# Challenge (2009 film)

Challenge: Nibi na Saala or simply Challenge is a 2009 Indian Bengali-language action film written and directed by Raj Chakraborty. Produced by Shrikant Mohta under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, the film stars Dev and Subhashree Ganguly in the lead roles, while Rajatava Dutta, Biswajit Chakraborty, Supriyo Dutta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar, Tulika Basu and Partha Sarathi Chakraborty play other pivotal roles. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli and cinematography was by Somak Mukherjee. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Raj Chakraborty and N. K. Salil. Being a remake of the Telugu film Dil (2003), it also had some plot elements and scenes from Bunny (2005).

## Plot

Abir joins college and comes across Pooja, the daughter of a ruthless businessman. Her father is strict and conservative in taking care of Pooja and does not tolerate if anyone, directly or indirectly, disturbs or approaches Pooja. Abir is bullied by a bunch of students and he pays them back in return by beating them all up. He also confronts her father's henchmen and makes them apologize when they misbehave with him before his fight with the students. Pooja is highly impressed on seeing this and she falls in love with him. He reciprocates and the two start dating. Pooja's father finds out about their relationship and opposes it. The rest of the story is how Abir and Pooja unite after a series of problems.

## Cast

* Dev as Abir Ganguly
* Subhashree Ganguly as Pooja Sen
* Rajatava Dutta as Agnideb Sen, Pooja's Father, an industrialist and a local don
* Tulika Basu as Chandra Sen, Pooja's Mother
* Biswajit Chakraborty as Samir Ganguly, Abir's Father
* Laboni Sarkar as Purnima Ganguly, Abir's Mother
* Kharaj Mukherjee as Gouranga 'Gour' Chatterjee, the Principal of the college
* Partha Sarathi Chakraborty as Gopal, Abir's friend
* Supriyo Dutta as Kartik Da, Agnideb's henchman
* Prasun Gain as Poncha, Kartik's assistant
* Pradip Dhar as Bhoja, Kartik's assistant
* Abhimanyu Mukherjee as Ranjan, Abir and Pooja's classmate
* Tamal Roy Chowdhury as Pooja's maternal grandfather
* Debranjan Nag as Bhajahari, the Postman of the college and Gour's friend
Special appearance
* Raj Chakraborty as himself

## Production
### Pre-production

After the success of Chirodini ...Tumi Je Amar (2008), Raj Chakraborty became a leading director in the industry. During the end of 2008, Sangeet Bangla reported that his next project was going to be a mass-class combo film with a strong social message, which was being written by N.K Salil. After the completion of the script, in January 2009, the film's title was revealed to be Challenge with the music composed by Jeet Gannguli.

### Casting

Since the initial position, Chakraborty's choice was Dev to play the protagonist in the film as he worked with him for the song Pante Taali in Chirodini ... Tumi Je Amar before. Subhashree Ganguly, who acted opposite Soham Chakraborty in the film Bajimaat (2008) before, was signed to play the lead opposite Dev. For an important role, Rajatava Dutta was signed and for the other supporting roles, Supriyo Dutta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Debranjan Nag, Biswajit Chakraborty and others were reported to be in.

### Shooting

The filming took place in Kolkata and the outskirts of Purulia. The song Bhojo Gourango was shot in a hotel of Mumbai featuring Dev and the choreographer Duraiswamy Shankaraiyaa. In Dubai, the song Mahi Ve was shot marking the first Bengali film to be filmed there.The interval and climax action scene was shot in Purulia.

## Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli, while the background score was by S.P Venkatesh. The lyrics were penned by Nachiketa Chakraborty, Priyo Chattopadhyay, Dipangshu Acharyaa, Abhimanyu Mukherjee and Gautam Sushmit.

## Spin-off Sequel

Challenge 2 (2012) with no similarities to the previous one. Raj Chakraborty did a cameo appearance in the film.