Dujone
Dujone is a 2009 Indian Bengali-language romantic action film directed by Rajiv Kumar Biswas in his directorial debut. Produced by Ashok Dhanuka under the banner of Eskay Movies, the film stars Dev and Srabanti Chatterjee in lead roles, with Arun Bannerjee, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Kharaj Mukherjee, Nandini Chatterjee, Mousumi Saha, Seema Biswas and Arijit Dutta in supporting roles.
The film plots a love story between Akash and Meghna, belonged to different backgrounds, which is opposed by their families, leading to Akash's father to hire a contract killer to eliminate Meghna. Announced in December 2008, the film marks Biswas's first collaboration with Dev, and pairs Dev and Srabanti for the first time. Predominantly shot in Kolkata, Siliguri and Sikkim, with additional filming in Switzerland and Houston, over a span of five months. Jeet Gannguli composed its soundtrack, while S. P. Venkatesh provided its score, with lyrics penned by Gautam Sushmit and Priyo Chattopadhyay.
Dujone was theatrically released worldwide on 17 September 2009, opening to highly positive reviews. Emerged as a hit, grossing over against a budget of the film is noted to be the first Bengali film with Digital Intermediate technology. It was remade into Hindi as Ishaqzaade.
Plot
Akash is the son of a multimillionaire in Kolkata. He is very much addicted to sports rather than education in college. On the other hand, Meghna, the first girl of his class, shows hatred towards Akash due to his belief regarding this. She is the daughter of a fisherman. Over a period of time, her hatred turns into love. Finally, he falls in love with her too, but their parents do not agree to their marriage. Their parents plan to avoid their marriage by giving the couple a clause that they should not meet each other for one year. If their love remains even after one year then their parents will agree to their marriage.Akash's father puts him under house arrest in Siliguri. while Meghna's father takes her to his hometown and arranges her marriage with another man. However, both Akash and Meghna manage to escape. They reach a garden where they spend a lot of days working for money. But Akash's father sends goons to bring back his son. In the end, both of them get married in front of the Legislative Assembly where; whole college comes to support them.
Cast
- Dev as Akash Banerjee
- Srabanti Chatterjee as Meghna
- Arun Bannerjee as Mr. Banerjee, Akash's father
- Debesh Roy Chowdhury as Shankar, Meghna's father
- Kharaj Mukherjee
- Nandini Chatterjee as Mrs. Sen
- Mousumi Saha as Meghna's mother
- Seema Biswas as Meghna's aunt
- Dwijen Banerjee as Manohar,
- Ramaprasad Banik as the principal of Pailan College
- Debjani Mukherjee
- Arijit Dutta as Pandit
- Rintu Dey as Sunil, Akash's friend
- Pradip Dhar as the announcer in the sports meet
- Atanu Mukherjee as Das, Mr. Banerjee's manager