''Kranti: The Revolution'' is a 2006 Indian

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-language

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written, scored and directed by Riingo Banerjee in his directorial debut. Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of

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, the film is an adaptation of

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's Telugu film '' Siva'' (1989). It stars Jeet,

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and

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in the lead roles. The film was a big success in the career of Jeet. It is the 15th film as lead actor of Jeet.The film also was a commercial success. Ashish Vidyarthi was Vishnu (the mafia leader) in this film.

Plot

Jeetendra Ghosh or Jeet ( Jeet) is a student whose family, consisting of his parents and elder sister Devashree Ghosh ( Locket Chatterjee), migrated to the city

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. Since their arrival, they have struggled amongst the crowd to exist. People of

fear Vishnu (

), the local don. His younger brother Deva ( Rishi Kaushik) studies in the same college as Jeet. Deva's gang in the college are the biggest troublemakers, who tease girls and pass bad comments at them. Jeet, who tries to handle the situation, clashes with Deva's gang for a number of times and beats his gang members. In retaliation, Vishnu's goons start attacking his family members and friends. One day they spot Debashree on the road and assaults her. They rape her one by one in public. Police started investigating, and an Inspector named Ronojoy ( Rajesh Sharma) was assigned, and he sought to punish the wrongdoers, but he wasn't able to punish them as Vishnu and his gang were too much powerful and had many politicians support. They also kill his college friend Iqbal (

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) for standing against Vishnu in elections. Jeet, in a fit of rage, killed Vishnu's younger brother Deva inside a car, strangulating his neck with a copper wire to avenge his friend Iqbal's death. Vishnu couldn't bear the loss of his so loving brother, infuriated and disturbingly killed Jeet's father Sridhar Ghosh (Bodhisatwa Majumdar). A helpless and heartbroken Jeet is left with nothing, but only a strong

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the wrongdoers. He becomes determined to kill Vishnu. In the end, Jeet is successful in killing Vishnu, thus fulfilling his revenge.

Cast

* Jeet as Jeetendra Ghosh or Jeet ** Aritra Dutta Banik as Young Jeet *

as Arpita *

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as Sohini Ghosh, Jeet's mother *

as Vishnu, a dreaded gangster supported by politicians * Bodhisattwa Majumdar as Shridhar Ghosh, Jeet's father * Locket Chatterjee as Debashree Ghosh, Jeet's elder sister *

as Iqbal * Raja Chattopadhyay * Rishi Kaushik as Deva, Vishnu's younger brother * Rajesh Sharma as Inspector Ranajoy * Bhola Tamang

Soundtrack

References

2006 films Bengali-language Indian films Films scored by Jeet Gannguli Films scored by Rishi Chanda Films scored by Riingo Banerjee Films scored by Samidh Mukherjee Bengali remakes of Telugu films Films directed by Riingo Banerjee Indian action thriller films Indian action drama films 2006 action thriller films 2006 action drama films 2000s Bengali-language films {{2000s-Bengali-film-stub