''Mission China'' is a 2017 Indian Assamese-language

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film directed by

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and produced by Garima Saikia Garg as well as Zubeen Garg himself under the banner of "Eye Creation Productions". The film features Zubeen Garg and Deeplina Deka in lead roles and Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan, Siddharth Nipon Goswami, Yankee Parashar, Parthasarathi Mahanta, Pabitra Rabha, Bibhuti Bhushan Hazarika, Tridib Lahon, Nabadweep Borgohain, Ragini Parashar and Bhashwati Bharati in supporting roles. Zubeen also wrote the script and screenplay for the film.

Cast

as Colonel Goswami *

Pabitra Rabha Pabitra Rabha (born 31 January 1976) is an Indian actor, who works in Assamese, Hindi, Bangla and English language films. Early life Pabitra Rabha was born on 31 January 1976 in Tangla, Udalguri district of Assam Assam (, , ) is a sta ...

as Lama * Deeplina Deka as Chayan, Colonel Goswami's love interest * Siddharth Nipon Goswami as Sidd * Yankee Parashar as Ragini, Sidd's love interest * Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan as D'com, a sniper * Tridib Lahon as Spider, a bomb specialist * Priyanka Bharali & Debosmita Banerjee (special appearance in the song "Raat Jwale")

Production

''Mission China'' is produced by Garima Saikia Garg and

under the banner of "I Creation Productions". ''Mission China'' is shot in many exotic locations such as ''Mirza'', ''

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Release

''Mission China'' was released on 8 September 2017 in Assam with nearly 168 daily screenings. The movie has gathered positive responses from fans. The movie is also scheduled to release in

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. The movie was scheduled to release in

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in December 2017. Zubeen Garg says that he is planning to make another part of Mission China and invest more than ₹ 4 crores this time.

Box office

''Mission China'' was released on 8 September across 65 cinema halls, eight of them outside

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including

.The first, second and third day collections were 39.97 lakh, 39.50 lakh and 49 lakh respectively. The fourth day collection was 39 lakh and that of the fifth day was 39 lakh. A total of 2 crore 40 lakh were collected within the first week. Mission China has also beaten the first-day collection record of blockbuster Baahubali and Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan by a considerable margin in Assam. It is currently the 6th highest grossing Assamese film.

Soundtrack

The film contains six songs sung by Zubeen Garg,

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, Siddharth Hazarika, Rohit Sonar, Zublee, Satabdi Borah, Mrinmoyee Goswami and Turi. The lyrics of the songs are written by Zubeen Garg, Sasanka Samir and Sumit Acharya. The first music video of Mission China, ''"Din Jwole Raati Jwole"'' was released on 28 July 2017. It was well received by the listeners with the

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release having gathered around 1.9 lakh views within 24 hours of its release.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt7349218 2017 films Films set in Assam Indian action drama films 2017 action drama films 2010s Assamese-language films Films shot in Meghalaya Films shot in Shillong Films shot in Assam Films shot in Sikkim Tawang Town Indian Army in films Films about insurgency in Northeast India Northeast Indian films