''Jio Pagla'' (

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: জিও পাগলা ''Jiō Pāglā'') is a 2017 Indian

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directed by

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'' (2009).

Plot

Ananta, Sujoy, Ananda and Rajasaunkar Dhol who were very close friends from childhood. Ananta, a fashion photographer lived in a rented house, which is owned by Khagen Mal. His three friends lived at their native place. Ananda has to come to Kolkata and live with Ananta for his job at Kolkata. After that, Sujoy came to Kolkata for interview for the Dance Paglu Dance and Rajsaunkar came to Kolkata being chased from his work in theaters. In a dramatic turn of events, all the friends are forced to live together at Ananta's rented home. One day Khogen catches them red-handed doing mischief with his third wife, Tola Boudi and forces them to vacate the house. After a lot of searching they found a home where they could at least live but they needed family. So they decided that Sujoy and Dhol have to pretend to be Ananda's and Ananta's wife. Gradually they everyone got their girlfriends, found their girlfriends having relation to the members of the same house and by some turn of events they all got to know everything. But Nepal Khan, the leader Nepal Khan bn Complex, associating with Khagen Mal, kidnapped them and threatened the family members to sign, for that he could complete his building project. The team of four friends reached there and fought with them and while fighting all makeups were removed and the family members also got to know about it. After all of the winning, they apologized to them and the family happily forgived them and appreciated them.

Cast

Jisshu Sengupta Jisshu Ujjwal Sengupta (born 15 March 1977) is an Indian actor, producer, television presenter. who predominantly works in Bengali, Hindi and Telugu films. Sengupta made his debut through a Bengali TV series, '' Mahaprabhu'' where he portray ...

as Ananta *

Soham Chakraborty Soham Chakraborty (born 4 March 1984), is an Indian actor, producer, television personality and politician. He has appeared in more than 100 Bengali films, as child artist (Master Bittu) and as male lead. He earned numerous accolades, including ...

as Rajshankar Dhol aka Gouri *

Hiran Chatterjee Hiran Chatterjee is a Tollywood film actor and a Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kharagpur Sadar. He has been working with the non-governmental organisation, Voice of World, which provides aid to visually and physically challe ...

as Ananda * Bonny Sengupta as Sujoy aka Sumona *

Srabanti Chatterjee Srabanti Chatterjee is an Indian actress, former journalist at ABP News and anchor who appears in Bengali language films. Srabanti primarily works in cinema of West Bengal, based in Kolkata. Political career Chatterjee joined Bharatiya Janata ...

as Priya *

Payel Sarkar Payel Sarkar (born 10 February 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bengali films and Hindi television. On 25 February 2021, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Political career Sarkar joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2021 and ...

as Nandita aka Nodi *

Rittika Sen Rittika Sen is an Indian actress who appears in Bengali films. She was featured in the ''Calcutta Times'' list of ''Most Desirable Women 2015''. Career Rittika Sen kicked off the journey in the showbiz industry in 2012 with the movie '' 100% ...

as Sashikala *

Koushani Mukherjee Koushani Mukherjee is an Indian actress-turned to politician. She mainly appears in Bengali films. She debuted in the movie ''Parbona Ami Chartey Tokey'' in 2015, with Bonny Sengupta, directed by Raj Chakraborty. Career In 2015, Mukherjee wo ...

as Monalisa * Supriyo Dutta as Khagen Mal, owner of the house *

Ambarish Bhattacharya Ambarish Bhattacharya (born 13 March 1979) is a Bengali actor and comedian. He started his career through performing at Bengali theatre and stage. He made his television debut in the 2007 playing the character ''Gaja'' in Raja & Gaja. He has ac ...

as Nepal Khal * Anuradha Roy as Landlord *

Biswajit Chakraborty Biswajit Chakraborty, (born 29 October 1948) is an Indian film actor who appears predominantly in Bengali movies. He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. His debut movie was '' Sunya Theke Suru'' directed by Ashoke Viswanathan. He has acted in more ...

as Landlord *

Kanchan Mallick Kanchan Mullick is an Indian Bengali film and television actor and politician. In addition to the television show ''Janata Express'', Kanchan has also acted in movies like ''Mahakaal'' and ''Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona''. He is also a Bengali theatr ...

as Sashikala's uncle *Sharmila Das as Shasikala's Aunt *Barna Raha *

Rimjhim Mitra Rimjhim Mitra is a Bengali television and film actress. In 2010, she participated in a Bengali dance reality show. In 2013, she was the winner of season one of ''Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Bangla'', shown on ETV Bangla. She joined the Bharatiya Janata ...

as Judge * Rabi Kinnagi as Judge *Masud Rana as Judge

Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jio Pagla Bengali-language Indian films 2010s Bengali-language films Bengali remakes of Hindi films Bengali remakes of Marathi films Cross-dressing in Indian films Films scored by Jeet Ganguly