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Tulkalam

2007 Indian Bengali film by Haranath Chakraborty

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7852113
Source-derived summary

Tulkalam (trans...Danger) is a 2007 Indian Bengali-language political action thriller film directed by Haranath Chakraborty. The screenplay and story was written by Anjan Chowdhury, before his death and produced by Pijush Saha, under the banner of Prince Entertainment P4. It stars Mithun Chakraborty, Rachana Banerjee, Rajatava Dutta, Hara Patnaik, Paoli Dam and Amitabh Bhattacharya in lead roles,

Plot

Inspired by the Tata-nano controversy, it plots the land scams taking place at fictional Haridebpur, where the MLA Abinash Mukherjee and his brother in law Haripada Samanta try to take over all the land of the farmers as they made a deal with the U.B company to make factories on the land. Another leader of the area, Satyabrata Roy plans to undertake the land by protesting against Mukherjee. Then all of a sudden, a mysterious man, Toofan comes to the village to dismiss the deal and to stop the dangerous situation created by the political leaders.

Cast

Mithun Chakraborty as CBI officer Tanmay Sanyal aka Toofan

Rachana Banerjee as Gauri, Toofan's love interest

Hara Patnaik as Avinash Mukherjee, MLA of Haridebpur

Ashok Bhattacharya as Parimal Ghosh, farmer's leader and Panchayat party head

Rajatava Dutta as Haripada Samanta, Avinash's brother-in-law

Amitabh Bhattacharjee as Chhoton Shikdar

Biplab Chatterjee as Central Minister

Arun Bannerjee as Municipality Chairman Satyabrata Chappel

Mrinal Mukherjee as Salim Rahman

Anamika Saha as Banolata Shikdar

Rajesh Sharma as Pratap Mondal, Officer in Charge of Haridebpur Police Station

Paoli Dam as Priya Chappel

Amitava Bhattacharya as Alam

Ramen Roy Chowdhury as DIG

Nimu Bhowmik as Head of U.B. group

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ashok-Raj, while the dialogues were written by N.K Salil.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tulkalam” as 2007 Indian Bengali film by Haranath Chakraborty. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Tulkalam, Indian and Bengali can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2007 Indian Bengali film by Haranath Chakraborty. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7852113. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Tulkalam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.