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Directed by | Anik Dutta |
Produced by | Joy Ganguly |
Screenplay by | Anik Dutta, Deb Roy |
Story by | Anik Dutta |
Starring |
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Parambrata Chatterjee Paran Bandopadhyay Swastika Mukherjee Biswajit Chakraborty Mir Afsar Ali Saswata Chatterjee Sreelekha Mitra Samadarshi Dutta |
Music by | Raja Narayan Deb |
Cinematography | Aveek Mukhopadhyay |
Edited by | Arghyakamal Mitra |
Production
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Satya Films
Mojo Productions |
Release date
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Running time
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123 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Budget | ₹0.6 crore (US$93,000) |
Box office | ₹3 crore (US$470,000) (100 days) |
Full movie at Youtube |
Bhooter Bhabishyat (English: Future of the past or future of ghost) is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Anik Dutta. The film became one of the biggest hits of 2012 among the Bengali films. It is a film with supernatural element. It is the directional debut of Anik Dutta. It was well received by various critics for its direction.
Ayan, an ad director, visits a palace like house for shooting his new ad.His dream is to make a movie but doesn't have enough money. A ghost named Biplab tells a story to Ayan.The story is about a haunted house which is being pulled down and being replaced with a swanky shopping mall.The ghosts living in the house threaten the millionaire who tries to make the shopping mall. Biplab gives enough money to Ayan to make the story a film. At the end, Ayan makes the movie.
Bengali film stars were present in the screening of the film in March 2012.The Indian Express gave Bhooter Bhabishyat a four-star rating and described the film as "one of the most intelligent and satiric comedies one has seen in a long time". The film was also released in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi in April 2012.
The film has been remade in Hindi as Gang of Ghosts, directed by Satish Kaushik.
Two of the films character has been portrayed in a ad-film of Bisk Farm Top biscuit; where Debdut Ghosh reprises his role as Keshab Narayan Chowdhury, and actor Pushpita Mukherjee replaces Swastika Mukherjee as Kadalibala Dasi.