Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy

Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy
Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy
	Movie poster
Directed by	Sandip Ray
Screenplay by	Sandip Ray
Based on	Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Bhut Bhabishyat ; Satyajit Ray's Brown Saheber Bari and Anath Babur Bhoy
Produced by	Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films
Starring	Paran Bandyopadhyay; Saswata Chatterjee; Abir Chatterjee; Bhaswar Chatterjee
Narrated by	Paran Bandyopadhayay
Cinematography	Sasanka Palit
Edited by	Subrata Roy
Music by	Sandip Ray
Release date	21 December 2012 (Kolkata);
Running time	94 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	1.5 cr
Box office	3 cr

Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy (English: Where there is a fear of ghosts) is a 2012 Indian Bengali film directed by Sandip Ray. There are three short ghost stories in this film.^[1]^[2]

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’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).^[3]

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 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 as Anathbandhu Mitra
Subhrajit Dutta as Sitesh Chatterjee
Abanti Mohan Banerjee as Pranab Banerjee
Haradhan Bose as Bharadwaj

Brown Saheber Bari

Abir Chatterjee as Ranjan Sengupta
Bhaswar Chatterjee as Anikendra Bhowmik
Biswajit Chakraborty as Hrishikesh Banerjee
Lew Hilt as Dr. Larkin
Sanjiban Guha as Nitish Samaddar

Bhut Bhabishyat

Saswata Chatterjee as Pratap Sarkar
Paran Bandyopadhyay as Nandadulal Nandy
Mousumi Bhattacharya as Komola
Pradip Mukherjee as Gopidulal Nandy
Panchu Gopal Dey as Nikunja Pal

Filming

The film is produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films. The shooting of this film has been done in different places like Shantiniketan, Kalimpong, Raipur etc.^[3] 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.

References

^ "Sandip Ray's ghost film". The Telegraph Calcutta. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
^ "Bhaswar Chatterjee to wear Satyajit's blue sweater". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Ghost 'writers'". The Statesman. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.