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Le Chakka (2010)

Le Chakka poster
Original title
লে ছক্কা
Directed by
Raj Chakraborty
Genre
comedy film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 08m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man from North Kolkata gets involved with a local cricket team. The film shows the friendly rivalry between different parts of the city and the lively rock music culture there.

upbeathumorousenergeticspiritedlight-heartedsports-orientedregional flavorfast-paced

What happens

Le Chakka (English: Take a Sixer) is a 2010 Indian Bengali-language sports comedy drama film co-written and directed by Raj Chakraborty. Produced by Shyam Aggarwal under the banner of Srijan Arts, the screenplay and dialogues of the film were by Padmanabha Dasgupta and Abhimanyu Mukherjee. It stars Dev, Payel Sarkar and Ritwick Chakraborty in lead roles, while Kharaj Mukherjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dipankar De, Supriyo Dutta, Laboni Sarkar, Biswanath Basu, Parthasarathi Chakraborty, Pradip Dhar, Prasun Gain and Anindya Banerjee play pivotal roles. The soundtrack and background score was composed by Indraadip Das Gupta. Le Chakka marks the second collaboration between Dev and Raj Chakraborty after Challenge (2009). The film received positive reviews from the audiences, while critics were appraisal of the portrayal of the famous 'Rock culture' in North Kolkata; differences between North and South Kolkata; 'Khep Khela', a popular term of cricket taken places in North Kolkata. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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