Magno Mainak is a 2009 Crime Thriller based on the novel of same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The film is be directed by Swapan Ghosal, and produced by New Wave Communications.
This is the third Byomkesh Bakshi film adaptation. Actor Subhrajit Dutta acted as Byomkesh while Rajarshi Mukherjee played the role as Ajit. Piyali Munsi, Rupanjana Mitra, Gargi Roychowdhury and Biplab Chatterjee acted in other roles.
GenresHistorical ActorsMithun Chakraborty, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Kanchana Moitra, Kopil Bora, Gargi Roychowdhury, Shankar Chakraborty Rating66% The period was early 1970s. Brilliant brains from Calcutta Medical College to Presidency College, from Calcutta University to Bengal Engineering College, the meritorious boys and girls plunged into the revolution for social reform. They had given up their prosperous and promising careers for the sake of the society. However, the administration could eventually overcome the surge and more sadly, a few miscreants also took advantage of the general unrest for personal gain that eventually brought infamy to the revolution that was otherwise a dedicated and a respectable one. Thus the careers of these bright minds were doomed and many of them were killed and rest was forced to flee or go underground.
Chanchal, a young Calcuttan, spends most of his time finding a suitable girl to satisfy his love interest. After being disillusioned on several occasions, he finally manages to get proximity of a beautiful girl. But no sooner had he succeeded to win the girl's attention, he becomes blind in curse of God.
The eventful life of Swami Vivekananda has been captured in this film. The film shows the transition from young Narendra Nath Datta to world preacher Swami Vivekananda. Different events from his life starting from childhood days to meeting with the mystic saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa at Dakshineswar, Vivekananda's travel to Northern India, travel to the West (America, Europe), meeting with Sister Nivedita, and his works in India have been captured, thereby building his journey from being Narendranath to Vivekananda in bits and pieces.