Ram Laxman (2004 film)

Ram Laxman
Ram Laxman
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Babu Ray
Produced by	Jhuna Majumdar&Narayan Ghosh
Starring	See below
Music by	Babul Bose
Release date	2004
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Ram Laxman (রাম লক্ষণ) is a 2004 Bengali film directed by Babu Ray and produced by Jhuna Majumdar &Narayan Ghosh. The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anu Chowdhury, Tota Ray Chowdhury in the lead roles. Music of the film has been composed by Babul Bose.^[1]

Plot[]

The story begins with Subhankar Sanyal and Madhuri Sanyal being both husband and wife living in Darjeeling. Subhankar's wife feels pride in calling his husband a brave, honest and fearless cop. One night, he got a call from a hospital where a child is being left deserted and the Doctor Rajat Das asked him to adopt that child. Subhankar came to know that the child's father was a bandit and he refused to take the child but his wife encouraged him to take him and they should name him 'Ram'. Later, they threw a party and amidst that Subhankar received a phone call where he learned that a school headmaster has been murdered due to political events and that has been done by Chadu, son of Police minister, Ranabir Choudhury. Subhankar took warrant and went to arrest Chadu which Ranabir didn't like and told him to go back but his wife got her son arrested to Subhankar.

On son's arrest, Ranabir told his henchmen to kill Subhankar and they killed him by his service revolver in 3 bullets. On funeral, Madhuri asked his elder son Ram to pledge before his father's dead body to take revenge against the culprits and also proclaimed that she would make his younger son a brave and fearless cop much higher than their father. One night, Ranabir told his henchmen to set Subhankar's house on fire so that they all should die and he should not be left with any more thorns on his way. Ranabir's wife Meena saved them and told them to escape to Kolkata. They came back to Kolkata and found themselves in a very poor state and started living.

Eventually, both Ram and Laxman grew up to be an honest, brave and fearless persons while one always protest for injustice and other being policeman. Laxman falls in love with Pinky who is Ranabir's daughter. In the other hand, Ram started standing by good and beating up bad people while in mind feeding the grudge he had for Ranabir Choudhury. He learnt that Ranabir Choudhury will be attending a meeting at Darjeeling so, he went to kill him but he couldn't kill him as Ranabir couldn't attend the meeting due to his bad health. Ram met with Radha after saving her from a group of goons and falls in love with her.

He came back to Kolkata and he started fighting for injustice yet again one of his friends love a minister's daughter who was trying to marry off his daughter to someone else. Ram protested that and took her away from marriage hall. Ram and Radha started meeting each other and they developed a strong bond between them. The minister Pratap Choudhury had a heated argument with Laxman upon his Son-in-law's arrest on a drug smuggling case and Ram threatened him to control himself otherwise he would kill him. Pratap Choudhury got his henchmen to kill Laxman but he failed as the bullet only touched his left arm. Ram and Madhuri rushed to hospital to know that Ram was not the biological son of Subhankar and Madhuri. Shocked by being a bandit's son he asked Madhuri to say why they used him since childhood and didn't prioritize his happiness and desires. Madhuri consoled Ram.

Angered Ram went to Pratap's house only to kill his entire family as he learnt that he was the main culprit. Police started searching for Ram whereas Ram stood hiding in Radha's house where Ranabir's henchmen came to kill Ram but upon saving Ram, Radha was killed by them. Finally, Ram succeed in taking revenge on Ranabir and his son Chadu by shooting the same three bullets; one in Ranabir's left toe, second in right one and lastly in the back but eventually succumbed to Laxman's bullet.

Cast[]

Prosenjit Chatterjee as Ram Sanyal, adopted son of Subhankar
Anu Chowdhury as Radha, Ram's love interest
Abdur Razzak as Subhankar Sanyal, an honest and upright police officer
Tota Ray Chowdhury as Laxman Sanyal, biological son of Subhankar & Ram's younger brother
Sandhya Roy as Madhuri Sanyal, mother of Ram & Laxman
as Police Minister Ranabir Chowdhury, the main antagonist
Mrinal Mukherjee as Pratap Chowdhury, the second antagonist
Anuradha Ray as Meena Chowdhury, Ranabir Chowdhury's wife
as Pinky Chowdhury, Laxman's love interest
Arun Banerjee as ACP Das
Biswajit Chakraborty as Dr. Rajat Das, Subhankar's close friend & doctor
as Headmaster
Soma Dey as Headmaster's wife
as Hospital nurse
Sumit Ganguly as Ranabir's henchman