Shatru

Shatru (1986)

Inspector Ashok Sharma is assigned to take over as Inspector In-Charge of a remote police station, which he does. Upon his arrival there, he comes to the rescue of a blind man and a widow, and has a fist fight with Nishikant Shah and his men. The next day, Shah finds out that the person his men fought with is no other than the new Inspector In-charge, and he goes to pay homage, but Ashok refuses. Then Shah and the local MLA spin a web of lies and deceit, in which Ashok is accused of killing a man in custody, and as a result he may face criminal charges and also lose his job.

Date of release
1986-12-07
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Anjan Choudhury

Casting

Interesting facts

Shatru is a 1984 Bengali-language action crime film written and directed by Anjan Choudhury in his directorial debut. Produced by Ravindra Aggarwal and Ramkrishna Aggarwal under the banner of Shanti Films Corporation, the film is based on Choudhury's own serialised story Hobo Itihaash, published for his edited weekly magazine Chumki. It stars Ranjit Mallick, Manoj Mitra, Shakuntala Barua and Subhodip Roy Chowdhury in lead roles, while Anup Kumar, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Bikash Roy, Biplab Chatterjee and Nirmal Ghosh play another pivotal roles, with Dilip Roy, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Mahua Roy Chowdhury and Jayshree T in special appearances.

Production

When Anjan Choudhury was working as a film critic and journalist for his own weekly magazine Chumki (titled after his elder daughter's name), he serially published his first two stories in 1979. One of these was Hobo Itihaash, inspired by the political violence in the late 70s, which caught Subhendu Chatterjee's attention.

However, both Chatterjee and Choudhury were struggling to find an actor for the lead "angry young man" role, which was turned down by Soumitra Chatterjee and Samit Bhanja, as both of them found themselves to be improper. Despite having proper physique, Soumitra Chatterjee, whom the role was first offered, disagreed to sign the film because of his commitments with other projects as the film needed a lot of workshops especially for the action seque…

Mithun Chakraborty was offered an important character by Kumar's advice, and Prosenjit Chatterjee was signed to play a negative character, both of whom were then acting and working as an assistant director under Kumar's supervision respectively in his directorial Kalankini Kankabati (1981), while Chakraborty later came out of it and was replaced by Santu Mukherjee.

The shooting of the film was to begin in September 1980, after the completion of Uttam Kumar and Ranjit Mallick's commitments with other films. On 23 July 1980, Kumar had his third time heart attack during the shooting of Ogo Bodhu Shundori (1981), and he died on 24 July at 9:30 pm. After these circumstances, Chatterjee came out of the project and ultimately Hobo Itihaash got shelved.

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