''Jole Jongole'' is a 2018 Indian

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-language

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directed by Nitish Roy, who was the production designer for the Hollywood horror film Crocodile 2: Death Swamp. The film stars

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

as a 'mad' scientist who wants to bring back prehistoric creatures, perished millions of years ago from the earth as he is trying to expand the brain of crocodiles. Jackie Shroff stars as the antagonist who wants to take control of dangerous crocodiles for his own park. A few scenes of the film were shot in Prayag Film City in West Midnapore, and shooting was completed by early 2012, but got stuck in development hell and was finally released on 6 January 2018.

Plot

The film is based on the experiment done by a mad scientist (Mithun) who comes up with a lovable crocodile. Like the dolphins, this crocodile was implanted with intelligence. At this point, an NRI (Jackie) eyes this project as he wants to build his own Jurassic Park and wants to get control on this crocodile.

Cast

* Jackie Shroff * Ashish Vidyarthi *

Tinnu Anand Tinu Anand (born Virender Raj Anand, 12 October 1945) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in Hindi cinema and a few Telugu and Tamil films. Early life He is the son of veteran writer Inder Raj Anand, brother of producer Bittu An ...

* Dibyendu Bhattacharya * Dijana Dejanovic *Biswajit Chakraborty * Mumtaz Sorcar *Titas Bhowmick *Pamela Singh Bhutoria *Sayantani Guhathakurta *Riju Biswas * Sayak *Rajdeep Gupta *

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 compos ...

*Dhruba Lal *

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as item number ""

Soundtrack

Remake

The film will be remade in Hindi as '' Gehra Paani'' with a higher budget than the Bengali version. For the Hindi version, the cast and location will remain same except

, who will be replaced by Bollywood actor

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. Both the versions are being made at a budget of and would be shot in the Sunderban.

Critical reception

Release

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 6216288, Jole Jongole
''Jole Jongole'' Website
2018 films Films scored by Jeet Ganguly Films shot in West Bengal Indian science fiction thriller films Films about crocodilians Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films