''Buno Haansh'' (English: ''Wild Goose'') is an Indian

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directed by

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. It is based on a novel by

Samaresh Majumdar Samares Mazumdar ( bn, সমরেশ মজুমদার, born 10 March 1944) is an Indian Bengali writer from West Bengal, India. He is best known for his Animesh series of novels, the second of which (''Kalbela'') won the Sahitya Akadem ...

of the same name, and features actors Dev,

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and

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in the lead roles. The music in this film was composed by

Shantanu Moitra Shantanu Moitra (born 22 January 1968) is an Indian score composer, musician and pianist who has composed songs for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his scores in the films '' Parineeta'' (2005), ''Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' (200 ...

. The film released on 15 August 2014.

Plot

The story of the film, which deals with the underworld, revolves around Amal (played by Dev), who engages himself deeply into a smuggling business. The events which occur after the boy realizes that he has become the part of a dangerous game, form the climax of the story.

Cast

* Dev as Amal *

as Sohag *

as Rijula *

Moon Moon Sen Moon Moon Sen, also credited as Moonmoon Sen (born Srimati Sen; 28 March 1954), is an Indian actress, known for her works in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Marathi films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films. She h ...

as Madam *

Arindam Sil Arindam Sil is an Indian actor, film director and line producer. Early life Sil was born on 12 March 1964 in North Calcutta to a traditional joint family. He was a student of St. Joseph's College, Calcutta, and St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, ...

as the owner of a

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as Sister in law of Amal *

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as Adrija/Addy * Anindya Pulak as Robin *

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as Badal bhai *

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as Sohag's Brother *

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as Rafik * Sohag Sen as Amol's Mother *

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as Habib bhai *

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as Bar Dancer

Making

Production

is the executive producer for ''Buno Haansh''. The film is one of the high-budget films of Tollywood. The film was earlier titled ''Runway''.

Casting

This is the first collaboration of all the members of the cast of ''Buno Haansh'' with director

. Initially, actress

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was supposed to play the female lead, but she stepped back due to date problems. After that, various names like

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and

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were being considered to bag the female lead. Finally, actress

was signed to play the role. Veteran Bengali actress

reappears on big screen with this film after nine years, her last film being ''

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'', which was released in 2004. She was reported to play a central character in this film. In an interview, she said, "Yes, Tony (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) has approached me with a role in his next film. In the past too, Tony had approached me, but somehow I couldn't work out the time. But this time I'm really looking forward to it, though I'm yet to hear the script and sign on the dotted line. At present, both of us are talking about the film." Even director Chowdhury said that signing Moon Moon was like a dream come true for him and that, there was no other actress who would fit the character perfectly.

Filming

Director

was reported to search for shooting locations at

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. Some scenes were also shot in

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and Thailand.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film is given by

, while the lyrics are written by

Srijato Srijato Bandopadhyay is an Indian poet of the Bengali language. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book ''Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers''. In 2014, he won the Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyricist for the song 'Balir Sho ...

Anindya Chatterjee Anindya Chatterjee is an Indian bengali film director, music director, singer, lyricist, actor and producer based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the singer-lyricist of prominent Bengali band Chandrabindoo. In recent times he has composed ...

and

Chandril Bhattacharya Chandril Bhattacharya ( bn, চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য) is a popular Bengali essayist, lyricist, poet, orator and director from Kolkata. Music Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bengali band Chandrabin ...

. The full album was released on iTunes on 27 June 2014. T-Series also uploaded a jukebox of the album on

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on that very same day. There are five original tracks in the album.

Track listing

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buno Haansh Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films 2014 films Films scored by Shantanu Moitra Films set in Mumbai Films shot in Mumbai Reliance Entertainment films Films directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury