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Running time 148 minutes Country India Language Budget ₹15 crore Box office ₹20 crore Chander Pahar (released as Mountains of the Moon in the United States) is a 2013 Indian based on by novelist, directed by and produced by Mahendra Soni and Shrikant Mohta under the banner of their production house. It features Bengali actor in the lead role as Shankar.

This is the first collaboration between Dev and Mukherjee, the latter having made only two films before: Uro Chithi. Shooting commenced on 20 April 2013. The film released on 20 December 2013.

The trailer was released at the at 5 pm, on the occasion of on 14 November 2013. This is the first Indian film to be extensively shot in South Africa.

Chander Pahar is the most successful film in. Critics consider it Dev's most memorable and recognizable work.

It is the first installment of. The movie has a sequel titled. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Chander Pahar is the story of a young Bengali man's adventures in Africa in 1909-1910. Shankar Roy Chowdhury (), the protagonist, is a 20-year-old man, recently completed his First Arts graduation and about to take up a job in a mill, a prospect he absolutely loathes. He yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals. He wants to follow the footsteps of famous explorers like,,, all of whom he has read about and idolizes.

By a stroke of luck, he secures a job as a station master in a desolate station in through a fellow villager working there and goes to Africa without a second thought. One evening Shankar is chased by a man-eating lion and luckily he reaches his cabin and locks the door. The next day he asks the head stationmaster to provide him with a Springfield bolt-action rifle and carbolic acid as a day before he encounters another hazard in Africa: the poisonous.

He miffs the black mamba with his torchlight. The next day he gets these things from another fellow Indian, Tirumal Appa, who is serving the British Army. They quickly strike a rapport and Tirumal visits him often. One day Tirumal becomes victim of the same man-eating lion. This rages Shankar and he decides to end this peril. He poses as bait by pouring blood on himself and scatters meat chunks. He tempts the lion out of his cave and eventually shots him down.

He rescues and looks after the middle-age Portuguese explorer and, Diego Alvarez. The encounter with Alavarez influences him deeply. Alavarez tells him of his exploits and adventures, how he and his companion Jim Carter had braved deep jungles and mountains of to find the largest. However, they were thwarted by the legendary, a mythical monster who guards the mines and killed Carter. Shankar gives up his job and accompanies Alvarez as he decides to venture out once more and find the mines again.

They meet with innumerable hardships. The first is a raging which forces them to halt their expedition. One night they were attacked by the monster Bunyip. Eventually they get lost in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the monster, in an effort to save Shankar's life. Desolated Shankar mourns the death of Alvarez deeply.

He buries him with all rites and sets sail towards the mountain of moon. Shankar sets out to reach civilization. He finds the diamond mines by accident. He enters the cave and gets lost.

Nero cracked torrent. With great difficulty, he gets out, marking his way with 'pebbles' and taking some back with him as memento, not knowing each is an uncut diamond. He finds the remains of the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave he found earlier was the diamond mine.

Gatti, as Shankar learns from a note by him, had uncut diamonds in his boots. The note said that whoever reads the note can take the diamonds as long as he buries his skeleton, with Christian rites. Shankar does so and keeps the old diamonds. While crossing the jungle, he comes in contact with the Bunyip's cave. Filled with revenge, he devises a plan to get rid of Bunyip. Shankar collects sticks from the jungle and sharpens their tips into spears.