Honestly, I am not worried about the box-office fate of the film. “ Chander Pahar is beyond hits and flops. But he isn’t worried about how it does at the box office. If this translates into box-office returns, we will recover the cost,” Mohta said.įor actor Dev, Chander Pahar is the “most important film of my career” after 16 masala projects. The hype and buzz that is there for Chander Pahar, I have not seen in my 17 years (in film production). Chander Pahar can recover its cost only if it breaks previous box-office records twice over! But we didn’t make this film with money in mind. “It is not at all easy (recovering the cost). The buzz about the “costliest” Bengali film is huge, but the big question is whether it has enough fuel in the tank to blaze a box-office trail like fellow Friday release Dhoom:3 is expected to do.
Producer Shrikant Mohta of Shree Venkatesh Films knows the only way his Chander Pahar can recover money is by breaking a mountain of records. Last big-budget Bengali film: Mishawr Rawhoshyo (Rs 7 crore), the biggest hit of the year.Ĭhander Pahar has done what no Bengali film had dared to do: invest Rs 15 crore in a jungle adventure starring Dev minus a heroine, release on the same day as a Bolly biggie and dream of beating the box-office odds. Releasing in: 180 theatres in Bengal, including multiplexes. The film: Chander Pahar, based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s novel of the same name and directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee, tells the story of village boy Shankar (Dev), who travels to Africa to take up a station master’s job and jumps into one adventure after another in the wild - from lying next to a black mamba to fighting a bunip (an imaginary wild animal created by Bandopadhyay)!
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