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Chander Pahar (film)

This article is about the 2013 Bengali film. For the 1990 film of the same name, see Mountains of the Moon (film).

Chander Pahar
An young man of Indian origin is looking back with a rifle on his shoulder, having a backdrop of jungle, animals, mountain ranges and the logo art of the film
Theatrical poster
Directed byKamaleshwar Mukherjee
Written byBibhutibushan Bandyopadhyay
Based onChander Pahar
by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Produced byMahendra Soni
Shrikant Mohta
StarringDev
Gérard Rudolf
Martin Cito Otto
CinematographySoumik Haldar
Edited byRaviranjan Maitra
Music byIndraadip Das Gupta & Debojyoti Mishra[1]
Production
company
Distributed byShree Venkatesh Films
Release dates
  • 20 December 2013 (2013-12-20) (West Bengal)
  • 27 December 2013 (2013-12-27) (India)
  • 9 January 2014 (2014-01-09) (Worldwide)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesBengali
English
Afrikaans
Budget₹15 crore[2]
Box office₹22.50 crore[3][4][5][6]

Chander Pahar (transl. Mountain of the Moon) (released as Mountains of the Moon in the United States)[7] is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language action-adventure film based on Chander Pahar by Bengali novelist Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and produced by Mahendra Soni and Shrikant Mohta under the banner of their production house Shree Venkatesh Films. It features Bengali actor Dev in the lead role as Shankar. This is the first collaboration between Dev and Mukherjee, the latter having made only two films before: Uro Chithi and Meghe Dhaka Tara.It was dream project of Late Filmmaker Tarun Majumdar.[8]

Principal photography commenced on 20 April 2013.[9] The film released on 20 December 2013. The trailer was released on Children's Day of 2013 at Nicco Park at 5 pm. This is the first Indian film to be extensively shot in South Africa. Chander Pahar is one of the most successful films in Bengali cinema. Critics consider it Dev's most memorable and recognizable work.[10] It is the first film of the Chander Pahar franchise and was followed by Amazon Obhijaan in 2017. The film went down as the second highest grossing Bengali film of all time, surpassed by the sequel, Amazon Obhijaan.

  1. ^ "Debajyoti Mishra's works kept". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Costliest Tolly film fights the odds- Mountain to climb for chander pahar at box-office". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  3. ^ Kanji, Subhasmita (6 January 2025). "Khadaan Box Office: নিজেই নিজের রেকর্ড ভাঙলেন দেব! প্রজাপতিকে টপকে গেল খাদান, ১৭ দিনে ঘরে কত তুলল ছবি?". Hindustan Times (in Bengali). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  4. ^ "বক্স অফিসের নতুন চুড়োয় চাঁদের পাহাড়". Anandabazar Patrika. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Top 5 Bengali films with good numbers at box office". The Statesman (India). 15 December 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Big production houses garner 70% of revenue in Bengali film industry: survey". Business Line. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Mountains Of The Moon". IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2013. [unreliable source?]
  8. ^ Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dev and crew was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "'Chander Pahar' promises adventure shots not seen before". Zee News. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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