Khoj (2017 film)

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Khoj
Directed by Arka Ganguly
Written byArka Ganguly
Produced byShaibal Banerjee
Starring Vikram Chatterjee
Shataf Figar
Susmita Dey
Poonam Gurung
Edited bySubhajit Singha
Music by Raja Narayan Deb
Production
company
Release date
  • 2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)
Running time
116 minutes
LanguageBengali

Khoj is a Bengali psychological thriller film directed by Arka Ganguly. [1] This film was released on 2 June 2017 in the banner of Magic Moments Motion Pictures. [2] Khoj has won total 9 international awards at Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Studio city international film festival, Idyll wild international festival of cinema etc. [3] [ better source needed ]

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Plot

Police inspector Sayan Bose of a hilly town, Rimtik, is assigned to investigate a mysterious incident. A lady repeatedly screams from a house. This is Dr. Prashant Chowdhury's house who does not allow anyone into the house and says that it is nothing but his wife screaming due to injection pain and that is normal. Sayan becomes more suspicious when the neighbors tell that they have often heard the screams but never seen the doctor's wife. The next day, the doctor comes to the police station to file a missing diary of his wife, Jonaki. Sayan realizes that there is something fishy going on since the doctor behaves strangely with the police and refuses to provide anything helpful except a passport-size photo of his wife. Things turn even more complicated when the doctor attempts suicide after having a fall out with Sayan. Finally, Sayan's investigations uncover a truth which had been hidden for eight months.

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