Dhumketu

Dhumketu (2025)

ধূমকেতু

Megh is a married person, who works as manager of a tea estate in North Sikkim. In a certain crisis he became jobless and struggles to make ends problems of his life because there are not many options for livelihood around in the hills. He fights to bring back joy into his family's life.

Date of release
2025-08-14
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 11m
Genres
Drama, Family, Romance
Director
Kaushik Ganguly

Casting

Interesting facts

Dhumketu is a 2025 Indian Bengali-language romantic thriller film written and directed by Kaushik Ganguly. Produced by Rana Sarkar and Dev under the banners of Dag Creative Media and Dev Entertainment Ventures respectively, this film stars Dev himself alongside Subhashree Ganguly in lead roles, with Chiranjeet Chakraborty and Rudranil Ghosh assuming supporting roles and Parambrata Chatterjee in a special appearance. This movie follows Bhanu, a man long thought dead, who returns to his hometown on the eve of a suicide mission.

Production

When Dev had done a cameo in Kaushik Ganguly's directorial Jackpot (2009), both of them showed their interests to work with each other later. Ganguly needed a film with scope for Dev's stardom but would remain Ganguly's film. He wanted something Dev could not refuse.

Ganguly revealed the concept of the film to be based on his own telefilm Ulka (2001), which was under the production of ETV Bangla. He wanted to present a realistic Dev, which he saw in Dui Prithibi (2010) and Buno Haansh (2014), without his style elements and larger-than-life image. According to him, the two months long kidnapping of K. Doraiswamy, an executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, inspired Ganguly to make the telefilm.

Ganguly had met Dev ten months prior to the announcement and narrated a one-liner, which the latter requested to develop. After completing the development in early-February 2015, Ganguly met Dev again later that month and narrated the subject. Ganguly himself wrote the film's script dialogues.

The same month, Soumik Halder was announced as cinematographer, in his third collaboration with Ganguly after working on Khaad (2014) and Chotoder Chobi (2014). Indraadip Dasgupta was confirmed to compose the background score, in his third consecutive film with the director after Apur Panchali (2013), Khaad and Chotoder Chobi. Judo Ramu and Rocky Rajesh were hired to design some action sequences in the film.

Dev played two distinct roles in the film: the 80-year-old Bhanu Singha, and the 30-year-old version of him. He reportedly gained 30 kg and weighed 98 kg to play the older role, and then lost the weight to play the younger one. Dev also was asked to sport a clean-shaven look like a part of his role.

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