Kolkata r King
112 mins | Bangla (English subtitles) | India
A celluloid adaptation of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, set in the city of Kolkata, the film is about the rise and fall of a gangster.
Directed by Judhajit Sarkar, is an unusual Bengali film, inspired by Bertold Brecht’s immortal play The Threepenny Opera. It is a sharp, if cynical, take on the inevitable compact between organised crime and the polity, and the co-option of agencies of the state such as the police and the city administration to maintain the status quo. Sarkar uses The Threepenny Opera as a guideline to show the collapse of moral values in Bengali society and, by implication, Indian society today, and the victory of evil over good in the city of Kolkata..
Directed By: Judhajir Sarkar
Produced By: Starfire Movies
Screenplay : Malay Bhattacharya
Cinematography : Surjodeep Ghosh
Editor - Argho Basu
Music - Vikramjit Banerjee (Tuki)
Anirban Bhattacharya
Sohini Sarkar
Rajatava Dutt
Subhasish Mukherjee
SYNOPSIS
Krishnakanta alias KK, also known as King, is an upcoming force in the underworld. Charismatic, ruthless and ambitious, he and his gang indulges in loot, murder, blackmail and commit criminal activities across Kolkata. With Rudra the police chief in his pocket, he is always ahead of the game. He has secretly married Rudra's daughter Priya, who is now pregnant with his child but concurrently has a string of extra marital affairs with Maya, a bar singer and his latest infatuation Keya, daughter of Bikram Sen, owner and director of a chain of private colleges. King elopes with Keya and marries her which makes Bikram furious with her daughter's betrayal and vows to take down King. He contacts Rudra and promises a large reward for his arrest. When Rudra refuses, Bikram realises that Rudra is on King's payroll. He comes to know of Maya the bar singer and entices her to drag King into a trap. King escapes again. On the run, Kings take shelter in an old age home taking hostage one of the old living there and fools the police once again. This rouses suspicion of a rat inside. Bikram meets Rudra and threatens him of a student protest. Fearing for his Job, Rudra goes to King's hideout and shoots him point blank. King is dead. There is however a divine intervention amidst popular demand to bring him back to life.