''Jawker Dhan'' (The Treasure of Ghost) is a Bengali

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of 2017 directed by

Sayantan Ghosal Sayantan Ghosal is an Indian film director and editor in Bengali cinema. He has directed several movies, including ''Jawker Dhan'', ''Sagardwipey Jawker Dhan', and Satyanweshi Byomkesh.'' He directed ''Byomkesh Season 1-Season 3'' for the ...

. This movie was based on the adventure story of

Bimal-Kumar Bimal-Kumar are fictional characters created by Bengali novelist Hemendra Kumar Roy. These are popular figures of Bengali Children's literature. Roy wrote almost thirty Bimal-Kumar stories and novel. Some of them are science fiction. Characters ...

duos of

Hemendra Kumar Roy Hemendra Kumar Roy (2 September 1888 – 18 April 1963) was an Indian Bengali writer noted for his contribution to the early development of the genre of children's literature in the language. He was a noted contributor to the early development o ...

in the same name. In 1939, another Bengali film ''

Jakher Dhan ''Jakher Dhan'' is a Bengali adventure thriller film directed by Haricharan Bhanja based on a same name novel of Hemendra Kumar Roy. This is the first film of Bimal-Kumar series, released on 1 April 1939 under the banner of East India Film Compa ...

'' was made by director Haricharan Bhanja starring

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and

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. A sequel titled

Sagardwipey Jawker Dhan ''Sagardwipey Jawker Dhan'' is a 2019 Bengali action adventure film directed by Sayantan Ghosal and written by Sougata Basu with influence of the original story by Hemendra Kumar Roy. The film is based on the adventure story of Bimal-Kumar duo ...

was released in 2019. Addatimes streamed this on 15 April 2021 on the OTT platform.

Plot

Kumar discovers a puzzle engraved in a human skull. The skull was stored by his grandfather long ago. Unable to solve the puzzle, he consults his close friend Bimal to find out the secret behind it. Bimal is adventurous and also a professor of

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. They solve the puzzle and realise that this is nothing but a clue of a hidden Tibetan treasure which is concealed in an undisclosed spot in the dense jungles of Neora Valley. By this time, Bimal's elder brother, Hiranmoy, is kidnapped by an unknown group. Bimal and Kumar together start an adventure to recover the treasure and rescue Hiranmoy but Karali is also in a hunt for this treasure. Karali is ruthless and dares to capture the treasure at any cost.

Cast

Parambrata Chatterjee Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. He made his ...

as Bimal Sen * Rahul Banerjee as Kumar Ray *

Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the ...

as Karali Mukhopadhyay *

Priyanka Sarkar Priyanka Sarkar is an Indian film and television actress who mosty works in Bengali films. Her first successful film was ''Chirodini Tumi Je Amar'' (2008) directed by Raj Chakraborty. She was married to actor Rahul Banerjee. Filmography Te ...

as Sharmistha Bose *

Kaushik Sen Koushik Sen (born 19 September 1968) is an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in Kolkata. He is the director of the well-acclaimed theatre group Swapnasandhani. He has won the BFJA awards for best supporting actor for his perfor ...

as Hiranmoy Bose * Samidh Mukherjee as Shombhu Gomphu * Arindol Bagchi

Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 7099142 Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films 2017 films 2010s action adventure films Indian action adventure films Treasure hunt films Films based on Indian novels Films directed by Sayantan Ghosal