Tonic (film)
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Directed by | Avijit Sen |
Produced by | Atanu Raychaudhuri & Pranab Kumar Guha |
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Cinematography | Supriyo Dutta |
Edited by | Sujay Datta Ray |
Music by | Score Raja Narayan Deb Songs Jeet Ganguly |
Production company | Bengal Talkies & Dev Entertainment Ventures |
Distributed by | Bengal Talkies |
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Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Budget | 1 crore |
Box office | 4.75 crore |
Tonic is a 2021 Bengali family drama film directed by Avijit Sen and produced by Atanu Raychaudhuri starring Dev, Paran Bandopadhyay and Shakuntala Barua.[2][3][4][5]The film is declared an 'All time blockbuster' in the box office and the second highest grossing film of 2021 in Bengali cinema.
Plot[]
Tonic tells us the story of 75 yrs old retired Jaladhar Sen who lives with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Their relationship is hampered due to authoritative attitude and over possessiveness of son. The story spins around the old couple's trouble due to the family's behavior and intensifies, when son and daughter-in-law celebrate their marriage anniversary in a grand way but their 46th marriage anniversary celebration is planned to be just a small get-together. The old plans for a foreign trip and thus comes to a travel agent named Tonic who later turns out to be a miracle maker in life. The foreign trip got cancelled as the passport of Jaladhar's wife got rejected due to the non-availability of some important documents.Jaladhar rebuked Tonic a lot as all his dreams got shattered. But,later the old couple planned for a visit to darjeeling where Tonic still accompanies them .Later,it is the blissful presence of Tonic that brings back the lost happiness and love in the Sen family. Jaladhar was very grateful to tonic as it was because of him that he came to know what it means to live the life to its fullest.[6]
Cast[]
- Dev as Tonic[7]
- Paran Bandopadhyay as Jaladhar Sen[7]
- Shakuntala Barua as Uma Sen/Jaladhar's Wife[7]
- Sujan Mukhopadhyay as Partha Sen - Jaladhar's Son [8]
- Rajatabha Dutta[9] as Police officer
- Biswanath Basu[9]
- Biswajit Chakraborty[9] as Jaladhar's close friend
- Koneenica Banerjee as Rani - Daughter-in-law of Jaladhar[10]
- Tanushree Chakraborty[11]
- Kanchan Mullick[12] as fake document creator
- Tulika Basu as Rani's mother
- B.D Mukherjee as Tonic's late father
- Pinky Mullick as maid of Sen family
- Sriparna Roy as Neha
- Subha Roy Chowdhury as Neha's husband
- Roopkatha Kundu as Rumi Jaladhar Sen's grand daughter
Soundtrack[]
Tonic | ||||
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Released | 4 December 2021[13] | |||
Studio | Playhead Studio | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Language | Bengali | |||
Label | Zee Music Company | |||
Jeet Gannguli chronology | ||||
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The soundtrack is composed by Jeet Gannguli and lyrics by Prosen, Srijato and Anindya Chatterjee.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Tonic -Title Track" | Prosen, Anindya Chatterjee | Anindya Chatterjee, Snigdhajit Bhowmick, Gourab Sarkar, Satish Gajmer And Kinjal Chattopadhyay | 3:24 |
2. | "Aaynate" | Prosen, Avijit Sen | Anupam Roy | 2:51 |
3. | "E Mon Eka(Female)" | Srijato | Shreya Ghoshal | 4:23 |
4. | "E Mon Eka(Male)" | Srijato | Nachiketa Chakraborty | 4:23 |
Total length: | 15:01 |
References[]
- ^ Dasgupta, Priyanka (2 December 2021). "Clash of premieres marks Tollywood 'bounce-back' | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "'টনিক'-এর চরিত্রে অদলবদল". anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ "কালিম্পঙে দেবের 'টনিক'". Indian Express Bangla (in Bengali). 16 November 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ BookMyShow. "Tonic Movie (2020) | Reviews, Cast & Release Date in Kolkata". BookMyShow. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ "'টনিক' হাতে কাকে 'স্বাগত' জানাতে সকাল সকাল কালিম্পঙে দেব?". NDTVMovies.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ "Know the story of Dev's next 'Tonic' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ a b c Sampita, Das (2 July 2021). "পুজোয় দেবের ডবল ধামাকা". EI Samay (in Bengali).
- ^ Ruman, Ganguly (31 October 2019). "Sujan thrilled to play Paran Bandopadhyay's son - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ a b c Sarkar, Roushni (1 July 2021). "Dev Adhikari, Paran Bandopadhyay film Tonic to be released this Durga Puja". Cinestaan.
- ^ Ganguly, Ruman (17 January 2020). "What's Koneenica doing on her third anniversary?". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Sarkar, Roushni (11 March 2020). "Tonic teaser: Enough similarities with Dev Adhikari's Sanjhbati character". Cinestaan.
- ^ Sarkar, Roushni (25 December 2021). "Tonic review: Paran Bandopadhyay's screen presence makes this film worth a watch". Cinestaan.
- ^ "Tonic – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Jiosaavn.
External links[]
- 2021 films
- Bengali-language films
- Indian films
- 2020s Bengali-language films
- Indian drama films
- Films produced by Dev (Bengali actor)
- 2021 drama films