I
went in to watch Chander Pahar expecting incongruity – the barely-peripatetic
Bengali out in the open wilderness in Africa, on a treasure hunt that is not
his own. The first half of the movie kind of corroborated this impression. And
then came the second half. Some spiffy acting, stunning or near-stunning
vistas, and the Bengali explorer Shankar (Dev) standing shoulder to shoulder with the
Portuguese explorer Diego Alvarez (Gerard Rudolf). While the special effects
leave a lot to be desired, the movie itself is stunning – weaving its way
through the part-fiction part-reality almost-mythical lands of Africa
15.5/20
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