''Mental'' (Past: ''Mental: It Can Be Your Love Story''), better known as ''Rana Pagla: The Mental'', is a 2016 Bangladeshi psychological-action thriller film featuring Shakib Khan,

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with

Achol Hasna Hena Akhee Achol, known by her stage name Achol ( bn, আচঁল) is a Bangladeshi film actress who appears in Dhallywood films. She made her debut in the film ''Bhool'', released in 2011. After making the appearance in the 2013 roman ...

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, Don and

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in supporting roles. The film is directed by

Shamim Ahamed Roni Shamim Ahamed Roni (; born 24 October 1986) is a Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter. Filmography The first film directed by Roni is Mental, which was released on 2016. In addition to directing the film, Roni wrote the screenplay. The ...

, with a screenplay written by Abdullah Zahir and Daud Hussein. The film is produced by Parvez Chowdhury under the banner of Banglaxpress Films. The first theatrical look of the film was revealed on 1 February 2015. The core plot of the movie was partially based on the 2013 Kannada movie '' Bachchan'' with coffee shop comedy sequences borrowed from 2013 Telugu movie ''

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''. The film was released on Eid al-Fitr of 7 July 2016.

Plot

An underworld mafia steals valuable mineral resources and sell them over to international crime organization . Simi (

); a news reporter finds out and exposes the whole criminal chain to the media, despite all threats from them. An unknown, mysterious but affectionate and intimidating man comes up to help, The story revolves around revealing the true identity of him and his link to the Underworld. Khan portrays the role of a generous businessman. Simi, portrayed by Tisha, is his love interest, and a crime news reporter. who is working on exposing corruptions of influential people of the society. Simi takes steps to fight the corrupt people, but soon realizes the influence of those men. Khan changes after a violent encounter in which his love interest, Simi was killed. The plot builds up around his quest to avenge the killing with aid of her research, in which she documents her encounter with her killers, who she planned to expose of corruption

Cast

* Shakib Khan as Shahriar Tanvir Rana *

as Simi, an news reporter *

as Achol/Mehruba Siddiqui *

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* Amir Siraji * Don *

* Pervez Chowdhury * Sanko Panja * DJ Shohel *

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* Jadu Azad *

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* Subrata *

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* Kabila * Ratan Khan * Roman * Shiuly * Foysal * Pritha * Mahi * SA Haque Alik * Amir Fakir * Pavel * Rifat * Debashish Biswas as Special Appearance *

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as Special Appearance in the song ''Khaina Jonab'' *

Sabrina Porshi Sabrina Porshi ( bn, সাবরিনা পড়শী) is a Bangladeshi singer. Her career began when she was 2nd runner-up in a music talent hunt show, Channel i "Khude gaan raj", in 2008. Porshi's first song recording was for a movie in ...

as Special Appearance in the song ''Mon Najehal''

Production

By early 2014, Bangladesh Express Films announced its production and were preparing for the shooting for the film. The Abhi Pictures picked up the distribution rights of the film. The shooting officially started in

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in September 2014.

Casting

Shakib Khan was the first to be roped for the film by director Shamim Ahamed Roni. However, the director has considered many actresses for the lead role but later finalized Tisha, Achol and Porshi for lead female roles. The studio approached Porshi for the film to play the role of a musician while Tisha and Achol were roped to play news reporters.

Filming

The official filming of ''Mental'' began in November 2014 in

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. Scenes were filmed in Dhaka, and Sylhet while several scenes were filmed abroad.

Soundtracks

The soundtrack of the film was written by Prosen, Riddhi, Shomeshwar Oli, Zahid Hasan Abhi, Zahid Akbar and Rabiul Islam Jibon while the music was directed by Dabbu Ghoshal and

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. In November 2014, Shaan recorded the second track. In December 2014, Jojo recorded the third track item number of the movie. The track "Bolte Baki Koto Ki" was released as a single on 23 January 2015.

Release

Controversy

The film faced a lot of controversies after the release of the first track "Bolte Baki Koto Ki" due to alleged copyright infringement. The same tune with slightly different lyrics entitled " Bolte Bolte Cholte Cholte" was released on 20 January 2015 by

Imran Mahmudul Md. Mahmudul Haque Imran (born 5 September 1991), also known as Imran Mahmudul or Imran, is a Bangladeshi music composer and playback singer whose songs has been featured in different albums and movies. He was the first runner-up of ''Channel i Se ...

, three days before the release of ''Mental''s first track. Although the song composition is very similar, both Prosen and Shafiq Tuhin were credited for the same song. Later it was confirmed that

is the legal copyright holder of the song and he was originally commissioned for the song by the producers, but later dropped out due to professional indifference.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mental (2016 Film) 2016 films 2016 psychological thriller films 2016 romantic drama films Bengali-language Bangladeshi films Bangladeshi action thriller films Films scored by Akassh Films scored by Dabbu Bangladeshi films about revenge 2016 masala films Films about amnesia 2016 directorial debut films 2010s Bengali-language films Films directed by Shamim Ahamed Roni Bangladeshi remakes of Indian films Films shot in Sylhet Films set in Sylhet