Challenge 2

Challenge 2
File:Challenge 2 poster.jpg Challenge 2 film poster
Directed by	Raja Chanda
Written by	NK Salil Rathi Biswas Gopimohan
Produced by	Srikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni of Shree Venkatesh Films
Starring	Dev Pooja Bose Tapas Paul Ashish Vidyarthi Kharaj Mukherjee
Cinematography	Sailesh Awasthi
Edited by	Rabi Ranjan Maitra, Jahidul Islam Shuvo
Music by	Jeet Ganguly Savvy Gupta
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date	19 October 2012 (2012-10-19)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	₹06 crore (US$720,000)
Box office	₹306 crore (US$37 million) Running

Challenge 2 is a 2012 Bengali action film directed by Raja Chanda starring Dev and Pooja Bose in lead roles. The film is not a sequel to the 2009 Bengali film Challenge; it contains a very different storyline. Major parts of the movie were shot in Malaysia, Dubai and Mumbai besides Kolkata. This is the most expensive movie made so far in Tollywood with a budget of ₹140 million. Challenge 2 is a remake of 2011 Telugu film Dookudu, directed by Srinu Vaitla and starring Mahesh Babu and Samantha.

Plot

IPS Officer Abhiraj Roy a.k.a Abhi (Dev) is a daring super-cop in Mumbai. He is on a mission to apprehend a mafia don, Guru Nayak (Ashish Vidyarthi), who is involved in illegal drug trade, extortion, and arms trafficking. His father, Debraj Roy (Tapas Paul), who was a politician driven by idealistic values and a sense of social service, met with a fatal accident. It is later revealed that Debraj actually survived the accident but ended up in a state of coma. However, this truth is hidden by their family from the people. Abhi maintains a low profile to catch Guru Nayak. In an undercover operation in Malaysia, Abhi gets hold of Guru Nayak's brother Bunty (Surajit Sen). Later, it is revealed that one corrupt businessman, Apurba Ghosh (Dipankar Dey), was the mastermind behind Debraj's accident.

Abhi falls in love with a girl Pooja Bakshi (Pooja Bose), a fashion designer, who he meets in Malaysia. She is the daughter of Abhi's boss Ajit Bakshi (Rajatava Dutta), a cop who reports to the police commissioner (Bharat Kaul) in Mumbai city. When Debraj comes out of the coma, doctors advise his family that he is at risk if he encounters or hears anything upsetting, disturbing, or shocking. Abhi hides the events surrounding Debraj's accident. He even hides his profession, as it was Debraj's dream to see his son as a politician revered by people. Abhi shifts his family to Debraj's previously abandoned mansion, which is now being used for filmmaking.

Abhi creates a dummy political set-up at this mansion. In the guise of a reality television program, Abhi tricks an aspiring but unsuccessful film actor Swarnakamal (Kharaj Mukherjee), as well as another unsuccessful actor Premjit (Subhasish Mukherjee). Abhi keeps this drama under wraps from his father, by making him believe that Abhi is now an M.L.A. revered by people fulfilling Debraj's wishes. He also gets engaged with his love Pooja, to make Debraj happy. The rest of the plot reveals the politician-criminal nexus behind Debraj's accident and Abhi's retaliation over the political corruptions of the villains.

Cast

• Dev as IPS Officer Abhiraj Roy a.k.a. Abhi
• Pooja Bose as Pooja Bakshi
• Tapas Paul as Debraj Roy
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Guru Nayak
• Kharaj Mukherjee as Swarnakamal
• Rajatava Dutta as Mudhushudhon Bakshi
• Surajit Sen as Bunty
• Dipankar Dey as Apurba Ghosh
• Laboni Sarkar as Pooja's mother
• Bharat Kaul as Police Commissioner
• Raj Chakraborty as film director (cameo)
• Subhasish Mukherjee as Premjit
• Tulika Basu
• Biswanath Basu
• Jahidul Islam Shuvo

Release

The film released on 19 October 2012 (Durga panchami) just before the Durga Pujo weekend in 270 theatres across India including West Bengal, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh and is being screened in both single screen and multiplexes. According to Producer Mr. Mahendra Soni – this is the first time a non-double-version Bengali flick has been released in 270 theatres across the country and continues its successful run in the non-niche segment of core viewers outside Bengal. The production house Shree Venkatesh Films is also planning to screen Challenge 2 abroad for the Indian diaspora by the end of this year.

Soundtrack

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The soundtrack of the film was scored by Jeet Ganguly and Savvy Gupta.

Track	Song	Singer(s)	Duration (min:sec)	Music	Lyricist
1	"Challenge Nibi Na Sala"	Suraj Jagan	4:20	Jeet Ganguly	Prasenjit Mukherjee
2	"Police Chorer Preme Poreche"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Akriti Kakkar	4:11	Jeet Ganguly	Raja Chanda
3	"Elo Je Maa Durga Maa"	Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Shreya Ghoshal	5:07	Jeet Ganguly	Priyo Chattopadhyay
4	"Pyaar Ka Bukhar"	Suraj Jagan	3:22	Savvy Gupta	Savvy Gupta

Box office

Challenge 2 was an immediate blasting hit in theatres and broke several Tollywood records. In its first four days of release, its box office collections reached 80% of the total budget of the film, i.e., ₹115 million (US$1.4 million). The record first-week box office collection of Challenge 2 was ₹198 million (US$2.4 million), breaking the previous first-week record collection of Paglu (Paglu collected ₹145 million (US$1.7 million) in its first week) by a huge gap. This movie is highest opener in history of Tollywood having over 95 per cent occupancy rate in theatres of West Bengal & Kolkata and 60 per cent occupancy rate in other states. It completed its 50-day run at theatres on 7 December with record of becoming the second Bengali film to take more than ₹1 billion (US$12 million) at the box office; it collected 1.25 billion.