"We may not have anticipated it would become such a big success," the physician-turned 'Uro Chithi' director told PTI on the occasion of the Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay children's adventure thriller based on South Africa notching up the 100 days' screening record.
"Even today there is 35 per cent occupancy rate at Inox and other plexes. The film was also feted and applauded in overseas," Kamaleswar said attributing the success to the fiction's protagonist Shankar, a.K.A Dev.
The film's music director Debojyoti Mishra said, "In this film Kamaleswar, Lion, Black Mamba, Elephant and Dev - everybody is the Hero."
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