''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 Bengali cinema. He is the only child of the famous Bengali director Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray. Life and education Sandip Ray was born in C ...

. 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'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 writer. He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Sharadindu compos ...

’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

Paran Bandyopadhyay Paran BandopadhyaySpelling according tTimes of IndiaanTelegraph, Calcutta We'll follow this spelling. (alternate spelling Paran BandyopadhyaySpelling according t/ref> or Paran BanerjeeAlternative of surname ''Bandopadhyay'', see Banerjee) is an ...

Tarini Khuro Tarini Khuro is a fictional character created by Satyajit Ray. Literally it means ''respected uncle Tarini''. ''Khuro'' in old colloquial Bengali means paternal uncle. The full name of Tarini Khuro is Tarini Charan Bandopadhyay. 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 Rab ...

as Anathbandhu Mitra *

Subhrajit Dutta Subhrajit Dutta is an Indian film and theatre actor who appears in Bengali films and television serials. Some of the notable Bengali films he acted in include '' Ebar Shabor'', Manojder Adbhut Bari, '' Eagoler Chokh'', '' Double Feluda''. Career ...

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 theater personalities Phalguni Chatterjee and Rumki Chatterjee. He started his career with Bengali television and made his debut i ...

as Ranjan Sengupta *

Bhaswar Chatterjee Bhaswar Chattopadhyay or Bhaswar Chatterjee (born 8 March 1975) is a Bengali film and television actor. He attended high school at South Point School and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKl ...

as Anikendra Bhowmik *

Biswajit Chakraborty Biswajit Chakraborty, (born 29 October 1948) is an Indian film actor who appears predominantly in Bengali movies. He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. His debut movie was '' Sunya Theke Suru'' directed by Ashoke Viswanathan. He has acted in more ...

as Hrishikesh Banerjee * Lew Hilt as Dr. Larkin * Sanjiban Guha as Nitish Samaddar

Bhut Bhabishyat

Saswata Chatterjee Saswata Chatterjee (born 19 December 1970) is an Indian actor of television and films based in Kolkata. Born to actor Subhendu Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee began his career with a Hindi serial directed by Saibal Mitra, based on Samaresh Majum ...

as Pratap Sarkar *

as Nandadulal Nandy * Mousumi Bhattacharya as Komola *

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 Bengali movies. Although not famous for acting in mainstream movies, Pradip Mukherjee received cr ...

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 media and entertainment company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, founded by Shrikant Mohta. Apart from producing and distributing Bengali films, SVF also distributes Bollywood and Hollywood films ...

and Surinder Films. The shooting of this film has been done in different places like

Shantiniketan Santiniketan 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 later expanded by his s ...

, Kalimpong,

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 Ch ...

etc. The film released on 21 December 2012.

Home video release

The film was released in Anamorphic Widescreen DVD format on March, 2013 with English subtitles and some bonus features in all regions with 5.1 channel surround sound for non-commercial home viewing.

References

External links

* {{Satyajit Ray 2012 films Indian children's films Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films Films directed by Sandip Ray

Plot

Anath Babur Bhoy

Brown Saheber Bari

Bhoot Bhobishyot

Cast

The story teller and listeners

Anath Babur Bhoy

Brown Saheber Bari

Bhut Bhabishyat

Filming

Home video release

See also

References

External links