Pratibad

Pratibad
Pratibad film poster
Directed by	Haranath Chakraborty
Written by	Anjan Chowdhury (Story, Screenplay & Dialogues)
Produced by
Starring	Prosenjit Chatterjee Arpita Pal Ranjit Mallick Laboni Sarkar Deepankar De
Cinematography	V. Prabhakar
Edited by	Swapan Guha
Music by	Songs: Background Score: S. P. Venkatesh
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date	13 April 2001
Running time	149 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	₹ 1 crore(equivalent to ₹3.4 crores in 2020)
Box office	₹ 1.5 crore(equivalent to ₹5.2 crores in 2020)

Pratibad [English: Protest] [Bengali: প্রতিবাদ] is a 2001 Indian Bengali language action drama directed by Haranath Chakraborty. The film was the most expensive Bengali film at the time of its release. The film garnered a positive response and was declared a Blockbuster becoming the highest-grossing film of the year and second highest grossing Bengali film at the time of its release.

Plot[]

The story is of a middle-class family struggling financially. The family consists of two sisters, mother and father. Prosenjit Chatterjee as a Rana is the main and a promising character. He is a daredevil and a terrific fighter against injustice. Once, he was travelling with his pregnant sister in a train, he begged everybody for a seat for his sister, but no one paid heed. There were some burglars in the train who started looting, but Rana saved it from happening. By this act, he was given the job of a police officer. In Rana's area of jurisdiction, there lived an MLA name Bikas. He was a very corrupt politician and indulged in illegal activities. There lived another man Azad who fought against injustice everywhere. Now this minister's girl Jaya, fell in love with Rana. Once, it so happened that while Rana's sister was about to give birth to her child, this minister, Bikas, tried to kill Rana, but his sister was injured and ultimately died. Then Rana decided to take revenge but was initially not allowed to do so. Ultimately MLA Bikas's real character was revealed, and in a serious fighting with Rana, MLA Bikas dies.

Cast[]

• Prosenjit Chatterjee as Rana Mitra, an ordinary person
• Arpita Pal as Jaya
• Ranjit Mallick as Azad Da
• Laboni Sarkar as MP Namita Sanyal
• Deepankar De as Kalu Prasad, Central Home Minister
• Anamika Saha as Beena Mitra, Rana's Mother
• Nirmal Kumar as Pratap Mitra, Rana's Father
• Bharat Kaul
• Srila Majumder as Meenu, Rana's elder sister
• as Tina, Rana's sister
• Subhasish Mukherjee as Police Constable
• as Meenu
• Monu Mukherjee as Anil Manna, Landlord
• Rajesh Sharma as Tinu
• as MLA Bikash Dutta

Soundtrack[]

Pratibad
Soundtrack album by Babul Bose
Released	May 2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	28:25
Language	Bengali
Label	Venus Music
Producer	Shree Venkatesh Films
Babul Bose chronology
Aasroy (2000) Pratibad (2001) Dada Thakur (2001)
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The album is composed by Babul Bose, while lyrics are penned by Goutam Susmit. The background score is composed by S. P. Venkatesh. Babul Supriyo, Kumar Sanu, Poornima, Sadhana Sargam, Miss Jojo has given their voices for the album.

All lyrics are written by .

References[]

• https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0154146/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140323194851/http://prosenjit.in/home
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TmKE8evCAg
• http://www.gomolo.com/pratibad-movie/15164
• https://www.hotstar.com/in/movies/pratibad/1770002575/watch
• https://www.hungama.com/movie/pratibad/22865644/

External links[]

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