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| Directed by | Nitish Roy |
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| Written by | Nitish Roy Debaditya Dutta |
| Produced by | Surajit Das Kallol Das Ranjan Bhattacharjee (Executive Producer) |
| Starring | Mithun Chakraborty Jackie Shroff Ashish Vidyarthi Tinnu Anand |
| Cinematography | Badal Sarkar |
| Edited by | Rabiranjan Maitra |
| Music by | Jeet Gannguli
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| Country | India |
| Language | Punjabi
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Jole Jongole is a 2018 Indian Bengali-language science fiction thriller film directed by Nitish Roy, who was the production designer [1] for the Hollywood horror film Crocodile 2: Death Swamp.
The film stars Mithun Chakraborty as a 'mad' scientist who wants to bring back prehistoric creatures, perished millions of years ago from the earth as he is trying to expand the brain of crocodiles. Jackie Shroff stars as the antagonist who wants to take control of dangerous crocodiles for his own park.
A few scenes of the film were shot in Prayag Film City in West Midnapore, and shooting was completed by early 2012,[2][3][4] but got stuck in development hell and was finally released on 6 January 2018.
Plot
The film is based on the experiment done by a mad scientist (Mithun) who comes up with a lovable crocodile. Like the dolphins, this crocodile was implanted with intelligence. At this point, an NRI (Jackie) eyes this project as he wants to build his own Jurassic Park and wants to get control on this crocodile.
Cast
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Jackie Shroff
- Ashish Vidyarthi
- Tinnu Anand[5]
- Dibyendu Bhattacharya
- Dijana Dejanovic
- Biswajit Chakraborty
- Mumtaz Sorcar
- Titas Bhowmick
- Pamela Singh Bhutoria [6]
- Sayantani Guhathakurta
- Riju Biswas
- Sayak
- Rajdeep Gupta
- Anindya Chatterjee
- Dhruba Lal
- Mumaith Khan as item number ""
Soundtrack
Remake
The film will be remade in Hindi as Gehra Paani with a higher budget than the Bengali version. For the Hindi version, the cast and location will remain same except Mithun Chakraborty, who will be replaced by Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Both the versions are being made at a budget of Template:INRConvert and would be shot in the Sunderban.[7][8][9]
Critical reception
Release
References
- ↑ Tolly's tryst with a croc. The Times of India(4 December 2011).
- ↑ No small wonder(5 February 2012).
- ↑ Fun unlimited at 'Jole Jongole' sets. The Times of India(12 March 2012).
- ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/film-city-in-west-bengal-to-be-ready-this-year/
- ↑ Hello, Rakhi. The Telegraph (Calcutta)(17 June 2012).
- ↑ After Kahaani. The Telegraph (Calcutta)(21 April 2012).
- ↑ Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu to star in remake of ' Jole Jongole'. The Hindu(2 January 2012).
- ↑ Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha to star in Hindi remake of Bengali film. Indian Express(1 January 2012).
- ↑ sify.com