''Borbaad '' is an 2014 Indian Bengali language action film directed by

Raj Chakraborty Raj Chakraborty (born 21 February 1975) is an Indian film director, actor, producer and politician. He is one of the most commercially successful film-makers in Tollywood. Before directing his debut film, he was busy in Bengali TV. Raj Chakrabo ...

and debut starring

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's nephew

Bonny Sengupta Bonny Sengupta (Born Anupriyo Sengupta; 10 August 1990) is an Indian Bengali film actor. His first two films, '' Borbaad'' and ''Parbona Ami Chartey Tokey'', were directed by Raj Chakraborty. His father is Anup Sengupta and his mother Piya Sengu ...

and

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in lead roles. Trailer of this film was released on 6 June 2014. The film released on 14 August 2014. The film is a remake of Tamil movie Polladavan.

Plot

Joy, a worthless chap whose ambition in life is to buy a bike so that he can impress Nandini. While his life improves after he buys the bike as he lands a job soon after, trouble starts soon after, when his bike gets stolen. He starts getting into an altercation with Imran, the younger brother of Akram, the local don, who is extremely hot headed than his elder brother. However the elder brother never harms elderly people or people other than target and only targets people like him. How Joy manages to keep up his rivalry with Imran and yet come out unscathed till the end and retrieves his bike is what the story is all about.

Cast

as Joy *

as Nandini * Mainak Banerjee as local goon Imran * Sudip Mukherjee as Akram, Imran's elder brother and a dreaded gangster * Tulika Basu as Joy's Mother * Prabir Dutta as Joy's Father * Vashkar Dev as Rajnikant * Pradip Dhar as Ali Bhai *

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Soundtrack

Critical Reception

Borbaad got mostly mixed to negative reviews. Madhushree Ghosh of ''

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'' rated the movie 2 and a half stars out of 5. She states that Raj was not in a mood of making a good plot unlike his earlier films such as '' Proloy'' and ''

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'' and that's why he leans on making a merely dull love story and some amount of South Indian Film oriented violence. She was also highly critical towards the lead characters' performances stating a emotionless, dull, charisma-lacking acting by both Bonny and Rittika but praised the performance of Sudip Mukherjee as a Muslim Mafia Don. Shoma A. Chatterji of ''

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'' commented that "The editing and cinematography of the action scenes are credible and good but what fails the film miserably is the performance of the romantic lead portrayed by Bonny and Ritika. The only good thing about the movie is Sudip Mukherjee as a ruthless Mafia leader. But ultimately the film is a not-so good one of Raj Chakrobarty". But still it was a blockbuster at box-office

References

External links

* {{Baba Yadav 2014 films Bengali remakes of Tamil films Films scored by Arindam Chatterjee Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films Films directed by Raj Chakraborty