''Checkmate'' was an Indian Bengali television thriller series which aired on

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from 21 January 2012 to 15 June 2012.

Plot

The show was basically a thriller, where the main protagonist was detective Mrinalini Dastidar (played by

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). She along with her associates used to solve the mysteries.

Cast

* Saurabh Chatterjee as Amolendu Dostidar *

as Detective Mrinalini Dostidar *

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as Aditya Sen * Suchismita Chowdhury as Aporna * Rupa Bhattacharya as ACP Sreeja Sen *

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as ACP Sreeja Sen *

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as Esha * Indrani Basu as Mira * Kaushik Bhattacharya as Hirok * Somjita Bhattacharya as Madhuja's Friend * Jayanta Dutta Burman as Derek * Anindya Chakraborty as Kaushik Mukherjee *

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as Anjalimashi *

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as Rohit (Goenda Keutey) * Swaralipi Chatterjee as Ritu *

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as OC Dutta * Gautam Dey as Adheer Sinha * Kaushik Ghosh as Amit Lahiri * Rajesh Kr Chattopadhyay as Sanjoy *

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as Sanjoy's Mother * Jagannath as Amitabha Choudhury *

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as Avantika (2 episodes, 2012) *

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as Julia Aunty * Samrat Mukherjee as Barun Sen * Sudip Mukherjee as Neel Roy Burman * Pushpita Mukhopadhyay as Protima * Saptarshi Ray as Akash * Sayantani Sengupta as Anita * Soumyo as Joy * Zoyeb as Imon * Aparna as Ela * Arindoi Bagchi as Jahor * Diganta Bagchi as Partho * Anindya Banerjee as Aniruddho Ghosh (Public Prosecutor) * Joyjit Banerjee as Shyam *

Kamalika Banerjee Kamalika Banerjee or Kamalika Bandyopadhyay is a Bengali film and television actress. Works Films Television * ''Checkmate'' as Dr. Banalata Sen * ''Ekhane Aakash Neel'' as Basabdatta * ''Behula on Star Jalsha'' as Sumitra Behula's mot ...

as Dr. Bonolota Dutta * Runa Banerjee as Lalita Sen * Suman Bannerjee as bhoy * Arghya Basu as Anirban * Damini Basu as Shiuli * Tulika Basu as Kasturi Samonto * Dipanjan Bhattacharya as Sumit Sanyal * Joy Bhattacharyya as Bibek * Titas Bhowmik as Rojoni * Riju Biswas as Suresh Bagh * Abhrajit Chakraborty as Shekhar Dasgupta * Arun Chakraborty as Mike * Bobby Chakraborty as Ranodeb Burman * Kaushik Chakraborty as Gautam *

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as Aniruddho Bose * Subhadra Chakraborty as Madhobi * Aditi Chatterjee as Shompa Dasgupta *

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as Promit Guha * Debjani Chattopadhyay as Dolon * Mita Chatterjee as Shushiladebi * Shubhomoy Chatterjee as Manohor *

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as Ilina Chakraborty * Dwaipayan Das as Arpan Dutta *

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as Gouri * Debjani Deb as Jonaki * Pradip Dhar as Prottoy Biswas a.k.a. Potka *

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as Advocate Ahona Ghosh * Joymala Ganguly as Nondini Sen *

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as Akhil * Nandini Ghosal as Mrs. Sanyal *

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as Ananya * Kaushik Ghosh as Amit Lahiri * Pallavi Gogoi as Marathon Organizer * Rupsha Guha as Urmi *

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as Supti Roy Burman * Dipanwita Hazari as Dr. Debika Sanyal * Anindita Saha Kapileswari as Sharmila * Tania Kar as Meghna * Kalyani Mandal as Mrs. Bonik * Baisakhi Marjit as Pishimoni * Rana Mitra as Raju Das *

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as Mohini * Arpita Mukherjee as Kaushik Mukherjee's wife *

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as Dip Ganguly * Neel Mukherjee as Sukanto Choudhury * Sarbari Mukherjee as Pamela * Swagata Mukherjee as Mrs. Bagchi * Piyali Munshi as Indira * Neel as Anchor Chonchol * Komal Nishad Mitra as Ayesha * Manoj Ojha as Shumanto * Priyam as Indra * Milon Roychoudhury as Broto * Shagnik as Rupesh * Shayanton as Pollob *

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as Mallar * Lopamudra Sinha as Rupa *

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as Nondona

Crew

Direction

*Biswajit Ganguly *Ravindra Geetha Nambiar *Ratnodeep Ghosh *Mandira Mitra *Anindya Sarkar *Romit Ojha

Creative Direction

* Mandira Mitra *Mitali Bhattacharya

Script

*Moushumi Choudhury *Sharmila Mukherjee *Koli Mitra *Shayon Choudhury *Romit Ojha *Saurabh Sengupta *Angikar Choudhury *Kunal Sengupta

Cinematography

*Rupanjan Pal *Kiranmoy Bhuniya

Editing

* Debashish Bhattacharya * Niladri Dutta

Art Direction

* Narendra Ojha

Sound Management

* Ranjan Pandey

Music Department

*Gaurab Chatterjee ... background score / title music composed *Jina ... title music: sung *

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... title music: sung *Chandan Raychowdhury ... musical director / title music composed *Indra Roy ... background score *

Srijato Srijato Bandopadhyay is an Indian poet of the Bengali language. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book ''Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers''. In 2014, he won the Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyricist for the song 'Balir Shoho ...

... title music composed

References

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External links

Website
2012 Indian television series debuts 2012 Indian television series endings Star Jalsha original programming Bengali-language television programming in India