Tell us about how important this book is to you and what drew you to bringing it to the big screen. With Chander Pahar, I took on a competent, commercial film that would both be accepted by the critics and loved by the audiences. My earlier films had received immense applause from critics I felt that they were commercially unviable. It certainly was very different from the films I have done in the past. How did taking on a project like Chander Pahar differ from past films?
Mukherjee, who recently won the Centenary Award at the 2013 International Film Festival of India, discussed the making of this highly anticipated film. Shankar’s true test begins when he rescues the Portuguese explorer Diego Alvarez and he tells the story of the ultimate adventure a journey to the fabled ‘Mountain of the Moon’. It is at this Nakuru station, where Shankar is faced with the consequences of Africa, ranging from bloodthirsty lions and aggressive Black Mambas. However, it is also the story of grit and determination, a story of following one’s dream against all odds and emerging victorious, a story about a young lad called Shankar who, faced with the prospect of having to make a living as a factory worker in his impoverished village, bids farewell to his family in Keutia, rural Bengal, and through his aide Prasad Das Banopadhay, who happens to work for the Uganda railway head office, sets sail to the Dark Continent to work as the station master in Nakuru station, a dream come true for Shankar who has always envisioned himself as a expeditionary and holds interest in world geography and map reading. ‘Chander Pahar’ is the journey to the fabled, ‘Mountain Of The Moon’, in search of gold and diamond mines, up against threats as vivid and varied as lurking snakes, pouncing lions, poisonous flora, the fury of an active volcano and a seemingly, almost supernatural mythical horror ‘The Bunyip’ the guardian angel of the diamond cave. The film stars Bengali superstar Dev Adhikari in the lead role, along with actors Gerard Rudolf, Martin Cito Otto, Nabeel Khan, Paul Ditchfield, and David James.
NEW YORK: Award-winning director Kamaleswar Mukherjee has won acclaim for his many films but now tackles his most ambitious motion picture to date, bringing to screen an iconic adventure novel thought to be un-filmable, ‘Chander Pahar’ (‘Mountain of the Moon’), based on the novel by: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.Īlready a critical and box office success in India, ‘Chander Pahar’ opens in theaters in the US with English subtitles on January 10, 2014.
Interview with ‘Chander Pahar’ director Kamaleswar Mukherjee.
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