Maybe this was one of the reasons why the computer graphics kind of sucked in a few situations. I won’t bother talking about them.įor a movie shot in Africa, using real animals, impressive stunts and great performances from all leading actors, I’m glad that they managed to pull it off with a $2.5 million budget.
There were quite a few noticeable goofs as well in the movie. I didn’t get why they just didn’t use Bengali subtitles though, instead of making half the conversations between an Indian and a Portuguese in Bengali. Maybe, the production team decided to make this (small?) sacrifice to increase the reach of the film to a wider audience, especially from rural villages of West Bengal. It’s really unusual for a Portuguese and it wasn’t like this in the original story. Diego spoke, like pure English 50% of times, and almost pure Bengali the rest of the time. The scene of the volcano and in other minor situations, the cheapness was quite obvious in the graphics.ĭirector Kamaleshwar Mukhopadhyay changed a few minor things of the story, but they aren’t too big to worry too much about. I didn’t really get why he made Diego Alvarez and a Masai lady (probably) speak Bengali though.
Unfortunately, the special effects weren’t. The lions, the snake, and the elephants were great as well. Gerard Rudolf was great as ‘Diego Alvarez’. He was preferred for the role by the director primary for his athletic, tall, muscular build, which was ideal for the role of ‘Shankar’. Although, the lack of depth in his acting was more prominent in some scenes than the others. The experience overall was really good.ĭev, who portrayed the main character ‘Shankar’ in this movie, was much better than in his usually brainless roles in Bengali commercial flicks. Like I said already, this was a first time experience for me, watching a Bengali movie of this class in a theater. Well, first of all, watch the trailer of Chander Pahar. I’d say I wasn’t entirely disappointed by this flick, and it in fact deserves a lot of praise for a few things.
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