Underplayed Gems

Thana Theke Aschi (1965)

Thana Theke Aschi poster
Original title
থানা থেকে আসছি
Directed by
Hiren Nag
Genre
thriller, mystery, drama, crime
Country
India
Runtime
1h 43m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An inspector arrives at the home of a wealthy industrialist to investigate a woman's suicide. He questions each family member and reveals how they are all connected to her death.

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What happens

Thana Theke Aschhi (English: Coming From Police Station) is a 1965 Indian Bengali-language psychological thriller film co-written and directed by Hiren Nag. Produced by Hemen Mitra, Tapas Saha and Ratan Chakraborty under the banner of United Cine Producers, it was based on a play of the same name by Ajit Gangopadhyay, which itself was an adaptation of the English play An Inspector Calls (1945) by J. B. Priestley. The film stars Uttam Kumar, Madhabi Mukherjee and Anjana Bhowmick in the lead, while Kamal Mitra, Chhaya Debi, Dilip Mukherjee, Prashanta Kumar and Jahor Roy play another pivotal roles. It revolves around a suicide mystery of a stranger woman, to look into which Tinkari Halder, an inspector from Padmapukur police station, makes his arrival at the house of Chandra Madhab Sen, an eminent industrialist and later it gets revealed that every members of Sen's family is however connected to the victim's commitment of the suicide, including Sen himself. Thana Theke Aschhi was remade with the same name by Saran Dutta in 2010, where Sabyasachi Chakraborty portrayed Tinkari Halder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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