New trailer of "Chander Pahar"
First time in my life...eagerly waiting for the release of a bengali movie!!!
[YOUTUBE]*www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FbCAeCpJR8[/YOUTUBE]
This weekend finished reading the novel on which this movie is made. I had read in my childhood but had forgotten most of it.
Book name: Chander Pahar
Author: Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Genre: Adventure
Specially mentioned: Written on 1937. The author never visited Africa for the story. The descriptions are either his imagination or result of research. This book is read by mostly all bengali either by curiosity or as a story mentioned in school syllabus.
This movie is a dream come true for most of us, its really exciting to see our childhood fantasies coming alive in front of us.
Few challenge areas that I want to see how the makers had handled:-
1>Language: In book the author describes everything in bengali but his characters talk in english. For movie they have to show the conversation. Full english and we get a 'Kites' like future...none would watch it. Full bengali....again a foreigner speaking bengali would not fit.
2>Cinematography: The way the author described in book, each of us had dreamed an Africa. The director has to match our imagination. Again a very good cinematographer could change everything for this movie. This movie has the chance to become our "Motorcycle diaries"
3>Budget: They have only 15cr as budget. But this movie should require at least 60-70 cr. First segment that could get hit by this low budget is the VFX. Then is scenes of various exotic and key locations mentioned in the book.
4>Narration: The book has stories of three main persons. Alvarez, Alvarez's partner and Sankar. Each of their stories are very vividly mentioned in the book but screentime could be a challenge to show them all. Again, miss anyone and a very important part is omitted.
But above all the challenges, they have braved to make a very difficult movie in a very short budget. Best of luck to the team.
b/w the movie is releasing on 20th December, 2013....with Dhoom 3! Tough luck again.