Awara (film)
Awara is a 2012 Bengali romantic action comedy movie.[1] It is a remake of the 2008 Telugu movie Krishna having Ravi Teja and Trisha Krishnan in the lead role. Directed by Ravi Kinagi and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films this film stars Jeet and Sayantika Banerjee in lead roles. In this film Kharaj Mukherjee as Madan impressed the audience. The film is placed List of highest-grossing Bengali films.[2][3]
Awara | |
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Directed by | Ravi Kinnagi |
Screenplay by | N.K. Salil |
Story by | Akula Siva |
Produced by | Shree Venkatesh Films |
Starring | Jeet Sayantika Banerjee Mukul Dev Ashish Vidyarthi |
Cinematography | Mohan Verma |
Edited by | Mohammad Kalam |
Music by | Jeet Gannguli |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Shree Venkatesh Films |
Release date | 13 July 2012 |
Running time | 160 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Plot
The film is about Surya Narayan (Jeet) who was once a software engineer but quits his job to give it to his poor friend and is unemployed in the city of Cooch Behar. Poulomi (Sayantika Banerjee) is a girl from Kolkata who studies in college and comes to Cooch Behar for her vacation to stay with her elder brother Madan Mohan (Kharaj Mukherjee) and his wife. Surya falls in love with Poulomi at first sight in Ransh Mela and starts chasing her to win her heart and enters the upper portion of their house as tenants with his elder brother, Upendra Narayan (Biswajit Chakraborty) and sister in law (Tulika Basu). In this process Surya will have clash with local rowdy Shanatan Panja (Tamal Roychowdhury). Mistaking him to be one tapori, Poulomi hates him first but later on she realizes his true nature . She returns to Kolkata and lives with her older brother (Ashish Vidyarthi), a former builder and now a very powerful rowdy who is very possessive and protective about his sister. Surya follows Poulomi to Kolkata and works his way into their house with the help of Madan Mohan and finally both of them confess their love. There, Surya knows the flashback of Poulomi and how she is being chased by the notorious and cruel Tony Bharadwaj (Mukul Dev) assisted by his uncle (Supriyo Dutta) for marriage. Surya fights Tony, Poulomi's older brother kills Tony, and Surya marries Poulomi.
Cast
ACTOR | ROLE |
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Jeet | Surya Narayan/Surya |
Sayantika | Poulomi |
Mukul Dev | Tony Bharadwaj, who controls all the local MLAs and ministers |
Ashish Vidyarthi | Indrajit |
Kharaj Mukherjee | Madan Mohan |
Kamalika Banerjee | Madan Mohan's wife |
Supriyo Dutta | Gunodhar Chakraborty, Tony's uncle |
Biswajit Chakraborty | |
Tulika Bose | Surya's sister-in-law (Upendra's wife) |
Biswanath Basu | Surya's friend |
Tamal Roy Chowdhury | Sanatan Panja |
Subhasish Mukherjee | The man who gives rooms for rent to Surya and Poulami |
Mousumi Das | Prashanta's daughter |
Rintu Dey | Bubai; Upendra's son and Surya's Nephew |
Rajat Ganguly | Prashanta, Chairman of the Municipal Corporation |
Arun Banerjee | Advocate Dulal Bhowmik |
Soundtrack
Awara | ||||
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Soundtrack album by Jeet Gannguli, Dev Sen | ||||
Released | 13 July 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Language | Bengali | |||
Label | SVF | |||
Producer | Shree Venkatesh Films | |||
Singles from Awara | ||||
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Jeet Gannguli chronology | ||||
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Dev Sen chronology | ||||
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All music is composed by Jeet Gannguli, Dev Sen
No. | Title | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Porle Mone" | Jeet Gannguli | Jeet Gannguli | 4:29 |
2. | "Moner Radio" | Jeet Gannguli | Jeet Gannguli, Shilpa Rao | 2:50 |
3. | "Phool Koli" | Dev Sen | Prasenjit Mallick, Dev Sen | 3:42 |
4. | "Awara (Title Track)" | Dev Sen | Prasenjit Mallick, Megha Bhardwaj | 4:08 |
References
- "Awara (2012) - Movie | Reviews, Cast & Release Date in meerut - BookMyShow". in.bookmyshow.com. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- "Awara - Times of India". The Times of India. June 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- "Jeet's the new awara - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 October 2021.