Tekka

Tekka (2024)

টেক্কা

Tekka is the story of Iqlakh, a janitor who has lost his job and is out to get it back by holding a schoolgirl hostage in a building. ACP Maya comes in, a woman who is trying to conceive. Add to the mix a young journalist pair, Brishti and Tintin, and we have a sentimental thriller in an office building spanning 48 hours, full of melodrama.

Date of release
2024-10-08
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Srijit Mukherji

Casting

Interesting facts

Tekka ( transl. Ace) is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language vigilante action thriller film co-written and directed by Srijit Mukherji. Produced by Gurupada Adhikari and Dev under the banner of Dev Entertainment Ventures, the film is based on a story of the same name by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, which itself is loosely inspired from the West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam (2022). It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Dev, Swastika Mukherjee, Rukmini Maitra, Paran Bandyopadhyay, Sujan Mukherjee, Aryann Bhowmik, Sreeja Dutta and Aameya Bose in her debut, with Kaushik Sen, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Sudeshna Roy and Srijit Mukherji himself in special appearances.

Production

In June 2023, it was reported that Dev would reunite with Srijit Mukherji for the biopic of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah in his second collaboration seven years after Zulfiqar (2016). Later it was clarified by Dev to be a rumour through the #AskDev session on Twitter. According to him, he had no discussions with Mukherji about the biopic. He also confirmed that he had no plans of working with the director that time.

When asked about the subject matter of their film, Srijit Mukherji said that several scripts have been narrated to Dev, but nothing had been finalized. Initially it was rumoured to be a gangster drama on the life of Markus, the character portrayed by Dev in Zulfiqar. Later in December 2023, the film was revealed to be a hostage thriller.

Tekka was originally based on a story of the same name written by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, the teacher of screenwriting at York University of Canada. Although he initially considered the story for a Hindi film, he later sold the rights for a Bengali film at Mukherji's request and unable to resist the temptation of working with Dev as a screenwriter.

Tekka's pre-production began in December 2023, when Mukherji chose to work with cinematographer Soumik Halder, with whom he had frequently worked on his earlier films. Due to scheduling conflicts, Halder left the production and was replaced by Modhura Palit, who had appeared in Dev Entertainment Ventures' previous projects Kishmish (2022) and Kachher Manush (2022).

The film's production house confirmed the collaboration between Mukherji and Dev by releasing the official poster of the film along with the pivotal names in the cast on their social media handles on 25 December 2023. Swastika Mukherjee was roped in to play the character of a police officer, but later she was selected to play the role of the kidnapped child's mother. Filming began in 2024.

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