Professor Shonku O El Dorado

Professor Shonku O El Dorado is a Bengali science fiction adventure drama film directed by Sandip Ray based on Nakur Babu O El Dorado, a story of Satyajit Ray. Dhritiman Chatterjee portrayed the protagonist character of Professor Shonku. The film released theatrically on 20 December 2019. Plot This is an adventure story of the fictional genius scientist and inventor Professor Shonku visiting the heart of the Amazon forests in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. One day, a typical Bengali gentleman Nakur Chandra Biswas alias Nakur Babu comes to meet him in Shonku's house in Giridih. He lives in Makardaha. Shanku realises that Nakur Babu has supernatural power having the ability to read other's minds and see the future. Nakur Babu warns him about the upcoming incidents of São Paulo. Seeing his extrasensory power, an amazed Shonku goes to Brazil with Nakur Babu to join a science conference and the mystery begins ending in the fabled city of El Dorado deep inside the Brazilian Amazon Cast Dhritiman Chatterjee as Professor Shonku Subhasish Mukhopadhyay as Nakur Chandra Biswas Eduardo Munniz as Lobo Jacqueline Mazarella as Professor Emilia Rodriguez Subhrajit Dutta as Samaresh Ricardo Dantas as Jeremy Saunders Roney Facchini as Wilhelm Krol Augusto Cesar as Hyter Meyerbeer Tapajós as Mike Felipe Montanari as Bob Fernando Coelho as Solomon Bloomgarten Udayshankar Pal as Prahlad Ratan Sarkhel as Tarak Reception The Times of India gave the film 3 stars out of five and said, "Despite a perfect look and sharp glances, Dhritiman remains less convincing as Shonku. An indefinable stiffness engulfs his performance that questions the spontaneity of the character. Meanwhile, Subhashish too goes overboard with emotion as Nakurbabu. The film involves a lot of foreign actors and they deliver a decent performance. The overall CGI also appears to be a bit flimsy. In children’s literature, Shanku makes a clean sweep with his scientific masterstrokes. However, his on-screen journey starts with a bumpy ride. Let’s hope for a better future for him."