Chhayamoy

{{short description|2013 Bengali horror-comedy film by Haranath Chakraborty}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Chhayamoy

| image = Chhayamoy 2013 Bengali film poster.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Haranath Chakraborty

| producer =

| writer = Monotosh Chakraborty

| screenplay = Monotosh Chakraborty

| story = Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

| based_on = {{based on|Chhayamoy|Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay}}

| narrator =

| starring = Gaurav Chakrabarty
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Deepankar De

| music = Debojyoti Mishra

| cinematography = Souvik Basu

| editing = Rabiranjan Moitra

| studio = Rosevalley films

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2013|03|22|Kolkata}}

| runtime =

| country = India

| language = Bengali

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Chhayamoy or Chayamoy is a 2013 Bengali horror-comedy film directed by Haranath Chakraborty and based on Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's novel of the same title.{{cite web|title=Haranath Chakraborty back with kids' film Chhayamoy|url=http://www.indianoon.com/news/entertainment/haranath-chakraborty-back-with-kids-film-Chhayamoy-3919.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115022404/http://www.indianoon.com/news/entertainment/haranath-chakraborty-back-with-kids-film-Chhayamoy-3919.html|archive-date=15 November 2013|publisher=India Noon|accessdate=26 March 2013}}{{Cite web|date=2013-03-16|title='Chayamoy' raises social awareness: Haranath Chakraborty|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/chayamoy-raises-social-awareness-haranath-chakraborty-596988.html|access-date=2022-02-09|website=News18|language=en}} This was a children's film with supernatural elements in it. Debajyoti Mishra composed the music of the film.{{cite news|title=Tollywood's kidding around|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-18/news-interviews/31206903_1_film-gold-coins-tollywood|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411035814/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-18/news-interviews/31206903_1_film-gold-coins-tollywood|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2013|newspaper=The Times of India|accessdate=26 March 2013}}

Plot

Indrajit is a UK based scholar. While working to preserve historical documents, he finds a parchment from which he learns about treasures hidden in an old Zamindar palace in Simulgarh, a village of West Bengal. Actually Indrajit is the descendant of the zamindar's family. He comes to the village and finds out the treasure. But a corrupt moneylender Gagan Sapui accuses him of robbery, beats him up, snatches all the treasures and throws him in a nearby forest. From there, Indra is rescued by Alankar, a simple and poor boy from the village. Together they retrieve the treasure from Gagan Sapui with the help of a noble ghost Chhayamoy, who was once the minister of the Zamindar family. Eventually, the fraud and the corrupt nature of Gagan Sapui is revealed to the entire village.{{Cite web|title=Chayamoy|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/chayamoy/cid/1555499|access-date=2022-02-09|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}

Cast

  • Gaurav Chakrabarty as Indrajit{{Cite web|title=Chayamoy (2013) Cast - Actor, Actress, Director, Producer, Music Director|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/chayamoy-34021/cast-crew|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210220829/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/chayamoy-34021/cast-crew|url-status=live|archive-date=10 February 2022|access-date=2022-02-10|website=Cinestaan}}
  • Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Chhayamoy/Chandra Kumar
  • Deepankar De as Gagan Sapui
  • Paran Bandopadhyay as Gour Thakurda
  • Shantilal Mukherjee as Kali Kapalik
  • Rituparna Sengupta as dancer
  • Monu Mukherjee as Potol Ganguly
  • Nimu Bhowmik as Natabar Ghosh
  • Adhiraj Ganguly as Alankar
  • Debesh Roychowdhury as Haripada
  • Sudip Mukherjee as Lakkhan
  • Chandu Chakraborty as Raja Mahendra Pratap

See also

References