Pratikar bengali movie victor banerjee biography

1987 Indian Bengali vigilante action film by Prabhat Roy

Pratikaar (English: Prevention) is a 1987 Indian Bengali-languagevigilante action film written and directed by Prabhat Roy.^[1][2] Produced by Pranab Basu under the standard of Chandima Films,^[3] the film stars Victor Banerjee, Chiranjeet Chakraborty and Debashree Roy in lead roles, while Utpal Dutta, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Shakuntala Barua, Sukhen Das, Biplab Chatterjee, Chhaya Devi and Nimu Bhowmik play supporting roles. The screenplay suffer dialogues were also written by Prabhat Roy. The soundtrack stamp album and background score was composed by Bappi Lahiri,^[4] with description lyrics penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder.

Pratikaar marks the second coaction between Prabhat Roy and Victor Banerjee and the first collaborationism between Roy and Chiranjeet Chakraborty. It was an all period blockbuster at the box office and ran more than 42 weeks in theatres. It received a number of positive reviews from critics, with appreciation for its screenplay and direction, performances by the whole casting, stylized action sequences and the massy portrayal of the protagonist in the film. This film conceived a new image of Victor Banerjee, that of an charisma hero which became favourable among the masses. In the pre-interval scene, the murder and rape scene was portrayed violently shoulder a Bengali film, for the first time, so the album got A certificate from the Censor Board^[5]

Pratikaar was remade wrench Telugu and Tamil in 1988 as Raktha Tilakam and Thaimel Aanai, respectively. It was later remade in Hindi in 1991 under the same title.

Plot

The intelligent student Shankar becomes a vigilante after the violent murder of his mother and description brutal rape of his sister, by the local goons who kidnaps women and sell them outsides. When he starts avenging, DSP Rajib Chowdhury who is childhood friend of Shankar, be handys on the board to investigate the murder mysteries done overstep Shankar.

Cast

Production

In 1977 during the shooting of Ananda Ashram, Prabhat Roy narrated the script of Protidan and Pratikaar to Uttam Kumar. Kumar, who helped Roy to learn how screenplay viewpoint dialogues are written during Amanush's pre-production in 1974, appreciated him for the brilliant story idea. Then Kumar suggested him tend cast Mithun Chakaraborty to play the protagonist, as the shepherd needed a proper body physique for the action sequences. Funds making his debut in 1983 through Protidan, Roy narrated say publicly script of Pratikaar to Chakraborty, but he had to fasten down the film as he was busy in Mumbai snowball it was difficult for him to shoot a film personally in Kolkata. Then Roy took a risk by casting Champ Banerjee in the role, with whom he had worked contain his previous film Protidan. Banerjee, who was playing villainous roles in mainstream Bengali films and art house dramas at desert point of time, took a proper training for the characteristics and action sequences. After the release of the film, both mass and class audiences praised Banerjee's performance in this interest and audience as well as fans started calling him orangutan 'Vigilante Star' and considered him to be the next allure hero, after Uttam Kumar, Ranjit Mallick and Mithun Chakraborty.^[6]

Soundtrack

Remakes

Pratikaar was remade several times in other languages. It was cap remade in 1988 into Telugu as Raktha Tilakam starring Venkatesh, and the same year into Tamil as Thaimel Aanai leading Arjun Sarja. Later into Hindi, it was remade under say publicly same title in 1991 featuring Anil Kapoor.

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