''Kalishankar'' or ''Kalisankar'' is a

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in Odia and Bengali language by director

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in 2007. ''Kalishankar'' is quite 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. ''Kalishankar'' is a story of a pair of grandchildren and their grandfather's revenge on their wrongdoers. The film has much stick-wielding action.

Plot

Kali, Shankar and Tithi are the three motherless children of the acting priest of a local Krishna temple in an anonymous small town/village in West Bengal or Odisha (differing between the language versions). The local MLA Debu Soren’s henchmen kill their father because he insists on standing witness in court against a murder committed at Soren’s behest. Kali, the elder brother, kills the corrupt lawyer as he walks out of the courtroom after the judge has delivered his judgement. Kali goes to jail for ten years. Shankar meets with a freak accident and is brought up by a local Muslim fakir. But the accident has left him with a memory loss and a penchant for violence. He grows up to be one of Debu Soren’s favourite henchmen. The little girl Tithi, who is picked off the streets by the maid of Debu’s mistress, grows up to become a wayward girl on the verge of turning alcoholic. After ten long years, Kali is released. He returns to the temple to meet his grandfather who was away when Kali’s father was killed. The grandfather, a temple priest, encourages the grandson to avenge his father’s death. Kali, Shankar and Tithi are united and from then on, it is one long chain networking of fighting, 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.

Odia film

''Kali Shankar'' ( or, କାଳୀ ଶଂକର) is the Oriya film version starring

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, Anubhav Mohanty, Arindam Roy, Meghna Mishra and Ashish Vidyarthi.

Cast

as Kali *

* Anubhav Mohanty as Shankar * Arindam Roy as police officer *Meghna Mishra as Tithi *

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as priest *

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as grandfather *

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as MP Debu Soren

Music

* "Chota Chota" * "De Daru" * "Jhip Jhip Barsa" * "Megha Bijuli" * "Rati Helani"

Bengali film

''Kalishankar'' is a 2007 Indian

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film starring

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, Anubhav Mohanty,

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, Sagarika, Swastika Mukherjee and

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. Shoma A. Chatterji of www.screenindia.com commented that this movie is Manmohan Desai wine in Bengali bottle.

Cast

as Kali * Anubhav Mohanty as Shankar, Kali's younger brother *

as A corrupt politician, MP Debu Soren *

as Shreya, Kali's love interest * Swastika Mukherjee as Jhimli, Shankar's love interest *

as SP Bikram *

as Grandfather of Kali and Shankar * Sagarika as Tithi * Laboni Sarkar as Maya (Guest Appearance) * Rajatava Dutta as Gittu Hotelwala *

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as Bala Brahmachari * Kaushik Banerjee as Police Commissioner *

Shankar Chakraborty Shankar Chakraborty is an Indian film and television actor who has done several tele serials and has appeared in pivotal roles in numerous Bengali films. Personal life Shankar Chakraborty was born to a Bengali Hindu family. He married actress S ...

as Priest Beni Madhav, Kali & Shankar's father * Sumit Ganguly as Debu Soren's henchman * Debesh Roy Chowdhury as Jayanta Das, lawyer

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalishankar (2007 Film) Bengali-language Indian films 2007 films 2000s Bengali-language films Indian multilingual films Odia remakes of Hindi films Bengali remakes of Hindi films 2000s Odia-language films Films directed by Prashanta Nanda