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Professor Shanku O El Dorado

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 30m
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5.3/10
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Dhritiman Chatterjee in Professor Shanku O El Dorado (2019)
This is adventure story of the genius scientist and inventor Professor Shonku to the heart of the Amazon forests in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. One day a typical Bengali gentleman Nakur Chandra Biswas alias Nakurbabu comes to meet him in Shonku's house in Giridih. He lives in Makardaha. Shonku realises that Nakurbabu has supernatural power having ability to read others mind and to see future. Nakurbabu warns him about the upcoming incidents of Sau Paulo. Seeing his extrasensory power, amazed Shonku goes to Brazil with Nakurbabu to join a science conference and the mystery starts which ends in a fabled city in the Brazilian Amazon.
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A world of myths, superpowers, and science - and Prof Shanku! Catch India's first science-fiction, with some "Ray" magic.A world of myths, superpowers, and science - and Prof Shanku! Catch India's first science-fiction, with some "Ray" magic.A world of myths, superpowers, and science - and Prof Shanku! Catch India's first science-fiction, with some "Ray" magic.

  • Director
    • Sandip Ray
  • Writers
    • Rohini Ghosh
    • Sandip Ray
    • Satyajit Ray
  • Stars
    • Raneth Tomas Barbosa
    • Ashoke Barman
    • Sadhan Bhattacharya
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    605
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sandip Ray
    • Writers
      • Rohini Ghosh
      • Sandip Ray
      • Satyajit Ray
    • Stars
      • Raneth Tomas Barbosa
      • Ashoke Barman
      • Sadhan Bhattacharya
    • 20User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Raneth Tomas Barbosa
    Ashoke Barman
    Sadhan Bhattacharya
    Augusto Cesar
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    Dhritiman Chatterjee
    Dhritiman Chatterjee
    • Prof. Trilokeshwar Shonku
    Manab Choudhury
    Elias Cintra
    Fernando Coelho
    • Solomon Bloomgarten
    Thayonne Ghrielly Moto Comes
    Ricardo Dantas
    • Jeremy Saunders
    Manab Chandra Das
    Sadhan Das
    Leonardo Milon De Oliveira
    • Joe Hopgood
    Kakoli Dhibar
    Sourav Dhibar
    Ruvia Dias
    Subhrajit Dutta
    Subhrajit Dutta
    • Samaresh
    Roney Facchini
    • Wilhelm Kroll
    • Director
      • Sandip Ray
    • Writers
      • Rohini Ghosh
      • Sandip Ray
      • Satyajit Ray
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    5priyadarshi-c

    Boring Screenplay

    While the storyline is quite good, the presentation lacks the zing required for a modern Cinema experience largely. Visuals of the Brazil landscape are the main attraction, but has been underplayed.

    Anaconda scene, ElDorado scenes could have been longer and more spectacular.

    Dialogues delivery is much too slow, deliberate and uninteresting across the board.

    Unnecessary scenes are too lengthy. Hotel scenes should have been a minimum, while adventure in Amazon Forest, ElDorado should have been emphasized.

    Does the director really have to spend so much time on characters introducing themselves to each other, painfully slowly. Who does that in real life ?!
    6gainbaban

    Average

    First 45 min is boring as hell. I think holographic conversation, finding diary, Suitcase of Biswas these were overstretched and unnecessary.

    It is somewhat good after that.
    3rajamukherjea

    Poor script and direction

    Unbelievable poor script and story dampens the enthusiasm of a Shonku fan. The movie looks like a documentary and less of a movie. The adventure movie doesnt build up pace even midway and fails to keep the audience interested.
    5Snootz

    Mildly entertaining but pointless entertainment

    India film about a brilliant inventor who visits Brazil and deals with an unscrupulous man. Slow-moving and without much purpose but story-telling entertainment. A couple of decent plot twists, and that's about it for anything notable.

    The actors play their parts well enough. I found the characters interesting in the portrayal, but not in development. They aren't exactly 2D characters, but not much fleshed out either. Still, the acting is likely the most interesting thing in this film. (The scenery is nice in places, as would be expected. Just not much of it.)

    This is basic story-telling, and rather slow-moving at that. The focus is on inter-character conversation rather than anything else. It can't be called "action-adventure" because (with the exception of one short scene involving flying arrows), there's simply not much action. As for adventure, the show never actually reaches a climax, and in the ending the movie just sort of ends (thud. Credits roll). So not much adventure to speak of.

    So it's okay for spending an hour and a half on a rainy afternoon when you're bored silly... but not much value beyond that. It's not the worst movie ever made, nor does it by any means warrant 10 stars. It's just a mediocre piece of filmery (had to coin a word to describe it)... and not much more.
    8majumdarananda

    Very good effort

    This was a tough one takes guts for a regional director to take the risk. Good acting clean direction with some flaws. Being a Shonku fan I am happy

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    • Release date
      • December 1, 2019 (India)
    • Countries of origin
      • Brazil
      • United States
      • India
    • Languages
      • Bengali
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Professor Shonku and El Dorado
    • Filming locations
      • Kolkata, West Bengal, India
    • Production company
      • SVF Entertainment
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      • 1h 30m(90 min)
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