Le Chakka
| Le Chakka | |
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 Dev and Payal in a still | |
| Directed by | Raj Chakraborty |
| Produced by | Shyam Agarwal |
| Written by | Padmanava Dasgupta |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Indraadip Das Gupta |
| Cinematography | Somak Mukherjee |
| Studio | Srijan Arts |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Budget |
 2.3 crore (US$370,000) |
| Box office |
24 crore (US$3.8 million) |
Le Chakka (Bengali: লে ছ্ক্কা; English: Take a Sixer) is a 2010 Bengali-language sports comedy film written by Padmanava Dasgupta and directed by Raj Chakraborty. The film stars Dev and Payal Sarkar as the lead pair of the film along with the talented bunch of actors like Kharaj Mukherjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, Biswajit Chakraborty, Aritra Dutta Banik, Dipankar Dey, Laboni Sarkar, Biswanath Basu, Debjani Chattopadhyay and Padmanava Dasgupta himself to name a few.The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Indraadip Das Gupta.
The film, based on street cricket played in India and focussing on various themes as friendship, love and Ghoti-Bangal rivalry in Kolkata, released on 10 June 2010 and went on to become one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. The success of the film established Raj Chakraborty as a very popular and a household name in Tollywood.
Plots
11 bullets is a very bad cricket team of North Kolkata. The team is formed with the people of the locality, who have various professions. The film stars with a match between 11 bullets and a cricket team of South Kolkata. The hero, named Abir, alone smashes 11 bullets. The team members of 11 bullets are then abused by the people of their locality. In the meantime, Abir comes with his family to stay at Dorjipara, which is the locality of 11 bullets. But, due to huge cultural deference between North Kolkata and South Kolkata, Abir becomes irritated to stay over there. The niece of the landlord of Abir’s tenant house, stars having regular quarrels with Abir. Then one day, Abir comes to know that some political leader is trying to grab Dorjipara, and for that, the leader wants the tenant house, which the landlord doesn’t want to sell. When Abir teaches the 11 bullets people, that without protesting against these political evils, they will not be able to survive, slowly, those people come close to Abir, and vice Verse. Then slowly, Abir gets intimate with Rani, which her brother Rajat doesn’t like. A Person, Shankar, who is attached to that leader comes and gets involved with the unmarried, frustrated, elder sister of Rani, named Ratna. But, when Shankar says that, he wants to marry Rani, and not Ratna. Then Ratna commits suicide. Ultimately, when the party leaders come to take control over Dorjipara, Abir throws a challenge of a cricket match, which is going to decide, who’s going to get control over the house. 11 bullets get a tensed and marvelous win, and Abir gets a romantic win over Rani.
Cast
- Dev as Abir
- Payal Sarkar as Rani
- Kharaj Mukherjee as Ismail Biriyaniola
- Biswanath Basu as Gour
- Biswajit Chakraborty as Abir's father
- Laboni Sarkar as Abir's mother
- Dipankar Dey as Rani's uncle
- Debjani Chattopadhyay as Ratna(Rani's elder sister)
- Supriyo Dutta as Rani's father
- Ritwick Chakraborty as Rajat(Rani's Brother)
- Abhimanyu Mukherjee as commentator
- Aritra Dutta Banik
Soundtrack
| Le Chakka | |
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| Soundtrack album by Indraadip Das Gupta | |
| Released | 14 May 2010 |
| Recorded | 2010 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label | Five Star |
The film score of the film as well as the soundtrack was scored by Indraadip Das Gupta. The soundtrack, featuring 5 tracks overall, was released on 14 May 2010 in India. The lyrics were written by Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijit Mukherjee.
The album was both critically acclaimed and gained immense popularity upon its release, being described as, "excellent", a "rocking album".
| Track | Song | Singer(s) | Duration (min:sec) | Lyricist | Notes |
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| 1 | "Ua Ua Ee" | Shaan, June Banerjee | 4:56 | Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato | |
| 2 | "Shabba Rabba Reeba Ru" | Kunal Ganjawalla, Monali Thakur | 5:00 | Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato | |
| 3 | "Ali Maula" | Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan, Shahadab Hussain | 6:04 | Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato | |
| 4 | "Ekta Bindaas Para" | Kunal Ganjawalla, Shahdab Hussain, Prasenjit Mukherjee | 4:38 | Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato | |
| 5 | "Le Chakka" | Kunal Ganjawalla, Prasenjit Mukherjee | 4:24 | Priyo Chattopadhyay, Prasenjit Mukherjee and Srijato |
Marketing
The movie has utilized viral marketing in Indian movie news website, indiaglitz.com. Trivial news about the movie production was updated regularly until its release.
Box office
- The film was a big hit across Bengal.
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