Shankar Roy Chowdhury, a 20-year-old man from Bengal, leaves his family and goes to Africa and Amazon in search of gold and diamond mines.
Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.