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| Chengiz | |
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 theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Rajesh Ganguly |
| Written by | Neeraj Pandey Rajesh Ganguly |
| Screenplay by | Rajesh Ganguly |
| Based on | Calcutta Underworld |
| Produced by | Jeet Gopal Madnani Amit Jumrani |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Manas Ganguly |
| Edited by | Malay Laha |
| Music by | Kaushik Guddu Aneek Dhar Beatz MA |
Production companies | Grassroot Entertainment Jeetz Filmworks |
| Distributed by | Jeetz Filmworks (Bengali) AA Films (Hindi) |
Release date |
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Running time | 153 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Chengiz is an 2023 Indian Bengali-language period action crime thriller film co-written and directed by Rajesh Ganguly from a story written by Neeraj Pandey. It is produced by Jeet, Gopal Madnani and Amit Jumrani. It stars Jeet, Susmita Chatterjee, Rohit Roy and Shataf Figar. The music was composed by Kaushik Guddu and Aneek Dhar, with the action sequences by Stunt Silva.
Chengiz was theatrically released in India on 21 April 2023 in Bengali, along with its dubbed version in Hindi. It is the first Bengali film to be released simultaneously in Bengali and Hindi languages. It was a box-office success and became the highest grossing Bengali film of 2023.[6]
Premise[edit]
In 1976, Jaidev Singh finishes a gangster named Rashid Khan, a henchman of a local councillor, in order to avenge his parents' death and steps into the Calcutta underworld at the age of 16, where he starts working for a powerful gangster Md. Omar alias Nalli Bhai and also changes his name as Chengiz. After working with Nalli Bhai, in 1995, Chengiz starts to establish his own crime ring across Bengal, UP and Bihar, but his life changes when he has to deal with his maternal uncle ACP Samir Sinha, who is appointed to eradicate Chengiz's crime ring. Somehow in 2001, Chengiz managed to escape from Calcutta in disguise and the police failed to arrest him. At the end, in 2022, at Marakkesh, Morocco, Jaidev alias Chengiz (now old) is seen having lunch at a hotel, thus implying that he is still operating some parts of Kolkata from there itself (proving himself to be an era of the Calcutta underworld) and always keeping a constant close watch on his uncle Samir Sinha.
Cast[edit]
- Jeet in dual role as
- Jaidev Singh aka Chengiz, a dreaded underworld gangster of Calcutta
- Daniel D'Souza, a software engineer [7]
- Ayush Das as teenage Jaidev Singh
- Rohit Roy as ACP Samir Sinha[8]
- Susmita Chatterjee as Nandini Sen, Chengiz's girlfriend-cum-wife
- Rooqma Ray as Debjani, Debu and Rupali's daughter
- Shataf Figar as Mohammad Omar alias Baren Nalli, Central Kolkata gangster
- Indrajit Mazumder as Mughal Abbas
- Sudip Mukherjee as Commissioner Amit Dhar
- Biswarup Biswas as Arun Roy aka Kallu, an assassin
- Annine Sen as Pubali, Ispahani's wife
- Ayesha Bhattacharya as Sonali, Andrew's wife
- Mousumi Das as Rupali, Debu's wife
- Avrajit Chakraborty as Ispahani
- Sam Mukherjee as Andrew Brazgana
- Tuhin Ghosh Chakraborty as teenage Andrew Brazgana
- Suvosmita Mukherjee[9]
