A Satyajit Ray film from Srijit Mukherji heads a lineup of more than 25 series, films and TV titles that Bengali streamer Hoichoi has set for its 10th year. The slate also brings new cases for detectives Feluda and Eken Babu and the platform’s first animated series. In “Maharaja Tomare Selam,” Ray agrees to his son’s request to make a children’s film.
He then battles money trouble, resistance from the industry and the pressure of his own reputation on the road to what would become a classic of Indian cinema, “Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne.” Jeetu Kamal, Ritwik Bhowmik, Rudranil Ghosh, Sairity Banerjee, Shatakshy Nandy and Arijit Dutta star. The Hoichoi Studio film lineup also includes “The Eken: Kerala-e Kurukshetra,” directed by Joydeep Mukherjee. In it, a botched secret mission drags Eken Babu into a mystery in Kerala.
Anirban Chakrabarti, Ritwick Chakraborty, Raima Sen, Somak Ghosh, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Arna Mukhopadhyay, Subrat Dutta and Kamaleswar Mukherjee make up the cast. Parambrata Chatterjee directs and appears in “Jononi,” about a college professor who goes looking for her housekeeper’s missing teenage daughter and finds secrets closer to home. Koel Mallick, Koneenica Banerjee and Joy Sengupta also star.
Debaloy Bhattacharya’s “Bhugun,” starring Abhishek Banerjee and Parno Mittra, follows a wealthy Bengali family whose deal with a tantric to restore its fortune brings down a deadly curse. On the series side, Kamaleswar Mukherjee directs “Feludar Goyendagiri: Baksho Rawhoshyo,” in which Feluda chases the secret of a box swapped during a train journey. Tota Roy Choudhury, Kalpan Mitra and Subhadip Chakrabarti star.
Other returning franchises include “Birangana 2,” “Kuheli 2,” “Thakumar Jhuli 2,” “Tansener Tanpura: Mohonbashi” with Vikram Chatterjee, and “Choddobeshi 2,” created by and starring Parambrata Chatterjee. He also directs “Agambagish: Drolmar Khorgo,” starring Saswata Chatterjee. In it, the tantric saint Krishnananda Agambagish takes on a band of ghostly dacoits in 17th-century Bengal.
New series include Pratim D. Gupta’s “Chaalchitro: The Ekchala Murders,” about a serial killer who leaves female victims posed as goddesses in the run-up to Durga Puja. It stars Tota Roy Choudhury, Anirban Chakrabarti, Chanchal Chowdhury and Sweta Mishra.
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