Bhooter Bhabishyat

Bhooter Bhabishyat (ভূতের ভবিষ্যৎ English: Future of the past or future of ghost) is a 2012 Indian Bengali ghost comedy film directed by Anik Dutta. The film became one of the biggest hits of 2012 among the Bengali films.[2] It is a film with supernatural element.[3] It is the directorial debut of Anik Dutta. It was well received by various critics for its direction.

Bhooter Bhabishyat
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnik Dutta
Produced bySappy banzz
Screenplay byAnik Dutta, Deb Roy
Story byAnik Dutta
StarringSabyasachi Chakrabarty
Parambrata Chatterjee
Paran Bandopadhyay
Swastika Mukherjee
Sumit Samaddar
Biswajit Chakraborty
Mir Afsar Ali
Saswata Chatterjee
Sreelekha Mitra
Samadarshi Dutta
Music byRaja Narayan Deb
CinematographyAveek Mukhopadhyay
Edited byArghyakamal Mitra
Production
company
Satya Films
Mojo Productions
Release date
  • 16 March 2012 (2012-03-16)
(West Bengal)
  • 13 April 2012 (2012-04-13)
(Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Budget₹0.6 crore (US$84,000)[1]
Box office₹3 crore (US$420,000) (100 days)[1]

Plot

Ayan, an ad director, visits a palace-like house for shooting his new ad. His dream is to make a movie but he 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 into a film. At the end, Ayan makes the movie.

Cast
  • Paran Bandopadhyay as Darpa Narayan Chowdhury, the owner of the house, the zamindar ghost
  • Swastika Mukherjee as Kadalibala Dasi, an actress ghost from the 1940s
  • Sumit Samaddar as Bhootnath Bhaduri, a refugee ghost from Bangladesh
  • Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Biplab Dasgupta, the story teller and a Naxalite ghost
  • George Baker as Sir Donald Ramsey, an Englishman ghost
  • Mir Afsar Ali as Ganesh Bhutoria, the builder
  • Udayshankar Pal as Atmaram Paswan, the rickshawpuller ghost from Bihar
  • Pradip DasGupta as Khaja Khan, the cook ghost from Siraj-ud-Daula's kitchen
  • Samadarshi Dutta as Pablo Patranabis, the rock musician ghost
  • Mumtaz Sorcar as Koel Dhar, the ghost of an industrialist's daughter
  • Parambrata Chatterjee as Ayan Sengupta, an aspiring director
  • Biswajit Chakraborty as Brigadier Yudhajit Sarkar, an Army Officer's ghost who died during the Kargil War
  • Arunava Dutta as Nantu, Production Manager
  • Ashes Bhattacharyya as lawyer of Ganesh Bhutoria
  • Bibhu Bhattacharya as Sudhirbabu, caretaker of "Chowdhury Palace"
  • Saswata Chatterjee as Haatkata Kartik, a criminal ghost
  • Sreelekha Mitra as Madhumita Sanyal
  • Monami Ghosh as Laxmi, Bhutoria's dead wife
  • Kharaj Mukherjee as Pramod Pradhan aka Pod Podhan (Po'od P'odhan)
  • Sanjay Biswas as T. K. Guchait, Bhutoria's secretary
  • Anindita Bose as Rinka
  • Debdut Ghosh as Keshab Narayan Chowdhury, lover of Kadalibala

Release

Bengali film stars were present in the screening of the film in March 2012.[4] 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".[5] The film was also released in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi in April 2012.[6]

Remake

The film has been remade in Hindi as Gang of Ghosts, directed by Satish Kaushik.

Legacy

Two of the films character has been portrayed in an 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.[7]

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See also

References
  1. Nag, Ashoke (28 June 2012). "Small-budget Tollywood film, Bhooter Bhobishyot, is the biggest hit in Tollygunge". The Economic Times. Archived from Economictimes the original Check |url= value (help) on 9 November 2014.
  2. Ghosts meet for Datta’s Bhooter Bhabishyat, The Daily Telegraph
  3. Bhuter Bhabishyat (2012) - Cinematic Magic in a Supernatural Bengali Film Par Excellence, Washingtonbanglaradio.com
  4. Celebs at Bhooter Bhabishyat premiere, The Times of India
  5. Bhooter Bhabishyat - The Future Of The Past (Bangla), The Indian Express
  6. "Bhhoter Bhabishyat to be released in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore". Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  7. http://www.slideshare.net/SOAHOMANIA/phoenix-inter-collegeschool-finals
External video
Full movie at Youtube
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