In this series of blogs, accompanying the release of Chander Pahar as a 6 part audio-book on the Bangla Golpo-Bengali Stories podcast. Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhaya's Chander Pahar, or the 'Mountain of the Moon', first published in 1937, is one of the best adventure stories in Bengali literature. The film, shot primarily on South African locations, does offer a plethora of gorgeous landscape vistas and enough exotic animals to fill a dozen episodes of Wild Kingdom. Chander Pahar: On the footsteps of Shankar. As blandly played by the handsome Adhikari, the central character never proves a particularly compelling figure, and the frequent action sequences are rendered in such clumsy fashion, including choppy editing and an overreliance on slow-motion, that they’re often visually incoherent. The choppy, episodic storyline is dragged out for over nearly two-and-a-half hours and quickly proves repetitive. Novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and was later adapted into a film of the same. The pair set off on an equally perilous trek through the wilderness in which they’re beset by such life-threatening episodes as a raging volcano and an attack by a mythical creature known as the “Bunyip.” Both are conveyed via rudimentary CGI effects that wouldn’t pass muster on a Saturday morning kiddie show. Famous Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay based on his long and arduous years in northern Bihar, where he came into contact with a part of the world, that, even now, remains unknown to most of us. He eventually meets and forms a friendship with Portuguese fortune hunter Diego ( Gerard Rudolf), who persuades him to leave his clearly dangerous job and join him on a search for the “Mountain of the Moon” that supposedly contains vast amounts of gold and diamonds.