Yuddho
Official poster
Directed byRabi Kinagi
Screenplay byN.K. Salil[1]
Produced byShree Venkatesh Films
Starring
Edited byRabiranjan Moitra
Music byJeet Gannguli
Release date
29 July 2005[2]
Running time
166 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Budget₹ 1.5 crore[3]
Box office₹ 3.5 crore[4]

Yuddho (or Juddho; lit. 'War') is a 2005 Indian action thriller film written and directed by Rabi Kinagi and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films.[5] The screenplay of the film was written by N.K. Salil.[1] It is an unofficial remake of the 2000 Hindi film Kurukshetra. The story revolves around a police officer who is charged with false accusation of murdering his wife and imprisoned as he has been investigating a rape case that involves the younger brother of a powerful MLA. The officer then manages to evade the prison and get his revenge. It stars Mithun Chakraborty and Jeet for the first time together, along with Debashree Roy, Koel Mallick, Kaushik Banerjee, Bharat Kaul, and Rajatava Dutta.[6]

The film became the highest-grossing Bengali film of the year earning more than ₹ 3 crore at the box office.[4]

Plot

Police officer Agnishwar Ray keeps getting transferred due to his aggressive nature towards criminals. He ends up at Uttarpara police station where young boy Surya Sinha is the local strongman. Ranjit Saha, the younger brother of the local MLA named Joy Chand Saha, abducts a girl when the girl was returning from a college function, and violently rapes her in his car, leaving her to die. Agnishwar arrests Ranjit. To take revenge, the MLA gets Agnishwar put in prison and his wife Sandhya murdered. There starts Agnishwar's revenge where he slowly kills all the persons responsible for putting him behind bars and killing his wife, ending with the death of the MLA and himself at the hands of Surya, who has by now become a police officer.

Cast

Soundtrack

Yuddho
Soundtrack album by
Jeet Gannguli
Released2004
Recorded2003
StudioShree Venkatesh Films
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LanguageBengali
LabelSVF
Jeet Gannguli chronology
Bandhan
(2004)		 Yuddho
(2004)		 Shubhodrishti
(2005)
Singles from Yuddho
  1. "Kichu Aasha Khonje Bhasha"
    Released: 29 November 2017
  2. "Tomar O Chokhete"
    Released: 28 December 2018
  3. "Baisakhete Pratham Dekha"
    Released: 28 December 2018

All lyrics are written by Gautam Susmit, Priyo Chattopadhyay; all music is composed by Jeet Gannguli

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Kichu Aasha Khonje Bhasha"Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal4:54
2."Baisakhete Pratham Dekha"Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal4:19
3."Tomar O Chokhete"Babul Supriyo, Sadhna Sargam4:30
4."Shure Shure"Babul Supriyo, Jeet Gannguli, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Sadhna Sargam4:46
5."Sadher Lau"Miss. Jojo, Jeet Gannguli5:01

Production

Initially, the role of Mrs. Sandhya Roy was offered to Rachna Banerjee and then to Rituparna Sengupta. After both of them refused to play the role, it was offered to Debashree Roy.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "গোখরো তো বাস্তুসাপ, অনেকের বাড়িতেই থাকে, মানুষ পুজো করে: এন কে সলিল". The Wall. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "JUDDHA". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 18 July 2005. Archived from the original on 18 February 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  3. ↑ "Big clash means big cash". The Telegraph. Calcutta. 29 August 2005. Archived from the original on 11 November 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  4. 1 2 "Flashback 2005". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Joddha (tentatively titled)". The Telegraph. Calcutta. 8 May 2005. Archived from the original on 19 October 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
  6. ↑ Biswas, Pradip (19 August 2005). "Bengali films lucrative?". screenindia.com. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  7. ↑ "এ কোন রচনা!". reader.magzter.com. Anandalok. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
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