Twenty-three years later, the film’s song, Chokh Tule Dekho Na, is still a staple during Durga Pujo celebrations in Kolkata. It created shockwaves with an infamous 30-second liplock between its two stars, Rituparna Sengupta and Prosenjit Chatterjee. With themes similar to the 1996 Hindi hit Raja Hindustani, it became the first Bengali film to cross the Rs 2 crore mark. It rolled out its blockbuster, Sasurbari Zindabad (2000) to record-breaking revenues. They would bounce back each time with bigger, bolder and better ideas.įour years after the Khamoshi debacle, SVF had perfected the art of making a commercial success. But for the cousins, these setbacks were stepping stones. Soni and Mohta suffered huge losses when Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Khamoshi: The Musical (1996)-for which SVF had distribution rights-bombed at the box office. Soni said this will allow them to make bigger “pan-Indian” blockbusters.īut their climb to the top of the game is interspersed with failures. The brainchild of two 20-year-old cousins from Howrah, Mahendra Soni and Shrikant Mohta, SVF, has completed nearly three decades in the film industry.
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