Chander
Pahar
Chander Pahar is the story of a young
Bengali man's adventures in Africa in the years 1909-1910. Shankar Roy
Chowdhury, the protagonist, is a 20-year old man, recently completed his FA
(First Arts)(graduation) and about to take up a job in a jute .... More >>
Chander Pahar Movie Cast
Dev as Shankar RoyChowdhury,
protagonist of the story
Gérard Rudolf as Diego Alvarez
Martin Cito Otto as Jim Carter
Paul Ditchfield
Laboni Sarkar
Tamal Roy Chowdhury
Chander Pahar Movie Details
Movie Name: Chander Pahar
Director: Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Producer: Mahendra Soni, Shrikant Mohta
Music: Indraadip Das Gupta & Debojyoti
Mishra
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Budget: INR 15 crore (US$2.4 million)
Chander Pahar Movie Story
Chander Pahar is the story of a young
Bengali man's adventures in Africa in the years 1909-1910. Shankar Roy
Chowdhury, the protagonist, is a 20-year old man, recently completed his FA
(First Arts)(graduation) and about to take up a job in a jute mill, a prospect
he absolutely loathes.
He
yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals. He wants to follow the
footsteps of famous explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, Marco Polo, all of
whom he has read about and idolizes. By a stroke of luck, he secures a job as a
clerk in Uganda Railway through a fellow villager already working there and
goes to Africa without a second thought.
He
takes up a job as station master in desolate station. One Fine Evening Shankar
gets chased by a Man-eating Lion and luckily he reaches his cabin and locks the
door. The next day he asks the head station master to provide him with a
Springfield Bolt Action Gun and some carbolic acid as a day before he
encounters another hazard in Africa: the poisonous black mamba. He miffs the
black mamba with his torchlight. Next day he gets these things via another
fellow Indian Tirumal Appa who is serving the British army. They quickly strike
a rapport and Tirumal visits him often and gives him company till one day a
mishappening happens, Tirumal himself becomes victim of same Man eater Lion.
This rages Shankar and he decides to end this peril, he uses himself as a bait
by pouring blood on himself and scatters meat chunks in way tempting the lion
out of his cave and eventually shots him down. He also rescues and looks after
the middle-aged Portuguese explorer and gold prospector, Diego Alvarez. The
encounter with Alavarez influences him deeply. Alavarez tells him of his
earlier exploits and adventures, how he and his companion Jim Carter had braved
deep jungles and mountains of Richtersveld to find the largest diamond mine.
However, they were thwarted by the legendary Bunyip, a mythical monster which
guards the mines which killed Carter.
Shankar
gives up his job and accompanies Alvarez as he decides to venture out once more
and find the mines again. They meet with innumerable hardships,The First one a
raging volcanowhich explodes and forces them to halt their expedition and then
one night they were attacked by the monster Bunyip . Eventually they get lost
in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the monster, in an effort to save
Shankar's life. Desolated Shankar Mourns the death of Alvarez deeply and buries
him with all rites and set sail for his expedition towards the mountain of
moon.
Shankar
sets out to reach civilization. He finds the diamond mines by accident. He
enters the cave but eventually gets lost. With great difficulty, he gets out,
marking his way with "pebbles" and taking some back with him as
memento, not knowing each is a piece of uncut diamond. He finds the remains of
the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave he found earlier
really was the diamond mine. Gatti, as Shankar learns from a note by him, had
uncut diamonds in his boots. The note said that whoever reads the note can take
the diamonds as long as he buries his skeleton, with Christian rites. Shankar
does so, and keeps the old diamonds.Accidentally while crossing the jungle he
comes in contact with the bunyip's cave Filled with revenge he devises a plan
to get rid of bunyip. Shankar collects wood from Jungle and sharpen their tip
as sharp as spear and in a process he fences the entrance with sharpened wood
and wait for the bunyip. The Bunyip eventually turns up and seeing its prey
jumps at it from height, Shankar eventually moves out and the bunyip gets
peirced within the sharpened wood & dies. Shankar tries to move out by
following the compass,He becomes lost in the deserts of Kalahari and nearly
dies of thirst. Fortunately he is rescued by a survey team, and taken to a
hospital in Salisbury, Rhodesia, When he recovers he sells 4 of his diamonds and
gets lots of money and One diamond he sends to his Parents with a note to sell
it and help the villagers with its money.Next he sells his sole diamond and
buys a steamer boat to continue his exploration.He ends the book saying that he
will return to that cave one day with a large team, and continue the legacy of
Alvarez, Carter and Gatti.
Chander Pahar Movie Release Date
December 20, 2013
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