Pokkhirajer Dim (2025)

Original title

পক্ষীরাজের ডিম

Directed by

Soukarya Ghosal

Genre

science fantasy

Country

India

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

U

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An eccentric mathematics teacher and a struggling student team up to deal with a supernatural relic that can read minds. The story blends local folklore with scientific ideas in a fictional village.

whimsicalquirkylightheartedinventivecomedicfolklore-infusedchattyplayful

What happens

Pokkhirajer Dim (Bengali: পক্ষীরাজের ডিম, lit. 'The Celestial Egg') is a 2025 Indian Bengali-language science-fantasy comedy film directed by Soukarya Ghosal and produced by Jio Studios and SVF Entertainment. Serving as a thematic sequel to Ghosal's 2018 film Rainbow Jelly, it stars Anirban Bhattacharya as Batabyal, an eccentric mathematics teacher, alongside Mahabrata Basu as Ghoton, a struggling student determined to master mathematics, and Anumegha Banerjee reprising her role as Poppins, the only friend Ghoton has in life and Alexx O'Nell portrays the antagonist, British archaeologist Mr. Villain. Set in the fictional village of Akashgunj, the narrative blends Bengali folklore with science fiction elements, theoretically based on Einstein’s famous general theory of relativity, which shows light doesn’t travel in a straight line in space. The story centres around a supernatural relic that can read minds. Principal photography of the film occurred from September 2023 to late November 2023 in West Bengal & Simulta, Bihar. The film was theatrically released on 13 June 2025. The film was an official selection for Indian Panorama at the 56th International Film Festival of India in Goa 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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