Chhotolok is

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thriller

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web series starring

Indrani Haldar Indrani Haldar is an Indian actress who is mostly known for her work in Bengali cinema. She was conferred with a National Award, three BFJA Awards and two Anandalok Awards. Halder made her debut in 1986 with the Bengali TV series ''Tero Pa ...

, Daminee Benny Basu,

Gaurav Chakrabarty Gaurav Chakrabarty is an Indian Bengali-language film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Prodipto Lahiri in the Bengali musical television series '' Gaaner Oparey'' that aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to ...

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, Ushashi Ray, Pratik Dutta and Ushasie Chakraborty. It was created and directed by Indranil Roychowdhury. It is also the director's first web series.

Plot

Desperate to come out of a failing marriage, a married man gets into a whirlwind affair with a glamorous woman who has a criminal past, but ends up as the prime accused when she is murdered. The case falls into a timid but determined cop who unearths a deep buried scandal about the man's family involving his politically affiliated mother.

Cast

as Mohor Bhattacharya: A political leader. *Damini Benny Basu as Sabitri Mondol: Sub-Inspector of Gajipur Police Station; Investigator of the murder case of Rupsha Ghosh. *

as Raja Bhattacharya: An engineer; Mohor's son; Mallika's husband. *

as Mallika Das: An accountant; Raja's wife. * Ushasi Ray as Rupsha Ghosh: Model cum actor; Mallika's ex colleague. * Ushasie Chakraborty as Kasturi Guha: A chartered accountant, who rules many "big fishes". *

Debesh Chattopadhyay Debesh Chattopadhyay (also Chatterjee) is an Bengali language, Indian Bengali film & theatre director and actor. He has also acted in a few Bengali films. Career Chattopadhyay is associated with theatre since 1984. At that time he was 18 ye ...

as Tanmay Bagchi: A political leader, MLA; Mohor Bhattacharya's rival. *Loknath Dey as Farooq. *

Joydip Mukherjee Joydip Mukherjee is an Indian film director, actor and writer primarily associated with Bengali language, Bengali language films. Career In 2008, Joydip started his career with directed television drama serial. Then he directed two more drama ...

as Aditya Bhattacharya: Mohor's husband; Raja's father. *Sumeet Samaddar as Madhusudan: Mohor's younger brother. *Jeet Sundar Chakrabarty as Basudev Das aka Basu. *Pratik Dutta as Jamil Sheikh: Junior of Sabitri. *Tapasya Dasgupta as Pushpo: Putul and Basu's mother. *Suvrajit Dutta as Rudra Mondal: A medicine shop keeper; Sabitri's husband. *

Episodes

Season 1 (2023)

Production

Director Indranil Roychowdhury started shooting for the show in October 2022 after a year of scripting and workshops with his actors.

Marketing

The show was officially announced by ZEE5 on December 11, 2022. Following that, a teaser poster of the show was first revealed on Jun 8, 2023. The trailer of the show was launched on October 12, 2023.

Reception

The show drew positive reactions across board from critics.

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call it "Bengal's best web series" rating it 4 out of 5.

OTTPlay HT Media is an Indian mass media company based in Delhi. It has holdings in print, electronic and digital media. HT Media's flagship newspaper is the ''Hindustan Times'', the second most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of ...

commented, "Chhotolok is one of the finest Bengali content available in India in the OTT space."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=tt29458434
''Chhotolok Trailer''
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