The film, poorly received by critics and the Bengali audience, citation needed was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and has been shot on locations across Africa. Lured by a priceless, uncut yellow diamond gifted by the Chief of a Kaafi village, Alvarez and Carter had resolved to find the cave of these yellow diamonds, located on the Mountain of the Moon- Chander Pahar- believed to be guarded by the mythical monster, the Bunyip.The explorers set off, much against the villagers’ advice, braved the dense jungle and hostile environment but met with disaster- for Carter was gruesomely killed, supposedly by the Bunyip. A film based on the novel, named Chander Pahar directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee was released on 20 December 2013 (27 December 2013 in all over India). While recuperating, Alvarez narrated his earlier exploits in Africa with his friend Jim Carter. His arrival is the turning point in Shankar’s life. For anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, government works, works of corporate authorship or of international organizations, and posthumous works (other than those above), this template applies to works published before January 1, 1941, and for any. copyrights.This template applies to works first published in India. One day in the African jungle Shankar who was on job, rescued Alvarez and nursed him back to life. For background information, see the explanation on Non-U.S.
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The way Bandopadhyay ropes the two men and sets them on to explore the deepest reaches of Richters veld for the Mountain of the Moon or Chander Pahar, will beat any Hollywood adventure thriller. Was there really a Portuguese traveller named Diego Alvarez as depicted in Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s "ChanderPahar"? Well, this Portuguese explorer who was also thought to be a gold and diamond prospector and befriended protagonist Shankar, was in reality, afictional character.