''Bhooter Bhabishyat'' (ভূতের ভবিষ্যৎ en, Future of the past or future of ghost) is a 2012 Indian

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comedy 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.Bhuter Bhabishyat (2012) - Cinematic Magic in a Supernatural Bengali Film Par Excellence
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Plot

Ayan Sengupta, 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 man named Biplab Dasgupta, whom Ayan encounters in the house, narrates a story to him. The story is about an old decrepit house called the Chowdury Mansion, which was haunted by the spirit of its last owner, before other wandering ghosts settled down. A shooting of a movie named 'Antarjash' was happening where Madhumita Sanyal, the lead actress, lost consciousness while she gave shot. When she regained consciousness, she said that she saw the reflection of a unknown woman in the mirror. The first section of the story, describes the ghosts familiarizing with each other and as their initial hostility towards each other disappears, they start to regard each other as friends. Unfortunately, this atmosphere of peace and tranquility is destroyed when the ghosts discover that a greedy, plot dealer had made up his mind to convert the large, old house into a deluxe shopping mall. It is then upon the ghosts to figure out, how they will go about trying to save the house that granted them shelter, even after their deaths. Will they be able to save Chowdury Mansion from the prying eyes of the selfish dealer? Will Ayan be able to identify who this Biplab Dasgupta is and make his film debut?

Cast (in order of appearance)

* Paran Bandopadhyay as Darpa Narayan Chowdhury, the ghost of a 19th century '' zamindar'', and the last owner of the mansion *

Swastika Mukherjee Swastika Mukherjee (born 13 December 1980) is an Indian actress and the daughter of the late Santu Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee made her screen debut with ''Devdasi'', a Bengali TV series. She made her big screen debut with '' Hemanter Pakhi'' (20 ...

as Kadalibala Dasi, an actress's ghost from the 1940s *

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as Bhootnath Bhaduri, the ghost of a refugee from Bangladesh * Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Biplab Dasgupta, the story teller and the ghost of a Naxalite * George Baker as Sir Donald Ramsey, an Englishman's ghost who was killed by a freedom fighter *

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as Ganesh Bhutoria, the builder * Udayshankar Pal as Atmaram Paswan, a rickshawpuller ghost from Bihar * Pradip DasGupta as Khaja Khan, the ghost of the cook who served

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* Samadarshi Dutta as Pablo Patranabis, the rock musician ghost *

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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 *

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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 *Suchismita Chowdhury as Sonali, the news reporter who was shown before the casting of the movie * Md Jakir Hossain as Raj

Release

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.

Remake

The film has been remade in Hindi as ''

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'', directed by Satish Kaushik.

Legacy

Two of the films character has been portrayed in an ad-film of

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Top biscuit; where Debdut Ghosh reprises his role as Keshab Narayan Chowdhury, and actor Pushpita Mukherjee replaces

as Kadalibala Dasi.

References

External links

* {{Anik Dutta 2012 films 2012 comedy horror films Indian comedy horror films Films scored by Raja Narayan Deb Films set in country houses Bengali films remade in other languages Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films Films directed by Anik Dutta