''Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy'' (English: ''Where there is a fear of ghosts'') is a 2012 Indian
Bengali film directed by
Sandip Ray
Sandip Ray (born 8 September 1953) is an Indian film director and music director who mainly works in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is the only child of the famous Indian director Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray.
Life and education
San ...
. There are three short ghost stories in this film.
Plot
The film starts with
Tarinikhuro or Tarinicharan Banerjee, one of Satyajit Ray's characters, telling some boys from his fanclub about ghosts. In the first and second stories the ghosts he talks about were
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligraphy, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influ ...
's ''Anath Babur Bhoy'' and ''Brown Saheber Bari''. The last one was
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was an Indian Bengali language, Bengali-language writer. He was actively involved with Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali dete ...
’s ''Bhoot Bhobishyot''. (Initially four stories were supposed to be filmed, but the fourth one, ''Lucknow-er Duel'' was dropped later to avoid the length).
Anath Babur Bhoy
Anath Babur Bhoy ( Anath Babu's Terror ) revolves around the story of Anathbandhu Mitra, who is a ghost hunter. He, along with his friend, Sitesh Babu, narrate their experience regarding a dilapidated haunted house, Haldar Mansion, "Haldar Bari".
Brown Saheber Bari
Brown Saheber Bari ( Mr. Brown's Cottage ) is about "Simon", a mysterious entity whom the owner of the cottage, a British gentleman loved dearly.
Bhoot Bhobishyot
The story is based on a peculiar relationship between a writer and a friendly 19th century ghost. It is a light-hearted story with a memorable twist at the end of it all.
Cast
The story teller and listeners
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Paran Bandyopadhyay as
Tarini Khuro
* Subham Das as Poltu
* Ayus Das as Nyapla
* Amit Das as Bhulu
* Aritra Ghosh as Sunanda
* Ayan Shur as Chatpati
* Bimal Ghosh as Lakshman (the servant)
Anath Babur Bhoy
*
Dwijen Bandopadhyay
Dwijen Bandyopadhyay (22 September 1949 – 27 September 2017) was a veteran Bengali actor and theater personality from West Bengal, India. He worked onstage from the 1970s. Bandyopadhyay has also been a professor in the department of Drama at R ...
as Anathbandhu Mitra
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Subhrajit Dutta
Subhrajit Dutta is an Indian film and theatre actor who appears in Bengali language, Bengali films and television serials. Some of the notable Bengali films he acted in include ''Ebar Shabor'', Manojder Adbhut Bari, ''Eagoler Chokh'', ''Double F ...
as Sitesh Chatterjee
* Abanti Mohan Banerjee as Pranab Banerjee
* Haradhan Bose as Bharadwaj
Brown Saheber Bari
*
Abir Chatterjee
Abir Chatterjee (born 18 November 1980) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Bengali cinema. He is the son of theatre personalities Phalguni Chatterjee and Rumki Chatterjee. He started his career with Bengali television and made his debut i ...
as Ranjan Sengupta
*
Bhaswar Chatterjee as Anikendra Bhowmik
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Biswajit Chakraborty as Hrishikesh Banerjee
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Lew Hilt as Dr. Larkin
* Sanjiban Guha as Nitish Samaddar
Bhut Bhabishyat
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Saswata Chatterjee
Saswata Chatterjee (born 19 December 1970) is an Indian actor known for his work in Bengali cinema and television, with appearances in Hindi films. The son of actor Subhendu Chatterjee, he began his career with a Hindi television series direc ...
as Pratap Sarkar
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Paran Bandyopadhyay as Nandadulal Nandy
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Mousumi Bhattacharya as Komola
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Pradip Mukherjee
Pradip Mukherjee, also known as Pradip Mukhopadhyay (11 August 1946 – 29 August 2022), was an Indian actor and dramatist who primarily acted in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali movies. Although not famous for acting in mainstream movies, Pradip ...
as Gopidulal Nandy
*
Panchu Gopal Dey as Nikunja Pal
Filming
The film is produced by
Shree Venkatesh Films
SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian film production and distribution company, founded by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni in 1995. Apart from producing and distributing Bengali films in West Bengal, Bangladesh, Assam and Tripura, SVF a ...
and Surinder Films. The shooting of this film has been done in different places like
Shantiniketan
Shantiniketan (IPA: ƒantiniketÉ”n is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and ...
,
Kalimpong
Kalimpong is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located at an average elevation of . The town is the headquarters of the Kalimpong district. The region comes under Gorkhaland Territo ...
,
Raipur
Raipur ( ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raipur is also the administrative headquarters of Raipur district and Raipur division, and the largest city of the state. It was a part of Madhya Pradesh before the state of Chh ...
etc.
The film released on 21 December 2012.
Home video release
The film was released in Anamorphic Widescreen DVD format in March 2013 with English subtitles and some bonus features in all regions with 5.1 channel surround sound for non-commercial home viewing.
See also
* ''
Bhooter Bhabishyat'', 2012 Bengali film
*
Chaar
References
External links
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{{Shree Venkatesh Films
2012 films
Indian children's films
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
Films directed by Sandip Ray
Surinder Films
SVF Entertainment films
Bengali-language horror films
Bengali-language anthology films