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Amazon Obhijaan
Official Poster of Amazon Obhijaan.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Written by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Based onCharacters of Chander Pahar, created
by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Produced byMahendra Soni
Shrikant Mohta
Starring
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Edited by Rabiranjan Maitra
Music by Debojyoti Mishra
Production
company
Distributed byShree Venkatesh Films
Release date
  • 22 December 2017 (2017-12-22) [1]
Running time
140 minutes [2]
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Budgetest.₹20 crore [3]
Box office₹48.63 crore [4]

Amazon Obhijaan (lit. The Amazon Expedition) is a 2017 Indian Bengali-language action-adventure film written and directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. [5] Starring Dev in the lead role of Shankar, it is the sequel to 2013 film Chander Pahar and the second installment of Chander Pahar film series. [6] The film revolves around Shankar, an adventurer who, along with a lady and her father, travels the Amazon in search of the City of Gold, El Dorado.

Contents

Amazon Obhijaan happens to be the 100th film of the production house. [7] The highest-grossing Bengali film ever, [8] it was released theatrically on 22 December, 2017. On 5 January, 2018, the film was dubbed and released in five languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese. It is also the first Bengali film to release theatrically in United Kingdom on 12 January, 2018, in 30 years.

Plot

The sequel to the Chander Pahar film, the story begins with Shankar living in his hometown when he is approached by a young Italian woman named Anna Florian to accompany her and her father, Marco Florian, in finding mythical El Dorado, the city of gold in Amazon. Thus, the journey of Shankar begins.

Cast

Production

In earlier 2014, according to a Bengali magazine, director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee has already penned the script, taking the story forward from where it left and Dev has been quoted as saying that the next location, after the African safari, will be the dense forests of Amazon rainforest. [10] The film has been titled Amazon Obhijan. [5] Shooting has been started from May 2016. [5]

Marketing

The first teaser and poster released on 21 September 2017. [11]

The film's official poster has been launched at the Mohun Bagan Ground and made a record of the biggest film poster of history in India on 4 November 2017. It broke the previous record of Bahubali's poster and achieve Guinness book world record. [12] [13]

The trailer of the film was released on 1 December 2017 [14] [15] in Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu [16] language.

Graphic novel

Amazon Obhijaan
Date11 November 2017
Page count160 pages
Creative team
Writers Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Creator Chander Pahar
by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Original publication
LanguageBangla and English

Amazon Obhijaan is a 2017 graphic novel based on the film of the same name. [17] It is written by the film's director Kamaleswar Mukherjee, and is available in English and Bengali. [18] The graphic novel acts as a promotional activity for the film. It was released on 11 November 2017. [19]

Soundtrack

Indraadip Dasgupta was signed to compose the songs of the film.

Amazon Obhijaan
Soundtrack album by
Indraadip Dasgupta
Released2017
Recorded2017
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length5:22
Label SVF
Producer
Indraadip Dasgupta chronology
Yeti Obhijaan
(2017)		Amazon Obhijaan
(2017)
Singles from Amazon Obhijaan
  1. "Chol Naa Jai"
    Released: 16 Dec 2017
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Chol Naa Jai"Prasen Arijit Singh 5:22
Total length:5:22

Reception

The Times of India rated the film 3/5, writing, "One must watch the film. Not only because of its grandeur but also to savour Kamaleswar’s imagination. The mythic city of El Dorado is pretty much the same as we had imagined in childhood. And finally, the film ends where it all began — with a reference to Reader’s Digest , the book that opened up the idea of Shankar’s first adventure, Chander Pahar , many years ago." [20]

See also

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