''Shukno Lanka'' is a 2010 Bengali-language Indian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by Gaurabh Pandey, starring
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 ...
,
Debashree Roy
Debashree Roy (born 8 August 1962), also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist. As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She has been cited as the ...
and
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television. He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda, and Kakababu.
Personal life
His parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabar ...
.
Premiere
![Mithun Chakraborty at the premiere of Bengali film Shukno Lanka](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Mithun_Chakraborty_at_the_premiere_of_Bengali_film_Shukno_Lanka.jpg)
''Shukno Lanka'' is the story of a Junior artist living in a tinsel town, played by Mithun Chakraborty, who is yet to taste success after a struggle of 30 years of acting career. Sabyasachi Chakrabarty plays the character of Joy Sundar Sen, who is inspired by
Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily rememb ...
casts junior artiste Chinu Nandi a chance in the lead role in his next venture.
The film motivates thousands of junior artistes, when the character played by Mithun gets signed for an international project as the leading man.
The film has allusions to the works of
Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily rememb ...
and
Satyajit Ray, and even the character played by Sabyasachi Chakrabarty has apparent similarities with Ray.
Plot
Chinu Nandi (
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 ...
) was a talented part-time actor and full-time employee of a coal-mine. Once he loses his job, he takes up acting as his full-time job.
However, not starting in the profession early proves to be his demerit. He finds himself as a 250 bucks per day actor, who gets paid only if he gets a chance to play some part on the day. He is cast mainly as elderly house-servants and similar small characters in thoroughly commercial movies. Even so, he tries to give his best in such roles, which makes the stars of such movies (mainly Tublai, played by
late Kunal Mitra) insecure, and they start to avoid giving him roles.
Meanwhile, Joy Sundar Sen (
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television. He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda, and Kakababu.
Personal life
His parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabar ...
), a world-renowned director who recently won an award for his movie at the Berlin Film Festival, starts working on his new project: a movie based on
Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily rememb ...
's short story Porosh Pathor (
The Philosopher's Stone). In order to portray the protagonist of this movie (Chandrakant), Sen selects Chinu Nandi, much to the dismay of the superstars of the industry, some of whom are openly hostile with Nandi for being 'the chosen one'.
Through the course of filming this movie, we see a lot of these two characters, their sincerity, their devotion to their fields, their love for art, and their talent. When it comes to family, however, Nandi is very happy being a poor simpleton with his wife (
Angana Bose), whom he loves very dearly, and cherishes his hobby of cuisine. Sen, on the contrary, is indifferent to his wife (
Debashree Roy
Debashree Roy (born 8 August 1962), also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist. As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She has been cited as the ...
), who constantly tries to make him feel her presence through her love for him.
The movie, after a couple of obstacles, finally gets released, and everything falls into place. Sen and his wife revive their love for each other, and Nandi wins the respect of his wife and the whole neighborhood.
Cast
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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 Chinu Nandi.
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Debashree Roy
Debashree Roy (born 8 August 1962), also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist. As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She has been cited as the ...
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Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television. He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda, and Kakababu.
Personal life
His parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabar ...
as Joy Sundar Sen
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Emma Brown Garett
Emma Brown Garrett is a former Australian actress who worked in Indian Bollywood and Tollywood Bengali movies. She made her Indian film debut in the Bengali movie '' Shukno Lanka''. Her Bollywood movies are '' Yamala Pagla Deewana'' and '' ...
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Angana Bose
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Saheb Chatterjee
Shaheb Chatterjee ( bn, সাহেব চ্যাটার্জী) is a Bengali Indian male actor and singer of Tollywood Bangla and Bengali television.
Shaheb Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and singer of Tollywood Bangla and ...
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Kunal Mitra
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Biswanath Basu
Biswanath Basu (or sometimes Biswanath Bose) is an Indian actor who appears in Bengali films.
Filmography
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Television
Apart from doing films, Basu has also appeared in many television serials.
References
External links
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Arindam Sil
* Nandini Chaterjee
* Chattrapati Dutta
* Suman De
Chinu Nandi
In an interview Mithun Chakraborty talked about his character Chinu Nandi– this character gave him an opportunity to retrace his struggling days. He told– ".It has taken me back closer to my roots. But if you look closely, I, Mithun Chakraborty, have not completely outgrown the Chinu Nandy of Shukno Lanka. In a way all of us are bit-role players in the drama of life."
Awards
''Shukno Lanka'' won Mithun, the Best Actor award in the Critics category of Star Jalsha Awards 2011 for the year 2010.
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 4338242
Times of India
2010 films
2010s Bengali-language films
Bengali-language Indian films
Films set in Kolkata
Films directed by Gaurav Pandey
Indian drama films