[Film 2015 Chittagong Download
Facunda Ganesh
The story is set against the backdrop of a little-known saga in 1930s British colonial India's East Bengal (now Bangladesh) where a group of schoolboys and young women, led by a schoolteacher Masterda Surya Sen (Manoj Bajpayee), dared to take on the Empire. Chittagong is the story of a diffident 14-year-old boy, Jhunku (Delzad Hiwale). Swept up into this seemingly impossible mission, the reluctant teenager battles with self-doubts to achieve an improbable triumph.
Jhunku, now a 23-year-old youth, is being chased by the Bengal police. He hides himself in a bunker with his childhood friend Aparna (Apu/Opu). While hiding, he begins to reflect on his past hopes and dreams. The story goes to a flashback to narrate the events that happened 10 years ago.
In 1930, Surya Sen and his followers are protesting the death of the revolutionary Jatin Das. Jhunku is not allowed to join them by his lawyer father who wants him to study in England. Apart from fearing his father, Jhunku is also torn between his admiration and respect for the magistrate, Wilkinson (Barry John) and his wife, who show great likings for him and his fascination for the charismatic figure of Masterda, who is followed and revered by most of his friends. Jhunku, due to his faith in Wilkinson who is personally against torturing revolutionaries, has great belief in British justice and believes that by getting an English education he might better equip himself to free his country. This causes arguments between him and his friends, especially Aparna. Wilkinson is opposed by the police inspector Major Johnson who defies his orders and arrests the protesters, and badly tortures Masterda.
In protest, some students hit the strict police officer Maj. Johnson (Alexx O'Nell) by spilling oil under his motorbike, making him fall. Enraged, Johnson makes random enquiries about the culprits but is unsuccessful. However, Wilkinson manages to confirm the truth out of Jhunku, and an enraged Johnson then shoots Sukhen (Shaheb Bhattacharya), one of the boys involved. This incident makes Jhunku an outcast amongst his friends, and he becomes determined to avenge the death of Sukhen. Soon afterwards, Johnson is made the DIG of police although Wilkinson had requested his transfer. This incident further shocks Jhunku. All his faith on his tutor Sir Wilkinson is lost, and he joins Masterda's army. Meanwhile, Pritilata Waddedar (Vega Tamotia) a school teacher by profession, is fascinated by the ideologies of Masterda and has great admiration for him. She wishes to join him in his future plans against the British Rule. She also appears to be in love with Nirmal sen (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) but he is reluctant to express his feelings.
Masterda and his comrades Nirmal Sen, Loknath Bal (Rajkummar Rao), Ambika Chakraborthy (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) and Ananta Singh (Jaideep Ahlawat) train the 50-odd students and plan to capture the city of Chittagong on 18 April 1930 by disconnecting all modes of communication. As per plan, the armoury of the police is captured by a group of revolutionaries led by Ganesh Ghosh and revolutionaries, led by Lokenath Baul takes over the Auxiliary Force armoury. Unfortunately the machine guns are not located. The revolutionaries also dislocate telephone and telegraph communications and disrupt the movement of the trains. After the successful raids, all the revolutionary groups gathered outside the police armoury where Surya Sen takes a military salute, hoisting the national flag and proclaims a provisional revolutionary government. The whole town is overjoyed at the success of Indian Republican Army and Chittagong is officially conquered by Surya Sen and his boys for one day. However, reinforcements from Calcutta soon set out to capture the rebels. Knowing of the army attack, the revolutionaries leave town before dawn and march towards the Jalalabad hill ranges, looking for a safe place. A confrontation ensues between British-led forces and the revolutionaries, the latter of whom emerge triumphant. In response, the colonial authorities call for reinforcements in the form of machine gunners, who inflict heavy casualties on the revolutionaries Harish also known as Tegra, the younger brother of Lokenath and a friend of Jhunku, dies.
Soon after revolutionaries disperse in smaller groups, to nearby villages. Ahsanullah Khan (Anurag Arora) from CID comes to Chittagong and cracks down on the revolutionaries. Jhunku is arrested and is severely beaten by Johnson and Ahsanullah during interrogation; he refuses to betray his leaders and comrades. He is sentenced to Kaala-Paani for life imprisonment. In due course, many revolutionaries and police officials are killed in the gun fights including noted revolutionary Nirmal Sen and police CID chief Ahsanullah. However, Pritilata Waddedar successfully attacks the Pahartali European Club and assassinates DIG Johnson; being gravely wounded she commits suicide by swallowing cyanide.
After a prolonged search, police search and arrests Master Da Surya Sen and sentences him to death by hanging. Thus Jhunku ends narrating the part and says that he was released in 1939 and again participated in the uprisings with Aparna. In one such incident there is a plan to attack the granaries where the colonial authorities and Indian landlords keep the grain they tax from the peasantry. The British block all the roads to godowns leading Jhunku to an idea to create underground dungeons till the granaries. Twenty villages join hands and operate. The last scene shows Jhunku being stopped by Maj. Wilkinson who says he is still sympathetic to Jhunku and wants him to go away else he will be bound to arrest him once again. Jhunku signals to Wilkinson that everyone is awake and shows him the mass crowd arising from the dungeons and heading towards the government granaries that forces Wilkinson to retreat. This is named the Tebhaga movement of 1945, which marked the end of British Raj in India. The film ends with the memorable song "Ishaan."
Anurag Kashyap posted a message on his Facebook account accusing Amitabh Bachchan of using his clout for delaying the release of Chittagong, as his son Abhishek Bachchan's upcoming film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey was also based on the Chittagong uprising.[23] Bedabrata Pain, though, said it was delayed due to the distributors suggesting to postpone it despite him preferring it to release before Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. He also said that Abhishek and his mother Jaya Bhaduri had loved the script when he went to offer the role to Abhishek.[24]
A special screening of Chittagong was done in Mumbai on 3 October 2012 at Cinemax Versova, a western Mumbai suburb. Several Bollywood biggies including Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Resul Pookutty and Anil Kapoor turned up to support the filmmaker.[30]
Surya Sen, played by Manoj Bajpai is a strong, sensitive and inspiring character that will make you a patriot all over again. When you watching him being the Masterda with such ease you wonder how much more versatile an actor can be. He creates a magic, a sense of unimaginable realism and belief for his audience and that definitely has a lot to do with his choice of films. You will find most of the notable men-crew of Gangs of Wasseypur playing major roles in the film (Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Jaideep Ahlawat etc.)
A real artist, it seems, is never concerned with commercial aspects of his work and maybe that is what obstructs his outreach to as large an audience as captured by commercial movies! I believe movies like Chittagong need to be brought to audience through rigorous marketing which I feel lacks in case of such projects. It is pity that the masterpieces are buried under shelves and majority of the sponsors stigmatized them as commercially non-viable and fear to invest in them.
Tell me about it! I spoke with the director on the opening release of Chittagong in hyd. Who would think a NASA scientist would want to make a film? We were so surprised by his humility and eagerness to know what we think about the film. Only a man so amazing can make something like Chittagong! And ofcourse the Publicity groups he hired did a shoddy business out of it. Chittagong is all word of mouth now. I hope you tell people about it too!
My bad! I downloaded Chittagong as well as Gangs of Wasseypur and realized after commenting, I was watching the latter! Both Manoj Bajpai films. It was a treat to watch. Would return after watching Chittagong tomorrow!
A gem of a movie, Bedabrata Pain has shown India what independent cinema can achieve. Based on a true event, the film is able to capture all the emotion, courage and motivation involved with the freedom struggle of India. I hope there are more such brilliant efforts from indie film-makers.
Based on the real life incidents happened before Independence..
Chittagong is a story of rebel youth who raised their vocie againts the British during 1930's undoubtedly the first Independence revolution happened under the leadership of Suryasen
Untold story of unsung hero's
Manoj bajpayee , Nawazuddin , Rajkumar Rao, Vijay Verma,Jaideep - were all acted in one movie and
Anurag Kashyap produced this Indie film . WOW
Anyways it's a well intentioned and true to its craft movie. There are many unsung heroes who truly fought for the freedom before Independence from many years.This is just one of those films about unsung heroes from small village called chittagong.
Near the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh lies one of the largest ship breaking yards in the world. The Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard stretches for 20 km along the coast on the Bay of Bengal with 100 different wreck yards lined up one after another. Over 200,000 Bangladeshis are employed to break down up to 120 ships a year. Each vessel takes about 2 months to dismantle.
The industry began with a cyclone in 1960 which left a Greek cargo ship stranded on the shores of Chittagong. Unable to be refloated, Chittagong Steel House bought the ship and with the help of locals had it dismantled and scrapped.
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