Minister Fatakeshto is a 2007 Bengali political action film directed by Swapan Saha and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. It is the sequel to MLA Fatakeshto (2006), and the second installment of the Fatakeshto series. The film stars Mithun Chakraborty, Koel Mallick, and Soumitra Chatterjee reprising their roles from the previous film with George Baker, Deepankar De, Shankar Chakraborty and Locket Chatterjee playing pivotal roles. The screenplay and the dialogues were written by N.K Salil, with sountrack composed by Jeet Gannguli and action sequences designed by Judo Ramu. The film was a super-hit in the box office.
Koel Mallick is an Indian actress who appears in Bengali films. She is the daughter of actor Ranjit Mallick and Deepa Mallick. She made her film debut with Nater Guru (2003) opposite Jeet, which was a box office-success. Some of her popular films are Shubhodrishti (2005), Mon Mane Na (2008), Premer Kahini (2008), Paglu (2011), Paglu 2 (2012), Rangbaaz (2013), Arundhati (2014) and Besh Korechi Prem Korechi (2015).
Jeetendra Madnani, mononymously known as Jeet, is an Indian actor, film producer, singer, entrepreneur and television presenter known for his work in Bengali cinema. He owns the production houses "Grassroot Entertainment" and "Jeetz Filmworks". He is the Executive Secretary of "West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum" and is one of the few actors known for doing commercial action films in Tollywood.
Anandalok Puraskar or Anandalok Awards ceremony is an award ceremony for Bengali film in India. The Anandalok, only film magazine in Bengali language, published from Ananda Publishers and Ananda Bazar Patrika presents this award (Puraskar). The magazine was started on 25 January 1975 and the awards ceremony was started in 1998.
Manik is a Bengali action drama film released in 2005. It was written and directed by Probhat Roy and chief assistant director was Madhuchhanda Sengupta, the movie featured Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick. This film was shot at Kalimpong Golf Course.
Bandhan (transl. Bond) is a 2004 Indian Bengali language romantic-drama film co-written and directed by Rabi Kinnagi. Produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, it stars Jeet, Koel Mallick and Victor Banerjee in the lead role. The film follows Ronny, an innocent child living with his father and growing up in foreign, often misses his dead mother Meena. After getting invited in India on the occasion of a marriage ceremony of his mother's cousin in India, he meets his maternal aunt Reena, who resembles his mother as they were the twins. Then Ronny thinks Reena to be his mother and wants his father to marry her.
Yuddho is a 2005 Indian Bengali language vigilante action-thriller film written and directed by Rabi Kinnagi. Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, it stars Mithun Chakraborty and Jeet, two biggest superstars of Bengal for the first time together, along with Debashree Roy, Koel Mallick, Rajatava Dutta, Bharat Kaul, Kaushik Banerjee and Sumit Ganguly. The story revolves around a police officer who is falsely accused of murdering his wife and imprisoned as he has been investigating a rape case that involves the younger brother of a powerful MLA. The officer then manages to evade the prison and get his revenge.
Mon Mane Na is a 2008 Indian Bengali-language romance film directed by Sujit Guha. It was Dev's fourth movie altogether and his second movie with actress Koel Mallick. This movie is a remake of the 1995 American romantic comedy movie French Kiss. It also has a few scenes from the Hindi movies Jab We Met, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and from Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin. It was loosely based on Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha.
Nawab Nandini is a 2007 Romantic Bengali film directed by Haranath Chakraborty, story written by Anjan Choudhury. The film is starring Hiran, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Sandhya Roy. This movie is the debutant of Hiran.
Josh is a 2010 Indian Bengali language action masala film directed by Ravi Kinagi. Jointly produced by Shrikant Mohta and Nispal Singh under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films respectively, the film stars Jeet, Srabanti Chatterjee, Tapas Paul, Puneet Issar, Laboni Sarkar, Supriyo Dutta, Anshuman Gupta, Sandhita Chatterjee and Haradhan Bandyopadhyay in lead roles. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli and Samidh-Rishi, while the background score was by S.P Venkatesh. It follows around Indra, a talented engineering student with a little carefree attitude, taking revenges after being witness of the violent murder of his best friend Rajib and his family excluding his sister Anuradha as they protested and fought against the land scams and torture done on the farmers by a landlord as well as a criminal named Rudra, in Prantik, near Bolpur.
Tulkalam (trans...Danger) is a 2007 Indian Bengali-language political action film directed by Haranath Chakraborty. The screenplay and story was written by Anjan Chowdhury, before his death. Produced by Pijush Saha, under the banner of Prince Entertainment P4, it stars Mithun Chakraborty, Rachana Banerjee, Rajatava Dutta, Hara Patnaik, Paoli Dam and Amitabh Bhattacharya in lead roles, with Biplab Chatterjee and Ramen Roychowdhury in cameo appearances. Inspired from the Tata-nano controversy, it plots the land scams taking place at Haridebpur, where the MLA Abinash Mukherjee and his brother in law Haripada Samanta tries to take over all the lands of the farmers as they made a deal with the U.B company to make factories on the lands. Another leader of the area, Satyabrata Roy plans to undertake the lands by protesting against Mukherjee. Then all on a sudden, a mysterious man, Toofan comes to the village to dismiss the deal and to stop the dangerous situation created by the political leaders.The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ashok-Raj, while the dialogues were written by N.K Salil.
Santrash is a 2003 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film co written and directed by Narayan Roy, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Madhabi Mukherjee, Ranjit Mallick.
Dui Prithibi is a 2010 Bengali road drama movie directed by Raj Chakraborty and stars Jeet, Dev, Koel Mallick and Barkha Bisht Sengupta in the lead roles. It was the highest grossing Bengali film of 2010. A remake of the Telugu film Gamyam, Dui Prithibi brought two of the biggest stars of Bengali cinema, Jeet and Dev, together for the only time on the celluloid.
Paglu is a 2011 Indian Bengali-language action film directed by Rajib Biswas. Produced by Surinder Films, the fillm stars Dev, Koel Mallick and Rajatava Dutta in lead roles. The screenplay and the dialogues were written by N.K Salil, with the songs composed by Jeet Gannguli. The cinematography was handled by Kumud Verma, action and dance sequences were choreographed by Judo Ramu and Baba Yadav respectively. The film follows the story of how a college student falls in love with a non resident Indian girl. The film successfully ran more than 150 days in West Bengal and was declared as all-time blockbuster at the box office and broke the collection of the 2002 film Saathi and was the highest grossing Bengali movie until the 2013 film Chander Pahar.
Rajatava Dutta is an Indian actor who appears in Bengali, Hindi and English films. He is often regarded as one of the most celebrated and respected Bengali actors of his generation. In a career spanning over three decades, on one hand he has received popularity for playing negative characters in commercially successful films like MLA Fatakeshto, Challenge, Paglu, Boss etc. and on the other hand he has gained critical praise for his versatile acting performances in critically acclaimed films like Paromitar Ekdin, Open Tee Bioscope, Bogla Mama Jug Jug Jiyo etc and in the web-series Byadh. He has been a judge on the Zee Bangla reality show Mirakkel.
Le Halua Le is a 2012 Indian Bengali-language comedy film directed by Raja Chanda, starring Mithun Chakraborty. The film is the remake of successful Malayalam language film Poochakkoru Mookkuthi directed by Priyadarshan.
Paglu 2 is a 2012 Indian Bengali romantic action comedy film directed by Sujit Mondal starring Dev and Koel Mallick in lead roles. This is the sequel to the Paglu series but storywise not a sequel of Paglu. A major portion of this movie has been shot in Dubai. This film is a remake of 2011 Telugu film Kandireega, directed by Santosh Srinivas and starring Ram and Hansika Motwani, which was remade in 2014 as Main Tera Hero starring Varun Dhawan, Ileana D'Cruz, Nargis Fakhri.
Shubhodrishti is a 2005 Bengali romance film directed by Prabhat Roy and Chief assistant director was Madhuchhanda Sengupta. The film was produced under the banner of Rajshri Productions & Shree Venkatesh Films. The film features popular Bengali actors Jeet and Koel Mallick in the lead roles. Jeet Gannguli composed the music for the film. It was the fifth consecutive film of Jeet and Koel Mallick together. This film attracted huge positive responses from the audiences around West Bengal. The film became a superhit at box office as it clearly portrayed Bengali culture and traditions and given a lucid image how Bengali weddings take place. The film was immensely popular during its release with chartbuster songs.
Hero is a 2006 Indian Bengali-language romantic action film directed by Swapan Saha. This film music was composed by Jeet Ganguly.This film released under the banner of Surinder Films. It is a remake of the 2002 Kannada film Appu.
Ajab Gayer Ajab Katha is a Bengali language fantasy comedy film directed by Tapan Sinha based on a novel Nabiganjer Daityo of Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay. This film was released in 1998 in the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. This was the last complete movie made by director Tapan Sinha.
