''Le Chakka'' () is a 2010 Indian Bengali-language

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co-written and directed by

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. Produced by Shyam Aggarwal under the banner of Srijan Arts, the screenplay and dialogues of the film were by Padmanabha Dasgupta and Abhimanyu Mukherjee. The movie is an adaptation of the 2007 Tamil film '' Chennai 600028''. It stars Dev, Ritwick Chakraborty and

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in lead roles, while

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, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dipankar De,

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, Laboni Sarkar, Biswanath Basu, Parthasarathi Chakraborty, Pradip Dhar, Prasun Gain, Ritwick Chakraborty and Anindya Banerjee play another pivotal roles. The soundtrack and background score was composed by Indraadip Das Gupta. ''Le Chakka'' marks the second collaboration between Dev and Raj Chakraborty after ''Challenge'' (2009). The film received positive reviews from the audiences, while critics were appraisal of the portrayal of the famous 'Rock culture' in North Kolkata; differences between North and South Kolkata; 'Khep Khela', a popular term of

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taken places in North Kolkata. This movie was a Super-Hit in Box-Office.

Plot

11 Bullets is a very bad cricket team of North Kolkata. The team is formed by the people of the locality, who have various professions. The film starts 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

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of Abir's tenant house, stars having regular quarrels with Abir. Then, Abir discovers that a political leader is trying to grab Dorjipara, and for that, the leader wants the tenant house, which the landlord does not 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 versa. Then slowly, Abir gets intimate with Rani, which her brother Rajat does not 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, not Ratna. Ratna kills herself. 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 have a tensed and marvelous win, and Abir has a romantic win over Rani.

Cast

Soundtrack

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, Prosen and Srijit Mukherji.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Chakka 2010 films 2010s Bengali-language films Bengali-language Indian films Films about cricket in India Indian sports comedy films Films scored by Indradeep Dasgupta Films set in Kolkata 2010s sports comedy films Films directed by Raj Chakraborty 2010 comedy films Indian sports films Works about Ali Eskay Movies Bengali remakes of Tamil films