The official trailer for the much anticipated film ‘Projapati’ starring Dev and Mithun Chakroborty, was released yesterday. Mithun Chakroborty is back to the silver screens after playing an important role in ‘The Kashmir Files’. Fans are excited to have two of their favourite Bengali actors sharing screns after a long time.
Projapati is directed by Avijit Sen and it is to hit the theaters on the 21st of December. Avijit’s last film with Dev was ‘Tonic’ and it was a slice-of-life comedy that won the hearts of audiences. The music of ‘Projapati’ is composed by Anupam Roy, which means the film is going to be one of the most special albums of the year in the Bengali film industry.
Projapati is similar to ‘Piku’ in many terms. It tells an emotional story of the relationship between a widower father and an adult offspring, a genre that is being quite popular in Bollywood but not very much touched in the Bengali film industry. Mithun Chakroborty plays a funny, quirky, hearty and loving father who wants his son to get married as soon as possible but his son does not want to get married, which is its deviation from the story of ‘Piku’ because there the father never wanted his daughter to get married.
Projapati will have to compete with Bollywood biggies like ‘Cirkus’ and ‘Ganapath’ to gain a strong audience reaction, but the anticipation and excitement among the fans for both the actors makes one quite hopeful for the success of the film. There is a balance of comedy, drama and emotion in the film and you should go to the theatres and watch it if you like Bengali movies.