Chander Pahar

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Movie Info

Shankar Roy Chowdhary, a 20-year-old man from Bengal, leaves his family and goes to Africa in search of gold and diamond mines.

Genre:

adventure
Original Language:

Bangla
Director:

Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Producer:

Shrikant Mohta, Mahendra Soni
Writer:

Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Release Date (Theaters):

Jan 10, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 5, 2015
Runtime:

2h 28m

Cast & Crew

Dev
Shankar

Gérard Rudolf
Diego Alvarez

Martin Cito Otto
Jim Carter

Nabeel Khan
Tirumal Appa

Paul Ditchfield
Jacobus Marius

David James
Albuquerque

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Critic Reviews for Chander Pahar

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Director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee's film version of the popular 1937 adventure novel by Bibhutishushan Bandyopadhyay struggles mightily for an epic quality.

December 13, 2015 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
There isn't much to recommend the film, which only escapes being truly awful by a complete absence of meanness and a compelling lead performance by Dev.

January 13, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Danny Bowes
RogerEbert.com
The thrills seem to have evaporated from Kamaleswar Mukherjee's handsome, slow-moving adaptation of a classic Bengali novel.

January 12, 2014 | Full Review…

David Chute
Variety
Painfully awkward in execution, from the stiff dialogue to the time-padding slo-mo sequences and glaring CGI.

January 10, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Sara Stewart
New York Post
The many misspellings in the film's subtitles do liven things up, even if the film's patchwork use of Bengali, Swahili, Portuguese and English make them somewhat inevitable.

January 10, 2014 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Tom Long
Detroit News
One reason "Chander Pahar" seems so plodding is that Mr. Mukherjee has a habit of telling us what he doesn't know how to show.

January 9, 2014 | Full Review…

Rachel Saltz
New York Times
Kudos to Kamaleswar for thinking big. He's walking a new path here for Bengali cinema and like Shankar, he's dreamt of uncharted lands he wants to conquer.

December 13, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Satadru Ojha
The Times of India
By trying to stay faithful to the original novel, director and screenwriter Kamaleswar Mukherjee may have sabotaged the film. Much of what happens here is hard to swallow

January 9, 2014 | Full Review…

Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International