Pratibad

Pratibad
File:Pratibad Movie.jpg Pratibad film poster
Directed by	Haranath Chakraborty
Produced by	Srikant Mohata
Written by	Anjan Chowdhury (Story, Screenplay & Dialogues)
Starring	Prosenjit Chatterjee Arpita Pal Ranjit Mallick Laboni Sarkar Deepankar De
Music by	Songs: Babul Bose Background Score: S. P. Venkatesh
Cinematography	V. Prabhakar
Edited by	Swapan Guha
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
• Pushpita Mukherjee as Tina, Rana's sister
• Subhasish Mukherjee as Police Constable
• Mitali Chakraborty as Meenu
• Monu Mukherjee as Anil Manna, Landlord
• Rajesh Sharma as Tinu
• Debesh Roy Chowdhury 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 at 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 Gautam Susmit.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ki Holo Ki Hobe"	Gautam Susmit	Kumar Sanu & Poornima
2.	"Aasbe Ghare Khokon Sona"	Gautam Susmit	Babul Supriyo & Sadhana Sargam
3.	"Elo Monete Basanto Bahar"	Gautam Susmit	Poornima
4.	"Charidike Lutpat Hahakar (Title Track)"	Gautam Susmit	Miss Jojo
5.	"Jakhoni Jedike Chai"	Gautam Susmit	Sadhana Sargam
6.	"Koli Kale Ghore Koli Haar"	Gautam Susmit	Babul Supriyo, Arshad & Priya Bhattacharya
Total length:				28:25

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/