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Chiriyakhana
File:Chiriakhana 1967 DVD cover.jpg
DVD cover
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Written bySharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Satyajit Ray
Produced byHarendranath Bhattacharya
StarringUttam Kumar
CinematographySoumendu Roy
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music bySatyajit Ray
Distributed byBalaka Pictures
Release date
29 September 1967
Running time
125 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana (Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা;English:The Zoo)[1] is a 1967 Bengali film by Satyajit Ray. It is a whodunit suspense thriller, starring Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi. The title means "The Zoo".[2] The screenplay is by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

Plot

The story revolves around a retired judge, Mr. Nishanath Sen, who stays at a farm house called Golap Colony (The Rose Colony) at the outskirts of Calcutta. The people who stay in the colony are a strange melee of handicaps, social outcasts and ex-convicts. One day the judge is murdered under mysterious circumstances. The local police assign Byomkesh to the investigation. As a close acquaintance of Sen, Byomkesh is more than willing to solve the murder mystery. Through many twists and turns in the story, he goes on to solve the mystery.

References

  1. ^ Bhattacharya Supriya (1 September 2009). Impressions 8, 2/E. Pearson Education India. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-81-317-2777-5. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  2. ^ Andrew Robinson (1989). Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye. University of California Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-520-06946-6. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

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