Kiriti Roy (2016 film)

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Kiriti Roy
Directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay
Produced by Ashok Dhanuka
Starring Chiranjeet Chakraborty
Locket Chatterjee
Swastika Mukherjee
Saayoni Ghosh
Release date
  • 30 December 2016 (2016-12-30)
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Kiriti Roy is a Bengali thriller drama film directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay [1] and produced by Ashok Dhanuka. [2] This film was released on 30 December 2016 in the banner of Eskay Movies. It is based on Nihar Ranjan Gupta's Kiriti Roy series, Setarer Sur. [3] [4]

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Plot

The film revolves around a story of love, jealousy and murder mystery. While walking in a street of Kolkata, Detective Kiriti Roy and his assistant Subrata save Sunil, who was administered a lethal dose of morphine. Kiriti thinks that there is a link between this incident and the very recent murder case of Basabi. Basabi was a beautiful young woman who was about to marry Brajesh but, before the wedding, she was found dead. Kiriti suspects Brajesh along with his four friends, including Sunil.

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