Shikari (2016 film)

Shikari
Theatrical Poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Pele Bhattacharya
  • Abdullah Zahir Babu
Screenplay by
  • Pele Bhattacharya
  • Abdullah Zahir Babu
Story by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTuban
Edited bySomnath Dey
Music byIndraadip Dasgupta
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 7 July 2016 (2016-07-07) (Bangladesh)[1]
  • 12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) (Worldwide)
Running time
160 minutes
Countries
LanguageBengali
Box office৳5.55 crore (equivalent to ৳8.6 crore or US$730,000 in 2023)[2]

Shikari (transl. Hunter)[3][4] is a 2016 Indian-Bangladeshi joint venture action thriller film directed by Joydip Mukherjee and Zakir Hossain Simanto. Produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies banners, it stars Shakib Khan, Srabanti Chatterjee, Rahul Dev and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty in pivotal roles and centers around Khan, a disguised professional assassin with a mysterious past, tasked with assassinating a top government official. The film also features Amit Hasan, Kharaj Mukherjee, and Shupriyo Dutta in supporting roles.[5] The soundtrack album and background score of the film have been composed by Indraadip Dasgupta.[6]

A collaborative Jaaz-Eskay project involving Khan was first reported during mid 2014. However, the project was later shelved due to unavailability of the actor. The film was originally planned to be a multi-starrer film in numerous media reports. Eskay Movies and Jaaz Multimedia intended to begin production of the film again after revisions in the script. The production was officially announced by Eskay and Jaaz in January 2016, and Zakir Hossain Simanto and Joydip Mukherjee were hired as directors.Some of the film and songs were shot in London.

The film was released in Bangladesh on 7 July 2016 and became the 2nd highest-grossing Bangladeshi film of 2016.[7][8][9] For the film Khan won his eighth Meril-Prothom Alo Awards for Best Actor and was nominated in critics choice Best Actor category.[10]

It is an official remake of the 2009 Tamil film Aadhavan which was itself inspired from the 1990 Malayalam film His Highness Abdullah.[11][12]

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  2. ^ বাংলাদেশে সেরা ব্যবসা সফল যে ১০ চলচ্চিত্র. www.sunnews24x7.com (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Shakib looks like Salman: Adnan". Dhaka Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Check out Shakib's menacing "Shikari" look". The Daily Star. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Shakib Khan to produce 'Piya Re'". The Daily Star. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Shikari: Shakib's first Indo-Bangla venture". Dhaka Tribune. 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Official poster of 'Shikari' is out". cinekolkata.com.
  8. ^ "2016's Most Successful Bengali Films". The Daily Star.
  9. ^ "A year on the silver screen". The Daily Star.
  10. ^ "Shakib Khan Dedicate his eight award to his son". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 21 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Bangladeshi film Shikari to be screened in Malaysia | Daily Sun". daily-sun. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Shakib Khan's 'Shikari' awarded Best Film". The Asian Age. Bangladesh.