Chiriyakhana

Chiriyakhana
Film Poster
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Written bySharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Satyajit Ray
Produced byHarendranath Bhattacharya
StarringUttam Kumar
Narrated byAjit
CinematographySoumendu Roy
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music bySatyajit Ray
Production
company
Star Productions
Distributed byBalaka Pictures
Release date
  • 29 September 1967 (1967-09-29)
Running time
125 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana (English: The Menagerie)[1] is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film, based on the story of the same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.[2] The film is directed and co-written by Satyajit Ray, starring Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi.[3] The screenplay is written by Satyajit Ray. The film was once considered Ray's worst film because of its complex plot and unfaithfulness to its source material, however the flexible acting of Uttam Kumar was praised by many critics at that time. The film was remade in Hindi as a television series Byomkesh Bakshi with Rajit Kapoor aired in Doordarshan.

  1. ^ Bhattacharya Supriya (2009). Impressions 8, 2/E. Pearson Education India. p. 1. ISBN 978-81-317-2777-5.
  2. ^ Mohit Gandhi (January 2021). Byomkesh Bakshi. Prabhat Prakashan. pp. 4–.
  3. ^ Andrew Robinson (1989). Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye. University of California Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-520-06946-6. Retrieved 16 July 2012.