Draft:Pratikar(1987)



Pratikar
Directed byPrabhat Roy
Written byPrabhat Roy
Screenplay byPrabhat Roy
Produced byPranab Basu
StarringVictor Banerjee
Chiranjeet Chakraborty
Debashree Roy
Madhabi Chakraborty
Utpal Dutta
Satabdi Roy
Shakuntala Barua
Biplab Chatterjee
Sukhen Das
Chhaya Devi
Nimu Bhowmik
CinematographyKrishna Chakraborty
Edited byPranab Ghosh
Rabin Sen
Music byBappi Lahiri
Production
company
Chandima Films
Distributed byChandima Films
Release date
17 April 1987
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Pratikar (English: Prevention) is a 1987 Indian Bengali language vigilante action film written and directed by Prabhat Roy.[1][2] Produced by Chandima Films in their 2nd production.[3], the film stars Victor Banerjee, Chiranjeet Chakraborty and Debashree Roy in lead roles, while Utpal Dutta, Madhabi Chakraborty, Satabdi Roy, Shakuntala Barua, Sukhen Das, Biplab Chatterjee, Chhaya Devi and Nimu Bhowmik play supporting roles. The screenplay and dialogues were also written by Prabhat Roy himself. The soundtrack album and background score was composed by Bappi Lahiri[4], with the lyrics penned by Gauriprasanna Mazumder. It plots the story of an intelligent student Shankar, who becomes vigilante after the violent murder of his mother and brutal rape of his sister, by the local goons who kidnaps women and sell them outsides. When he starts avenging, DSP Rajib Chowdhury who is childhood friend of Shankar, comes on the board to investigate the murder mysteries done by Shankar.

Pratikar marks the 2nd collaboration between Prabhat Roy and Victor Banerjee and the 1st collaboration between Roy and Chiranjeet Chakraborty. It was an all time blockbuster at the box office and ran more than 42 weeks in theatres. It received a number of positive reviews from critics, with appreciation for it's screenplay and direction, performances by the whole casting, stylized action sequences and the massy portrayal of the protagonist in the film. This film created a new image of Victor Banerjee, that of an action hero which became favourable among the masses. In the pre-interval scene, the murder and rape scene was portrayed violently in a Bengali film, for the first time, so the film got A certificate from the Censor Board[5]

In the year 1988, Pratikar was remade in Telugu and Tamil as Raktha Tilakam starring Venkatesh and Thaimel Aanai starring Arjun Sarja respectively and later it was remade in 1991 under the same title featuring Anil Kapoor as the protagonist.

  1. ^ "Prabhat Roy unveils the cover of his autobiography". The Times of India. 2024-06-17. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
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  3. ^ "A Bengali masala movie for classes and masses". The Times of India. 2004-09-26. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  4. ^ Sony Music East (2020-02-06). Pratikar | Movie Song Audio Jukebox | Bengali Songs 2020 | Sony Music East. Retrieved 2024-06-15 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "Prime Video: Pratikar". www.primevideo.com. Retrieved 2024-06-13.

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