Shikari Dvd

Shikari (transl. Hunter) is a 2016 Bangladesh-India joint venture Action thriller film directed by Joydip Mukherjee. Produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies banners, and it stars Bangladeshi superstar Shakib Khan, Srabanti Chatterjee, Rahul Dev and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty in pivotal roles and centers around Khan, a disguised professional assassin with mysterious past, tasked with assassinating a top government official. The film also features Amit Hasan, Kharaj Mukherjee, and Shupriyo Dutta in supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score of the film was composed by Indradeep Dasgupta.

A collaborative Jaaz-Eskay project involving Khan was first reported during mid 2014. However, the project was later shelved due to unavailability of actor. Due to numerous media reports, the film was originally planned to be a multi-starrer film. Eskay Movies & Jaaz Multimedia intended to begin production of the film again after revisions in the script of the film. The production was officially announced by Eskay Movies & Jaaz Multimedia in January 2016, and Zakir Hossain Simanto and Joydip Mukherjee was hired as directors. The film is produced by Abdul Aziz and Ashok Dhanuka, under the production of Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies. A few percent of the film and songs were shot in London, UK. The film was released in Bangladesh on 7 July 2016. It became 2nd highest-grossing Bangladeshi film of 2016.[clarification needed]Shakib Khan won his eight Meril Prothom Alo Awards for this film.

It is an official remake of the 2009 Tamil movie Aadhavan which was itself inspired from the 1990 Malayalam movie His Highness Abdullah.

Plot

Sultan (Shakib Khan) is a professional assassin who had run away from home in his childhood after being convicted of attempting to murder his father. Rahul Dev, an influential child trafficker hires Sultan to kill prominent Judge Rudro Chowdhury (Sabyasachi Chatterjee), since he is handling the inquiry and verdict on Rahul Dev’s child trafficking case in Kolkata. Sultan arrives in Kolkata and attempts to murder Judge Chowdhury by sniping, but misfires due to large crowd and media around the Judge. The West Bengal police force chases after him, but ultimately fails to catch him. After Rahul Dev insults him for his inability, Sultan is angry with himself, and vows to kill Judge Chowdhury within ten days.

Sultan enters Judge Chowdhury’s household disguising as a servant, and slowly begins to win over the members of the family.

Cast

Shakib Khan as Sultan/Raghob
Srabanti Chatterjee as Chhutki/Riya
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Rudro Chowdhury
Rahul Dev as Dev Roy
Amit Hasan as IPS Rudro
Supriyo Dutta as Abdulla/Abbu
Kharaj Mukherjee as Teenkori
Lily Chakrabarty as Raghab alias Sultan’s grandmother
Shiba Shanu as Security guard Khan
Rebeka Rouf as Chowdhury’s wife