Routray. FullOrissa gave it 3 out of 5 and commented "It seems like Samaresh has shared this script with Susant Mani only for winning an award in the next upcoming celebrity award shows. Susant Mani as usual have done a great job in Luchakali. The movie is technically well driven, The Thrillers in this movie are one of its type in Oriya Movie Industry. ". [7] Odisha Today mentioned " Director Susant Mani, who is also written the script, made few experiment in the plot to give a different taste, a suspense thriller." [8] The New Indian Express quoted "The movie has a lot of special effects to keep the thrill quotient up. Even as the movie scores high on technical aspects, there are some loose ends to the music. Compared to Sushant’s previous hit Chocolate, the music in Luchakali is slow. The film’s music has been scored by Anbu Selvan who happens to be the guitarist of A R Rahman. Goodly Rath’s soulful musical touch in Sushant’s Chocolate is missing this time." [9]

Soundtrack

The Music for the film is composed by Anbu Selvam

SongLyricsSinger(s)
Gumsum Gumsum Akhi ToraBapu GoswamiRatikant Satapathy, Tapu Misra
A Deha Barafa reBapu Goswami Samaresh Routray, Mahalaxmi Iyer
Luha Sathe BandhanaBapu Goswami Babushan, Tapu Misra
Akasharu Kichhi Megha AniBapu Goswami Babushan, Tapu Misra
Luchakali (title song)Bapu Goswami Ritu Pathak

[10] [11] [12]

Box office

The film did not well in the box office and was declared a disaster. [13]

Awards

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