Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Brutal
- intense
- swaggering
- violent
- action movie night
- gangster film marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Jeet’s commanding performance, slick action, music, and production scale while finding the period detail unconvincing and the many subplots overlong and convoluted.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The story follows Chengiz from the 1970s through the mid-1990s as he becomes Kolkata’s dominant street ruler.
The film presents 1970s-to-1990s Kolkata as a historical crime milieu, though critics specifically noted that the period detailing is not consistently convincing.
Jeet plays Chengiz as an imposing underworld ruler whose action scenes, one-liners, and mano-a-mano combat define the film’s appeal.
Multiple players pursue Chengiz, while betrayal and an extended climax gunfight intensify the crowded underworld conflict.
Films like Chengiz, and why
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
shared gangster saga, stylized action, underworld power struggles, and charismatic central criminal figure
Company
shared period crime setting, street-level ambition, shifting criminal alliances, and action-driven rise-and-fall narrative
K.G.F: Chapter 1
shared Indian gangster drama framework, violent criminal hierarchies, betrayal, and larger-than-life heroics
Movie Details
- Director
- Rajesh Ganguly
- Release Date
- 2023-01-05
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Jeet
- Susmita Chatterjee
- Shataf Figar
- Rohit Roy
- Ayush Das
- Biswarup Biswas
- Ayesha Bhattacharya
- Somnath Kar
Common questions
- What is Chengiz about?
- A larger-than-life Kolkata gangster claws his way from street criminal to underworld kingpin across two turbulent decades.
- What is Chengiz like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Chengiz as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Chengiz violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Chengiz as brutal.
- What did critics think of Chengiz?
- Critics broadly praised Jeet’s commanding performance, slick action, music, and production scale while finding the period detail unconvincing and the many subplots overlong and convoluted.
- Which films are like Chengiz?
- Films with a similar feel include Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Company, and K.G.F: Chapter 1.
- How long is Chengiz?
- Chengiz runs 149 minutes.
