Golondaaj is a 2021 Indian Bengali-language historical sports drama film directed by Dhrubo Banerjee and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of SVF. The film stars Dev, Alexx O'Nell, Anirban Bhattacharya, Ishaa Saha, Indrasish Roy, John Bhattacharya, Mirchi Agni and Srikanta Acharya. It is based on the life of Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, "Father of Indian football".[3][4] The film was a blockbuster at box-office. Despite Tonic was a blockbuster at box-office but at the end it's runtime Golondaaj was a clean 'theatrical' blockbuster. At Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021, Dhrubo Banerjee won Best Screenplay award for Golondaaj.[5]
Based on true events, Golondaaj depicts the inspiring journey of Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, "The Father of Indian Football" who was the first Indian to play the sport and open a professional football club in the country.
The list of actors and actresses of the film was released on 25 January 2020 from the Twitter handle of SVF. That list shows that Dev, Anirban Bhattacharya, Ishaa Saha, Indrasish Roy, Srikanta Acharya, John Bhattacharya are acting in the film.[8] A The Times Of India article dated 2 April 2020 subsequently revealed Alexx O'Nell stars as Major Frederick Jackson, antagonist of the film.
It is the third film of director Druvo Banarjee and first time collaboration with Dev.
The shooting for the film began in Kolkata from 5 February 2020.[6] Due to COVID-19 Pandemic they had to pause the shooting. The shooting was resumed on 1 December 2020 and wrapped up on 24 February 2021.[9]
The background score and the soundtracks are composed by Bickram Ghosh and lyrics are penned by Srijato and Sugato Guha.
The film released theatrically on 10 October 2021 and the Hindi dub was released theatrically on 12 November 2021 by SVF. It was later digitally released on SVF's official OTT platform, the Hindi dub was also released on JioCinema and the Bengali original on hoichoi, internationally Amazon Prime Video was the release platform. It had its television premiere on Star Jalsha.[10]
Golondaaj Official Movie Game, a football sports mobile video game was released alongside the film as a tie-in and was developed by Hungama Games.
The film got positive to mixed reviews from critics who praised the direction, acting performances and music but found the screenplay flawed.[11][12] At Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021, Dhrubo Banerjee won Best Screenplay award for Golondaaj.[5]
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