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Nabab (2017)

Nabab poster
Directed by
Joydip Mukherjee
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
Bangladesh
Runtime
2h 20m
Rating
3.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An intelligence agent is sent on a secret mission to West Bengal. He falls in love with a crime news reporter while trying to complete his operation.

fast-pacedaction-packedromanticdramatictensesuspensefulpatriotic

What happens

Nabab is a 2017 Indo-Bangladeshi action thriller film directed by Joydip Mukherjee and produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the banner of Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies. A remake of the Aamir Khan starrer 1995 film Baazi, the film features Shakib Khan in the title role, an intelligence agent tasked with a secret operation in West Bengal, and Subhashree Ganguly as a crime news reporter and Nabab's love interest. It also features Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Amit Hasan, Aparajita Adhya, Kharaj Mukherjee and Arindam Saha in supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score of the film was composed by Savvy Gupta and Akassh. The film was released on 26 June 2017 on the occasion of Eid in Bangladesh and released in India on 28 July 2017. The film marks the second collaboration of Shakib Khan with Joydip Mukherjee after success of Shikari (2016). The film had a production budget of ৳5 crore (US$410,000) and earned ₹9.10 crore (equivalent to ₹13 crore or US$1.3 million in 2023) within the first five days of its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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