The character of Ankush was stupidly pushed in the movie from out nowhere. So when he dies in the middle (not a spoiler showed in the trailers) of the movie there nothing to add to from audiences side because we don't care because there is no character development for main character.that's bad. The main character Zulfiqar played by Prosenjit Chatterjee has no character development time. Other than that there are no other character development in the movie.Paoli Dam's character can be played by anyone unknown. Dev and Nusrat's Chemistry works in the movie. the things that works in the movie are the acting of Kaushik Sen which was amazing again. The directing and the script is too bad too handle.Music is below average. But with all that this movie fails big time in every level. The real Mountains of the Moon would have been the Rwenzori range which has dense tropical rain forests just like in the book.Zulfiqar has the biggest stars starring and one of the biggest directors of Bengali movies with the story adapted from Wlliam Sheakespear's books. Also, due to a mix-up in the names of the mountain ranges in the original book, the film mostly shows the Richtersveld mountains which hardly have any forest cover. One particular omission that pained me was the absence of any mention of the strange baobab tree, something that immensely fascinated the Shankar of the novel. The scenes in Salisbury of 1911 are believable, though obviously the city was not shown on a grand scale. The first lion sequence, the cave and the Kalahari have been shown particularly well. He got that mostly right barring a few exceptions. He had to shoot on location, show the real thing, or he would be caught cheating. However, the director's work was not easy either, since the viewer of today is raised on Discovery and National Geographic Channel documentaries on Africa. He must have had to work really hard to get most of the facts right. When Bibhutibhushan wrote the book, research was difficult. What will Shankar see next? What will the Bunyip do? While reading the novel we turn pages tense with anticipation. By the magic of his pen, Bibhutibhushan instills that same fear in the readers' hearts. Shankar never sees the Bunyip, but he sees what it can do, and he sees the fear in fearless Diego Alvarez's eyes when the Bunyip is mentioned.
Diego Alvarez says it is an animal that killed his friend.
Who or what is the Bunyip? The tribal people say he is an evil spirit who guards the diamond mines. Shankar, a youth from a remote Bengal village explores Africa with seasoned adventurer Diego Alvarez, and along with man-eating lions and black mambas and herds of elephants, he also runs into the mythical Bunyip lurking in the Mountains of the Moon. In my opinion this is where the story succeeds as a spine chilling adventure. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was no doubt aware of this problem when he was writing Chander Pahar, and so he decided to never expose Bunyip, the mythical beast that guards the diamond mines in his story.
That is the point where most horror movies fail - as soon as they show the cause of fear, a lot of their viewers simply stop being scared anymore. Which is the scariest real or fictional creature ever? Dracula? Frankenstein's monster? Spiders? King Kong? Ghosts from innumerable horror movies? Septopus? Dementor? Velociraptor? The answers will, of course, be as diverse as people are, since what scares one could seem comical to another.
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