''Sabuj Dwiper Raja'' is a 1979 Indian

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directed by

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, based on the same name novel of

Kakababu Kakababu, or Raja Roy Chowdhury, is a fictional adventurer created by Bengali people, Bengali author Sunil Gangopadhyay. The series debuted in the 1971 Puja issue of Anandamela, Anandamela magazine with ''Bhoyonkor Sundor'', and quickly became ...

Sunil Gangopadhyay Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (September 7, 1934 – October 23, 2012) was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic. He played a key role in modernizing Bengali poetry and co-founded the 1953 Avant-garde, avant-gra ...

Synopsis

A criminal gang led by notorious smuggler Panja is set to steal a secret source of energy that emanates from a

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that has landed on a remote area of

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. They know that the local tribe jarwas have no idea of its value. A patriot, Mr. Gunada Talukdar, flees from the notorious

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during the

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. He reaches the island and is later chosen as King of the tribals. Thirteen-year-old Santu joins his uncle Raja Roychoudhury alias Kakababu who is sent on behalf of the Intelligence to survey the island. The two leave Calcutta by ship for the Andaman Islands. Santu's sharp eye soon detects that the criminals are on board. Santu is instrumental in helping his uncle prevent the dastardly plot the criminals are about to carry out. Kakababu and Santu went to the alienated island of Jarawas ignoring the government restrictions. In the meantime Panja and his henchmen were captured by Jarwas while they were trying to steal the power energy. Kakababu recognised the leader of jarwa, the old man as Mr. Talukdar, and after a short fight with Panja's gang they returned to the mainland with the help of police.

Cast

* Samit Bhanja as

*Arunava Adhikari as Shantu *

Lily Chakravarty Lily Chakravarty is an Indian actress. She worked in many Bengali and Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari ...

as Shontu's Mother *

Biplab Chatterjee Biplab Chatterjee is an Indian actor and director of television and films, mostly associated with the Bengali Film industry. Career Biplab started his film career with Satyajit Ray in his film '' Pratidwandi''. He is popular for his antagonis ...

as Kalla *

Rabi Ghosh Robi Ghosh (; 24 November 1931 – 4 February 1997) was an Indian actor known for his work in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is known for his comic appeal, though his versatile acting talent brought him success in various kinds ...

as Gute da *

Nirmal Kumar Nirmal Kumar (; born 14 December 1928, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian actor who appears in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali and Hindi films. Nirmal Kumar is married to actress Madhabi Mukherjee and has two daughters. He won the B.F.J.A award for ...

as Superintendent of Police * Kalyan Chatterjee *Arun Mukherjee *Ramen Roy Chowdhury *Asim Dutta *Debatosh Ghosh *Nipu Mitra

Reception

Although questionable on the ground of showing the Jarawa tribal-folk just as the colonial British government would specifically mark out the then resident Indian population-groups as uncivilized, belligerent sub-human '

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', the film gained considerable popularity by synthesizing educative knowledge-bits for young filmgoers (and their parents), exotic adventure and

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References

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