“Golpo kam, sahitya beshi” (Less of fiction & more of literature).Īll in all, ‘ Chander Pahar’ is arguably one of the finest adventure novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading & even if you cannot read Bengali, there’s always the English translation you can check out. I mean, it’s an adventure tale & if something starts to feel a tad repetitive, you’re killing the magic of it. The only point of criticism on my part is that the story could’ve been a bit shorter. So I can count myself lucky for having someone in the house who was willing to entertain my questions on vocabulary (thank you Maa!) every other time I was reading this. The novelist is one of the major exponents of literary fiction in Bengali literature & so the prose is a notch higher than what I’ve encountered in Satyajit Ray’s short novellas featuring the sleuth Feluda or in Anandamela, the Bengali literary magazine for children. Will Shankar survive the ordeal of rainforests, high-terrain climbs, deserts, seemingly mythical beasts & live the life he had always craved for?ĭespite the fact that the book falls under the category of children’s literature, it bears the hallmark of Bibhutibhushan’s work. But in a place where civilization has never set foot before, mere survival is often the biggest challenge. Together, they set off on a great adventure in search of a legendary treasure that lies in an unknown cave, hidden somewhere in the forests of the Richtersveldt Mountain Range. He nurses him back to health & Alvarez, in gratitude towards the young lad, decides to take him under his wing. While on stationmaster duty at a remote station in Kenya, he happens to meet the Portuguese traveller Diego Alvarez, famished & on the verge of death.
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Living in the vast grasslands of Africa with Europeans & locals alike as they go laying tracks for trains is not bereft of danger, for man-eating predators roam freely & a moment of indiscretion or complacency can often result in one’s death. Chander Pahar Movie Review The most expensive Bengali film till date will inspire if not force the Bengali industry to be more dynamic in scale, thought, courage Anjan Dutt Sometimes films are produced for breaking new grounds. So when an acquaintance offers him the oppprtunity to work abroad, Shankar grabs it with both hands & lands in the middle of Africa, working for the Ugandan Railway Company. However, the year is 1909 & what awaits him at the end of his schooling is an ordinary clerical job at a jute factory. Shankar is your brilliant youngster in every respect – a good student with decent grades, an excellent athlete & a thirst for knowledge & adventure in his life. Shankar Choudhuri is the protagonist of ‘ Chander Pahar’ (‘ Mountain of the Moon’) by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the novelist famous for penning the novels on which Satyajit Ray‘s Apu trilogy is based. For there was a time when I really thought I’d never get around to reading Bengali literature – but here I am, having accomplished what I set out to do. Raj, who was rightly credited with blending the masala and realistic genres in his string of hits, had tweeted after watching Meghe Dhaka Tara, "Proud to be part of an industry which produces such a film? kudos director Kamaleswar.Before I start to write a review, I’d like to take the opportunity to pat my own back. Also Read - Remembering the legend called Guru Dutt on his 93rd birth anniversary But with factors like other commitments that did not happen," Raj, one of the most popular young directors having made string of hits like Pralay and Bojhena Se Bojhenam told PTI during the premier of the film.
" Chander Pahare thakte cheyechhilam (I had seriously wished to be part of the film). Also Read - Madhur Bhandarkar: Unfortunate that there is no Indian film at Cannes this year Having tweeted effusively on Ritwik Ghatak biopic Meghe Dhaka Tara, friend director Raj Chakroborty had badly wished to be serenaded by Kamaleswar Mukhopadhyay even for a one-minute role in Chander Pahar, the highest budget Bengali flick shot extensively in Africa. The actor-director wished to be part of the highest budget Bengali film in any manner possible but couldn't do owing to his prior commitments
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