Kalishankar (2007 Bengali film)

Kalishankar Bengali is a 2007 Bengali film directed by Prashanta Nanda. The film stars Prasenjit Chatterjee, Anu Chowdhury, Anuvab Mohanty, Jisshu Sengupta, Ashish Vidyarthi, Swastika Mukherjee and Victor Banerjee. This BengaliOriya film is a remake of Rakesh Roshans film Karan Arjun on the theme of reincarnation. Director Prashant Nanda turned the story around Instead of being the story of the offspring played by Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan in the original it is the story of a pair of grandchildren and their grandfathers revenge on their wrongdoers. He plays the grandfather. The film has much stickwielding action. Shoma A. Chatterji of www.screenindia.com commented that this movie is Manmohan Desai wine in Bengali bottle. Kalishankar is similar to old Manmohan Desai films wherein brothers separated in childhood grow up to find themselves on two sides of the fence. Then, when they recognise their blood link through a birthmark or a talisman, they join forces to fight the enemy together.

After ten long years, Kali is released. He returns to the temple to meet his grandfather who was away when Kalis father was killed. The grandfather, a temple priest, encourages the grandson to avenge his fathers death. Kali, Shankar and Tithi are united and from then on, it is one long chain networking of maramari, dishoomdishoom, blood and gore and the killing of the criminals one after the other in the same way their father was killed by electric shock. The two young men come home to roost and it is one big happy family in the temple with their two girlfriends pitching in and Tithi hoping to tie the knot with the handsome young police officer.

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