| Pratibad | |||||||||
| Director: | Haranath Chakraborty | ||||||||
| Producer: | Shrikant Mohta | ||||||||
| Screenplay: | Anjan Choudhury
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| Story: | Anjan Choudhury | ||||||||
| Starring: | Ranjit Mallick Prosenjit Chatterjee Arpita Pal Laboni Sarkar Dipankar De Debesh Roy Chowdhury Arun Mukherjee Nirmal Kumar Anamika Saha Sreela Majumdar | ||||||||
| Music: | Songs: Babul Bose Background Score: S. P. Venkatesh | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | V. Prabhakar | ||||||||
| Editing: | Swapan Guha | ||||||||
| Studio: | Shree Venkatesh Films | ||||||||
| Distributor: | Shree Venkatesh Films | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 149 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||
| Language: | Bengali | ||||||||
Pratibad (English: Protest) is a 2001 Indian Bengali-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Haranath Chakraborty.[1] Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, the story, screenplay and dialogues of the film were written by Anjan Choudhury, which itself was based on the political violence that rocked Bengal during the late 90s. It stars Ranjit Mallick, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Arpita Pal in lead roles; while Dipankar De, Laboni Sarkar, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Arun Mukherjee, Nirmal Kumar, Anamika Saha, Sreela Majumdar and Rajesh Sharma play another pivotal roles.[2]
Pratibad was released on 13 April 2001 worldwide and became blockbuster at the box office and ran for 210 days in theatres; also being the highest-grossing Bengali film of 2001. It was declared to be tacs-free by the Government of West Bengal and it eventually gained a cult status in the history of Bengali cinema. After the massive success of Sasurbari Zindabad in Assam, the film was released in Assamese as Ranabhumi and achieved commercial success.
The story is of a middle-class family struggling financially. The family consists of two sisters, mother and father. Prosenjit Chatterjee as a Rana is the main and a promising character. He is a daredevil and a terrific fighter against injustice. Once, he was travelling with his pregnant sister in a train, he begged everybody for a seat for his sister, but no one paid heed. There were some burglars in the train who started looting, but Rana saved it from happening. By this act, he was given the job of a police officer. In Rana's area of jurisdiction, there lived an MLA name Bikas. He was a very corrupt politician and indulged in illegal activities. There lived another man Azad who fought against injustice everywhere. Now this minister's girl Jaya, fell in love with Rana. Once, it so happened that while Rana's sister was about to give birth to her child, this minister, Bikas, tried to kill Rana, but his sister was injured and ultimately died. Then Rana decided to take revenge but was initially not allowed to do so. Ultimately MLA Bikas's real character was revealed, and in a serious fighting with Rana, MLA Bikas dies.
| Pratibad | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Babul Bose |
| Released: | May 2001 |
| Recorded: | 2001 |
| Studio: | Musicians Studio, (Mumbai) |
| Genre: | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length: | 27:01 |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Label: | Eskay Video |
| Producer: | Jay Ghosh, Shanu Mukherjee |
| Prev Title: | Aasroy |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | Dada Thakur |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
| Chronology: | Babul Bose |
The album is composed by Babul Bose, while lyrics are penned by Goutam Susmit.[3] The background score is composed by S. P. Venkatesh. Babul Supriyo, Kumar Sanu, Poornima, Sadhana Sargam, Miss Jojo has given their voices for the album.[4]