Awara (film)

Awara
Directed by	Ravi Kinnagi
Screenplay by	N. K. Salil
Dialogues by	N. K. Salil
Story by	N. K. Salil
Produced by	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni Vishnu Mohta
Starring	Jeet Sayantika Banerjee Mukul Dev Ashish Vidyarthi Kharaj Mukherjee Biswajit Chakraborty Biswanath Basu Supriyo Dutta Tulika Basu
Cinematography	Mohan Verma
Edited by	MD Kalam
Music by	Songs: Jeet Gannguli Background score: S. P. Venkatesh
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Distributed by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date	13 July 2012 (2012-07-13)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Awara is a 2012 Indian Bengali-language action masala film co-written and directed by Ravi Kinnagi.^[1] Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, the screenplay and dialogues of the film were written by N. K. Salil. It stars Jeet, Sayantika Banerjee, Mukul Dev (in his debut in Bengali cinema) and Ashish Vidyarthi in lead roles, while Kharaj Mukherjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Biswanath Basu, Supriyo Dutta, Tulika Basu, Kamalika Banerjee and Arun Banerjee play another pivotal roles, with Subhasish Mukherjee in a guest appearance. It follows Surya, one of the descendants of King Nripendra Narayan, who gets involved in a cat and mouse game with a dreaded gangster.

Principal photography commenced in December 2011, marking 10th collaboration between Jeet and Kinagi. The film was predominantly shot in Kolkata, Cooch Behar, Purulia and Ladakh, with several foreign locations including Malaysia, Dubai, Switzerland and Indonesia. The songs in the film were composed by Jeet Gannguli, while S. P. Venkatesh provided the score. It had cinematography handled by Mohan Verma, editing by Rabi Ranjan Maitra and action sequences designed by Rocky Rajesh.

In the theatrical manner, Awara released on 13 July 2012, with a number of positive response from the audiences. It was an all time blockbuster at the box office and ran for over 250 days in theatres, also being the highest-grossing Bengali film of 2012. Besides, it is also placed in the list of highest grossing Bengali films. The signature dialogue of Jeet from the film, "Maar Gur Diye Rooti, Cheeni Diye Chaa, Phoon Diye Khaa..." became very popular amongst the masses.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

The film is about Surya Narayan (Jeet) who was once a software engineer but quits his job to give it to his poor friend and is unemployed in the city of Cooch Behar. Poulomi (Sayantika Banerjee) is a girl from Kolkata who studies in college and comes to Cooch Behar for her vacation to stay with her elder brother Madan Mohan (Kharaj Mukherjee) and his wife. Surya falls in love with Poulomi at first sight in Ransh Mela and starts chasing her to win her heart and enters the upper portion of their house as tenants with his elder brother, Upendra Narayan (Biswajit Chakraborty) and sister in law (Tulika Basu). In this process Surya will clash with local rowdy Shanatan Panja (Tamal Roychowdhury). Mistaking him to be one tapori, Poulomi hates him first but later on she realizes his true nature . She returns to Kolkata and lives with her older brother (Ashish Vidyarthi), a former builder and now a very powerful rowdy who is very possessive and protective of his sister. Surya follows Poulomi to Kolkata and works his way into their house with the help of Madan Mohan and finally both of them confess their love. There, Surya knows the past of Poulomi and how she is being chased by the notorious and cruel Tony Bharadwaj (Mukul Dev) assisted by his uncle (Supriyo Dutta) for marriage. Surya fights Tony, Poulomi's older brother kills Tony, and Surya marries Poulomi.

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