Sangharsha (1995 film)

Sangharsha (transl. Collision) is a 1995 Indian Bengali-language political action film directed by Haranath Chakraborty. Produced by Prabir Kumar Rakshit and Gautam Sinha Roy under the banner of Laxmi Chitram, the film was based on a story by Anjan Choudhury, which itself was inspired from the political violence taken place in West Bengal during the late 1980s.^[1] It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Ranjit Mallick, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tapas Paul, Manoj Mitra, Dilip Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Laboni Sarkar and Chumki Choudhury in lead roles.^[2] Plotted in a village near Bolpur, which is ruled by two different gangs, always collide with each other for various social issues including a cold competition during the Durga Puja. During these violent situations, there arrives a doctor named Subhankar, who comes to know that both the leaders of the gangs are educated but are indulged to do anti-social activities forcibly by a local politician and a doctor. Then he takes the situation under control and becomes the inspiration for the gang members to be turned around. It was an all time blockbuster at the box office.

A village near Bolpur, divided into two territories - Dakshinpara and Uttarpara, are ruled by two power-seeking personalities: an MLA Deepak Dutta (Manoj Mitra) and a doctor Ashim Samanta (Dilip Roy) respectively. Both characters turn out to be corrupt in their own ways, and employ a group of hooligans who do their dirty work. The leader of Dutta's group is named Bhombol (Prosenjit Chatterjee) and the head of the doctor's group is named Rana (Tapas Paul). Rana is the son of a school teacher, but is unemployed, which leads him to ask Samanta for a job. Thereafter, the corrupt doctor begins exploiting him, involving him in anti-social activities. Similarly, MLA Deepak Dutta utilizes Bhombol for the sake of his power and position.

Shubhankar Chowdhury (Ranjit Mallick), a hard-working and honest doctor, comes to the village along with his sister Roma (Laboni Sarkar) and he soon starts challenging all kinds of local corruption. He fights with Bhombol and his companion to save a pregnant woman and her child, eventually taking the lady, along with her father, in his car to get help. Bhombol and his group plan to kidnap Shubhankar's sister as revenge for Shuvankar refusing to pay their extortion money. Bhombol has a change of heart though when Shubhankar offers to operate on his mother's heart without a fee. While collecting protection money, Rana tortures a tailor to make her give Rs. 500/- to him. Roma hears about this and reports the incident to the police, but the police officer refuses to act. It turns out that he gets bribe money from Dr. Samanta. Rana is instructed to cut Roma's hair in public as an act of revenge and does so.

Shubhankar recognises Rana's father as their childhood teacher and gives him basic treatment for some wounds. When news of Shubhankar's treatment is related to Rana, he feels ashamed for cutting Roma's hair and asks for forgiveness from Shubhankar and Roma. Dr. Samanta makes plans to kill Bhombol's mother and then to accuse Shubhankar of the crime, but the fact that Deepak is the culprit and Bhombol is the victim gets proved in the court with the help of a few photographs.

Deepak's son Rohit (Abhishek Chatterjee) and Samanta's daughter Soma (Chumki Choudhury) are in love with each other and speak out against their father's corruption. Samanta makes a confession in court regarding the conspiracy he made with MLA to kill Bhombol's mother. Dutta and Samanta get imprisoned for five years.