Mental – It Can Be your Love Story | |
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Mental film poster
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Directed by | Shamim Ahamed Roni |
Produced by | Parvez Chowdhury |
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Cinematography | Chandan Roy Chowdhury |
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Distributed by | Banglaxpress Films |
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Country | Bangladesh |
Language | Bengali |
Mental (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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Soundtrack album by Satrujit Dasgupta, Akassh, Rishi Chanda, Jojo, Antara Mitra, Sabrina Porshi, Shaan | |
Released | 2015 |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Label | Banglaxpress Film's / HTM Records (Digital Partner) |
Rana Pagla – The Mental (Past : Mental: It Can Be Your Love Story) (or simply Mental) is a Bangladeshi romantic-action thriller film featuring Shakib Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha with Achol, Sabrina Porshi, Misha Sawdagor and Shimul Khan in supporting roles. The film is directed by Shamim Ahmed, with a screenplay written by Abdullah Zahir and Daud Hussein. The film is produced by Parvez Chowdhury under the banner of Banglaxpress Films. The first theatrical look of the film was revealed on 1 February 2015.
Khan portrays the role of a generous businessman. Simi, portrayed by Tisha, is his love interest, and a crime news reporter. who is working on exposing corruptions of influential people of the society. Simi takes steps to fight the corrupt people, but soon realizes the influence of those men. Khan changes after a violent encounter in which his love interest, Simi was killed. The plot builds up around his quest to avenge the killing with aid of her research, in which she documents her encounter with her killers, who she planned to expose of corruption. The plot was inspired from Christopher Nolan's Memento. The film was released on Eid of 7 July 2016.
An underworld mafia steals valuable mineral resources and sell them over to international crime organization . Simi (Nusrat Imrose Tisha); a news reporter finds out and exposes the whole criminal chain to the media, despite all threats from them. An unknown, mysterious but affectionate and intimidating man comes up to help, The story revolves around revealing the true identity of him and his link to the Underworld.
By early 2014, Bangladesh Express Films announced its production and were preparing for the shooting for the film. The Abhi Pictures picked up the distribution rights of the film.The shooting officially started in Sylhet, Bangladesh on September 2014.
Shakib Khan was the first to be roped for the film by director Shamim Ahamed Roni. However, the director has considered many actresses for the lead role but later finalized Tisha, Achol and Porshi for lead female roles. The studio approached Porshi for the film to play the role of a musician while Tisha and Achol were roped to play news reporters.