Zulfiqar Dvd

Zulfiqar is a 2016 Indian crime drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji. The film is based on adaptation of two of William Shakespeare’s tragedies: Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. The shooting of the film started in January 2016. The film was released on 7 October 2016 during Durga Puja to poor reviews but was a box office success. The songs from the film topped the charts.

Plot

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Zulfiqar Ahmed (Prosenjit Chatterjee) is a Godfather figure and the most prominent member of Syndicate – a powerful organization which oversees most of the happenings in the heart of the city. Basheer Khan (Kaushik Sen), a member of Syndicate is a nationalist, a gangster and the best friend of Zulfiqar, who does not support terrorism. Tony Braganza(Parambrata Chatterjee) is the brain of The Syndicate who oversees the financial things of the organization, and Markaz Ali (Dev) is the brawn. If need be, Tony can shoot a bullet, but he is a man of the papers. Tony and Markaz have grown up together and they are inseparable. Though Zulfiqar is married to Karishma Ahmed (Paoli Dam), he continues an extramarital affair with Rani Talapatra (Nusrat Jahan), a money-lender, and the owner of the “Blue Nile Bar”, who in turns loves Markaz and vice versa. Kashinath Kundu (Jisshu Sengupta) is the wily and scheming guy of The Syndicate, who has an ambition for power. The Syndicate also have some corrupt government officials as members, like Customs officer Kaushik Sinha (Sujan Mukhopadhyay), Port Trust officer Tribhuban Gupta (Srijato), and a policeman, Laltu Das (Rahul Banerjee). Zulfiqar is more equal than the others who carries his aura lightly, but even in this group of equals, his opinion on matters of business and policy weigh a bit more. Not everyone likes this including Kashinath Kundu who fuels Basheer’s growing individuality and makes him believe that Zulfiqar was the one who gave shelter to Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who came to West Bengal some days earlier by showing him some fake photographs and documents.

Basheer, fully convinced about Zulfiqar’s involvement in helping the terrorists to hide in West Bengal, reluctantly decides to kill him with the other conspirators on the auspicious occasion of Eid al-Fitr. Karishma has nightmares of some upcoming danger that is yet to take place with Zulfiqar and repeatedly prevents him from going out on Eid al-Fitr. Zulfiqar, to calm down his wife, decides not to get out. But Danish, Syndicate’s member, escorts him to go out. Tony and Markaz had no idea about the conspiracy and they were prevented from attending the meeting by Tribhuban, who held both of them for some other cause. During the Syndicate meeting, Mithilesh Sikdar (Prasun Gayen) urges the members to rid his brother of the exile, given to him due to the latter’s hand in killing of innocent people. Though majority of the members gave their nod to the proposal, Zulfiqar denies the proposal and also told that there is no one to oppose him. At this point, Sharafat Qasim (Aryann Roy) shoots Zulfiqar from behind, with others, including Kashinath, Sinha, Danish, Shishir Tili (Barun Chakraborty) and Basheer shooting a bullet each to end Zulfiqar’s rule once and for all, whereas Laltu Das and Pavel Lateef (Aritra Dutta) escape due to the fact that Basheer didn’t want to kill any innocent.

After Zulfiqar’s death, Tony and Markaz, along with Zulfiqar’s nephew Akhtar Ahmed (Ankush Hazra), Laltu Das, Rani, Pavel and Tony’s favourite aide Chenno Bablu (Kanchan Mullick) go into hiding. Basheer calls them, asking to return on the occasion of Zulfiqar’s funeral. At the funeral, Basheer delivers an oration defending his actions and for the moment the crowd, which have gathered outside the assassination spot to know the reasons for Zulfiqar’s murder, is on the conspirators’ side. However, Tony and Markaz, with a subtle and eloquent speech over Zulfiqar’s corpse deftly turns public opinion against the assassins by manipulating the emotions of the common people. Tony, even as he states his intentions against it, rouses the mob to avenge Zulfiqar’s murder. The conspirators go into hiding, but one by one Markaz, Tony and Laltu finds and kills Tribhuban, Shishir Tili, and Sinha’s twin brother (whom they mistake for Sinha). Basheer reveals that his beloved wife Pariza (June Maliah) had committed suicide under the stress of his absence after which the conspirators prepare for a gang war against the loyalists. That night, Zulfiqar’s ghost appears to Basheer and tell him, he too will know everything when the right time comes and then once more the ghost will appear. Skirmishes and shootouts occur between the loyalists and the conspirators, in which Pavel, Mithilesh and Qasim are killed. Danish is shot during another shootout, and before his last breath he whispers something to Basheer. Kashinath inadvertently reveals his conspiracy against Zulfiqar to Basheer, the faking of the photographs and how he brainwashed Basheer into killing his best friend, after which Basheer informs him what Danish told him in his last moments- Kashinath is the illegitimate brother of Pariza. Now both of them indulges in a hand-to-hand combat, which ends when they kill each other. With his dying breath, Basheer again sees the ghost of Zulfiqar, as promised before.

The remaining part of the story follows the growing ambition of Akhtar, along with Markaz’s relationship with Rani Talapatra, and Tony’s marriage to Albeena (Kyra Dutt), Akhtar’s sister. With the Syndicate no more existing, Akhtar systematically removes every obstacle in his path, manipulating Markaz and Rani into committing suicide, and killing Tony, Chheno Bablu, and Laltu, thus ultimately becoming the new, all-powerful gangster of the area.

Cast

Actor Role Based on
Prosenjit Chatterjee Zulfiqar Ahmed Julius Caesar
Kaushik Sen Basheer Khan Marcus Brutus
Parambrata Chatterjee Tony Braganza Mark Antony
Dev Markaz Ali
Jisshu Sengupta Kashinath Kundu Cassius
Ankush Hazra Akhtar Ahmed Octavius
Rahul Banerjee Laltu Das Lepidus
Paoli Dam Karishma Ahmed Calpurnia
Nusrat Jahan Rani Talapatra Cleopatra
Kyra Dutt Albeena Ahmed Octavia
Kanchan Mullick Chheno Bablu Enobarbus
June Malia Pariza Khan Porcia
Sujan Mukhopadhyay Kaushik Sinha/unnamed twin brother Cinna the conspirator/Cinna the poet
Srijato Tribhuban Gupta Trebonius
Bharat Kaul Parvez Maqsood Pompey the Great
Aryann Roy Sharafat Qasim Casca
Prasun Gain Mithilesh Sikder Metellus Cimber
Subhra Sourav Das Saqlain Maqsood Sextus Pompey
Barun Chakraborty Shishir Tili Cicero
Kalyan Ray Peer Baba Soothsayer
Debapriyo Mukherjee Danish Bashar Decius Brutus
Aritra Dutta Pavel Lateef Popilius Lena
Biplab Dasgupta MLA N/A
Srijit Mukherjee Person in crowd N/A
Biswajit Chakraborty Police Officer N/A