Luchakali

Luchakali (English: Hide and seek) is an Oriya drama and thriller film released on 30 March 2012. it features Babushan, Shriya Jha, Samaresh Routray and Ajit Das in key roles with original music by Anbu Selvam.[1][2][3][4] It is partially inspired by Hollywood thriller Sleeping with the Enemy.

Luchakali
Poster
Directed bySusant Mani
Produced byNilakantha Das
Written bySusant Mani
StarringBabushan,
Shriya Jha,
Samaresh Routray,
Ajit Das
Music byAnbu Selvam
CinematographyAbhiram Mishra
Edited byBiren Mohanty
Production
company
Chakadola Production
Distributed byChakadola Production
Release date
  • 30 March 2012 (2012-03-30)
Running time
142 (min)
CountryIndia
LanguageOdia

Synopsis

Tanmay Mohanty (Babushan) is a sculpturist and deadly love with Monalisa Das (Sherya Jha). Tanmay is an orphan and Monalisa takes care of everything in the life of Tanmay. Oneday Monalisa's father become blind in an accident. To manage the poor financial condition of the family, Monalisa's step-mother agrees to the marriage proposal by one Kalidas Patnaik (Samaresh Routray[5]) with Monalisa with a consideration of heavy amount offered by Kalidas. Kalidas ia poet and has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder symptoms. After Kalidas's marriage with Monalisa, he tries to torture her a lot. While they are traveling in a boat, Monalisa escapes by jumping into water.

Kalidas tries to search Monalisa everywhere but can't find her. in the meanwhile Tanmay rescue Monalisa from water and keeps her in a secret place. Meanwhile, tries to take revenge upon Kalidas. When Kalidas with the help of Police Inspector Mohan (Bijay Mohanty traces their whereabouts, Tanmay and Monalisa escapes from the scene. At last when Kalidas tries to kill Monalisa, Tanmay reaches the scene, saves Monalisa by killing Kalidas.

Cast
  • Babushan ... Tanmay Mohanty
  • Shriya Jha ... Monalisa Das
  • Samaresh Routray ... Kalidas Patnaik
  • Bijay Mohanty ... Mohan Das
  • Ajit Das ... Mona's father
  • Bikash Das ... Nira Kakei
  • Shweta Acharya ... Monalisa's step mother
  • Ankita Bhowmick ... Priya
  • Megha Ghosh ... Item song dancer

filming

The film is shot at various locations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Dhenkanal. [6]

Review

The film generally received positive reviews from critics especially for Samaresh Routray. FullOrissa gave it 3 out of 5 and commented "It seems like Samaresh has shared this script with Susant Mani only for winning an award in the next upcoming celebrity award shows. Susant Mani as usual have done a great job in Luchakali. The movie is technically well driven, The Thrillers in this movie are one of its type in Oriya Movie Industry. ".[7] Odisha Today mentioned " Director Susant Mani, who is also written the script, made few experiment in the plot to give a different taste, a suspense thriller."[8] The New Indian Express quoted "The movie has a lot of special effects to keep the thrill quotient up. Even as the movie scores high on technical aspects, there are some loose ends to the music. Compared to Sushant’s previous hit Chocolate, the music in Luchakali is slow. The film’s music has been scored by Anbu Selvan who happens to be the guitarist of A R Rahman. Goodly Rath’s soulful musical touch in Sushant’s Chocolate is missing this time."[9]

Soundtrack

The Music for the film is composed by Anbu Selvam

Song Lyrics Singer(s)
Gumsum Gumsum Akhi ToraBapu GoswamiRatikant Satapathy, Tapu Misra
A Deha Barafa reBapu GoswamiSamaresh Routray, Mahalaxmi Iyer
Luha Sathe BandhanaBapu GoswamiBabushan, Tapu Misra
Akasharu Kichhi Megha AniBapu GoswamiBabushan, Tapu Misra
Luchakali (title song)Bapu GoswamiRitu Pathak

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Box office

The film did not well in the box office and declared as an average.[13]

Awards

References
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  3. "Odia Film 'Luchakali' to hit theater today in 45 theatre across state". orissadiary.tv. 3 March 2012.
  4. "New Oriya Film Luchakali Release Date". IncredibleOrissa. 29 February 2012.
  5. "Samaresh steals the show".
  6. "Love story turns thriller". The Telegraph. 30 March 2012.
  7. "Luchakali Odia film review". FullOrissaa.
  8. "Ollywood: 'Luchakali' hits silver screen today". Odisha Today. 30 March 2012.
  9. "Samaresh steals the show". The New Indian Express. 3 April 2012.
  10. "LUCHAKALI SONGS". IncredibleOrissa.
  11. "Odia Movie - Luchakali-Edeha Barafare - Samaresh - Megha Ghosh - Latest Odia Songs". Odia One.
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  13. "Actor Anubahav Mohanty, Arindam rocked in 2012 with superb performance". orissadiary.tv. 14 July 2014.
  14. "Winners of 4th Taranga Cine Award- 2013". Odishabook.com. 6 March 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  15. "ETV Awards nominations". ETV.
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