August 2016 will be the Month of Thrillers in Bengali Cinema

It's very rare that three big Bengali releases coming in one month that too without any festive season, but this rare scenario is going to happen in August 2016. 

There are three back to back big releases this August and surprisingly all three are thrillers. So it won't be wrong to name this as the Month of Thrillers.

On the Independence long weekend that is on 12th August two movies will be released on same day.
The first one will be #Hemanta directed by Anjan Dutta. This is one long cherished dream of

Anjan Dutta to adapt Shakespeare's revenge drama Hamlet. Last year Aparna Sen too had tried her hands to remake a Shakespeare play with #Arshinagar but it failed badly. Unlike Aparna Sen, Anjan Dutta has adapted his story in a contemporary setup in today's Kolkata. Here Hamlet has been changed to Hemanta , played by Parambrata Chatterjee. He is on a mission to find the murderers of his father with his friend Hirak, a character inspired from Horatio from the original play. This character has been played by Jishu Sengupta. Then there is Hemanta love interest Olipriya inspired from Ophelia which has been played by Payel Sarkar. The two most complex and grey characters of the play Claudius and Gertrude has been named as Kalyan and Gayatri and has been played by very talented Shaswata Chatterjee and Gargee Roychoudhuty. The trailer has already launched and generated positive feedback. A thriller, a Shakespeare's tragedy, a wonderful ensemble cast and a director who has earlier directed thrillers very smoothly what more we need from a film. It looks like a winner already. Let's hope for the best.

Hemanta Trailer

The other release on 12^th August will be Shree Venkatesh Films' production #GoyendaShaborEaglerChokh. Last year director Arindam Sil had surprised everyone with his slick stylish thriller #EbarShabor, this time he is back with the second instalment of Shabor Series. Once again it will be based on a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay story, set in today's Kolkata. It will be a murder mystery where there are too many female characters in the suspicious list. Shaswata Chatterjee will be back as detective Shabor Dashgupta and this time in his investigation, he will be joined a young Police officer played Gaurav Chakraborty. Among the others it will be theater actor Anirban Bhattacharya along with Jaya Ahsaan, Payel Sarkar, Ushahi, June Malya. Once again it will be a tale of love , lust , doubt , betrayal and of course suspense .The first part of Shabor Series was a big hit and we can expect the same form this one too.

Eagler Chokh Trailer

After two weeks on 26th August, there will be yet another thriller at your nearest theaters, it

will be #SahebBibiGolaam. Since the first teaser has been released there is enough curiosity

for the film. The bold and edgy thriller has grabbed eyeballs not in Bengal rather it has received positive feedback from many celebrities from Bollywood too. It has been directed by critic turned filmmaker Pratim D Gupta. Although his directorial debut was almost unnoticed but this time he is back with full energy and a wonderful cast which consists names like Anjan Dutta, Swastika Mujherjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, Parno Mitra. It will be interesting to see what happens when a contact killer, a bore housewife and a taxi driver's lives get interconnected with each other in a surprising twist. The music has been composed by Anupam Roy and the songs are very melodious. This movie has to struggle a lot with censor board for its bold contents which had delayed its release date, hope all this wait will be fruitful for this film and audience will give it a good response.

 Saheb Bibi Golaam Trailer