Sesh Anka

Sesh Anka
Directed byHaridas Bhattacharya
Written byShyamal Gupta (dialogues and Lyrics)
Screenplay byRajkumar Moitra
Story byRajkumar Moitra
Based onChase a Crooked Shadow a 1958 film
Produced byNarendranath Chattopadhyaya
StarringUttam Kumar
Pahari Sanyal
Sharmila Tagore
Bikash Roy
Kamal Mitra
Sabitri Chatterjee
Utpal Dutt
CinematographyKanai Dey
Edited bySantosh Ganguly
Music byPabitra Chatterjee, Sailen Roy
Production
company
Kalpana Movies Pvt Ltd
Distributed byKalpana Movies
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
131 min
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Sesh Anka (transl. The final act) is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language thriller film directed by Haridas Bhattacharya and made by Kalpana Movies, Kolkata.[1] This film was loosely inspired by the 1958 film Chase a Crooked Shadow.[2][3] The film starred Uttam Kumar in lead with Sharmila Tagore, Sabitri Chatterjee, Pahadi Sanyal, Bikash Roy, Kamal Mitra and others in supporting role. Critics stated this movie as one of the best thrillers in Bengali Cinema. The film was remade in Tamil in 1964 as Puthiya Paravai and was an inspiration for the Hindi movie Khoj (1989).[4]

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  4. ^ "Tamil cinema's bong connection". Times of India Blog. 23 April 2018. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2021.