Password (2019 Bengali film)

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Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Written byRana Mukherjee
Produced by Dev Adhikari
Gurupada Adhikari
Sandeep Agarwal
Starring Dev
Parambrata Chatterjee
Paoli Dam
Rukmini Maitra
Adrit Roy
Trina Saha
Cinematography Avik Mukhopadhyay
Edited by Raviranjan Maitra
Music by Savvy
Production
company
Distributed byDev Entertainment Ventures
Echo Entertainment
Release date
  • 2 October 2019 (2019-10-02)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Bengali

Password is a 2019 Indian Bengali-language vigilante action thriller film directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee. The film starring Dev, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Paoli Dam, Rukmini Maitra while Adrit Roy and Trina Saha played supporting roles. The film revolves around the dark side of social networking, and deals with stealing of password and privacy issue.It was released on 2 October 2019. Upon release, the film received critical acclaim, where critics praised the concept, action sequences, visual effects, message, music and cast performances. Despite receiving critical acclaim, the film didn't managed to do well at the box-office. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

A conscientious police officer trying to track down a criminal who is hell bent on hacking into vital information and destroying human lives, finds himself in a web of violence, deceit, and double crossing, as well as shades of pathos in the life of criminals. To destroy this web of cyber crime, he forms a team with ethical hackers. Will he be able to stop them before it's too late ? Will he be finally able to get these villains into justice?

Set in the backdrop of 1984 Bhopal disaster, where Ismailov's parents died amidst the leakage of methyl isocyanate in the disaster of Bhopal. Failing to get justice, Ismailov takes the law into his own hands to kill Joseph Anderson, CEO of A to Z e-commerce and the main mastermind behind this Gas tragedy, along with all his associates. DCP Rohit Dasgupta of Kolkata Police investigates to find out Ismailov and his den of Onion in Bhopal, who hacks Byblis and Darling tone software, a part of the A to Z e-commerce company, thus making his base in the Indian Subcontinent. Ismailov also hacks the IMF server and gets all defence insecurities illegally.

Cast

Soundtrack

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Soundtrack album by
Released27 September 2019
Recorded2019
StudioNeo Sound
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length6:51
LanguageBengali
Label Zee Music Bangla
External audio
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The soundtrack is composed by Savvy and lyrics by Riddhi Barua and Soham Majumdar.

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Trippy Lage"Riddhi Barua Nikhita Gandhi, Shashwat Singh 3:05
2."Aye Khuda"Soham Majumdar KK 3:46
Total length:6:51

Marketing and release

The official teaser of the film was unveiled by Dev Entertainment Ventures on 15 August 2019. [7] The official 4K teaser 2 of the film was unveiled by Dev Entertainment Ventures on 1 September 2019. [8]

The film flopped at box-office. Some scenes are modified like a nude woman's back side has been blurred, skulls scattering everywhere are blurred. Some violent portions have also been trimmed. It was released on 2 October, coinciding with 2019 Puja holidays. [9]

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References

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  2. "Inside Pictures: Bengali celebs and their exciting snaps from the film sets - Inside Pictures: Bengali celebs and their never-seen-before snaps from the film sets". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
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