One diamond he sends to his parents with a note to sell it and help the villagers with its money. When he recovers he sells four of his diamonds and for much money.
Fortunately, he is rescued by a survey team and taken to a hospital in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He becomes lost in the deserts of Kalahari and nearly dies of thirst. Shankar tries to move out by following the compass. Shankar moves out and the Bunyip gets pierced on the wood and dies.
The Bunyip turns up and, seeing its prey, jumps at it from a height. He fences the entrance with sharpened wood and waits for the Bunyip. Shankar collects sticks from the jungle and sharpens their tips into spears. Filled with revenge, he devises a plan to get rid of Bunyip. While crossing the jungle, he comes in contact with the Bunyip's cave. Shankar does so and keeps the old diamonds. The note said that whoever reads the note can take the diamonds as long as he buries his skeleton, with Christian rites. Gatti, as Shankar learns from a note by him, had uncut diamonds in his boots. He finds the remains of the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave he found earlier was the diamond mine. With great difficulty, he gets out, marking his way with "pebbles" and taking some back with him as a memento, not knowing each is an uncut diamond. He buries him with all rites and sets sail towards the mountain of the moon. Desolated Shankar mourns the death of Alvarez deeply. Eventually, they get lost in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the monster, in an effort to save Shankar's life. One night they were attacked by the monster Bunyip. The first is a raging volcano which forces them to halt their expedition. Shankar gives up his job and accompanies Alvarez as he decides to venture out once more and find the mines again. However, they were thwarted by the legendary Bunyip, a mythical monster who guards the mines and killed Carter. Alavarez tells him of his exploits and adventures, how he and his companion Jim Carter had braved deep jungles and mountains of Richtersveld to find the largest diamond mine. The encounter with Alavarez influences him deeply. He rescues and looks after the middle-age Portuguese explorer and gold prospector, Diego Alvarez. He tempts the lion out of his cave and eventually shoots him down. He poses as bait by pouring blood on himself and scatters meat chunks. This rages Shankar and he decides to end this peril. One day Tirumal becomes a victim of the same man-eating lion. They quickly strike a rapport and Tirumal visits him often. The next day he gets these things from another fellow Indian, Tirumal Appa, who is serving the British Army. He miffs the black mamba with his torchlight. The next day he asks the head stationmaster to provide him with a Springfield bolt-action rifle and carbolic acid as a day before he encounters another hazard in Africa: the poisonous black mamba. One evening Shankar is chased by a man-eating lion and luckily he reaches his cabin and locks the door.
He wants to follow the footsteps of famous explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, Marco Polo, all of whom he has read about and idolizes.īy a stroke of luck, he secures a job as a station master in a desolate station in Uganda Railway through a fellow villager working there and goes to Africa without a second thought. He yearns for adventure, wildlands, forests and animals. Shankar Ray Choudhuri is a 20-year-old man, recently completed his First Arts graduation and about to take up a job in a jute mill, a prospect he absolutely loathes. Main article: Plot summary of Chander PaharĬhander Pahar is the story of a young Bengali man's adventures in Africa from 1909-1910. It is the first film of the Chander Pahar franchise and was followed by Amazon Obhijaan in 2017. Critics consider it Dev's most memorable and recognizable work. Chander Pahar is the most successful film in Bengali cinema. This is the first Indian film to be extensively shot in South Africa. The trailer was released at the Nicco park at 5 pm, on the occasion of Children's Day on 14 November 2013. This is the first collaboration between Dev and Mukherjee, the latter having made only two films before: Uro Chithi and Meghe Dhaka Tara. It features Bengali actor Dev in the lead role as Shankar. Chander Pahar (released as Mountains of the Moon in the United States) is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language action-adventure film based on Chander Pahar by Bengali novelist Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and produced by Mahendra Soni and Shrikant Mohta under the banner of their production house Shree Venkatesh Films.
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