Sabuj Dwiper Raja

Sabuj Dwiper Raja (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃɔbuɟ d̪bipɛr rad͡ʒa]; transl. The King of the Green Island) is a 1979 Indian Bengali-language action-adventure film written and directed by Tapan Sinha. Produced by Children's Film Society, India, the film is based on the 1976 eponymous novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay, from his Kakababu series. It stars Samit Bhanja as Kakababu, alongside Arunava Adhikari as Shontu, while Ramen Roy Chowdhury, Biplab Chatterjee, Kalyan Chatterjee, Arun Mukherjee and Asim Dutta play other supporting roles.

The first screen adaptation of a Kakababu novel, it follows Kakababu and Shontu to the Andaman Islands, in order to stop a criminal gang from stealing a powerful energy source from a meteorite located in the territory of the indigenous Jarawa tribe, who are protected by a former freedom fighter. Predominantly shot in Andaman and Nicobar, with portions in Kolkata, the film was the most expensive Bengali film at that time. Bimal Mukherjee and Subosh Roy handled its cinematography and editing respectively. Music of the film was composed by Sinha himself, along with Aloke Nath De.

Sabuj Dwiper Raja was theatrically released on 17 August 1979, to positive reviews. Emerged as a box-office success, the film attained a cult status over the years.