Paran Banerjee

Acting

Paran Banerjee

Born

1940-10-18 (86)

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Paran Banerjee (alternate spelling Paran Bandyopadhyay) (born October 18, 1940) is an Indian film, stage and screen actor based in Kolkata. He gained popularity with his works with notable Bengali film director Sandip Ray, the son of notable filmmaker and author Satyajit Ray.

Known for

Boyei Gelo poster
NR

Set in the modern day Kolkata, tells the tale of two middle class neighboring families who are engaged in a mindless bickering as a part of traditional rivalry.

Boyei Gelo

2013

The Japanese Wife poster
6.6

Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya, comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife.

The Japanese Wife

2010

Abar Proloy poster
7.0

Crime Branch officer Animesh Datta is on a mission to catch the mastermind of a girl child trafficking racket in the Sunderbans. Will he be able to track down the culprit before more young girls disappear?

Abar Proloy

2023

Byomkesh poster
NR

Byomkesh was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Byomkesh

2014

Bombaiyer Bombete poster
7.4

Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu − a sidekick of Feluda − gets invited to Mumbai (previously Bombay) to watch the shooting of a film based on a novel written by him. Once in Mumbai, he, along with Feluda and Topshe gets embroiled with underworld kingpins. He seems to have transported the Nana Sahib's necklace. But fortunately because of Feluda the real thief is caught and convicted. Although the original story was written in the 1970s, the movie is set in more recent times and depict the real problem of underworld involvement in Bollywood.

Bombaiyer Bombete

2003

Neel Seemana poster
NR

Neel Seemana is a story about five ladies and their family. The name of this TV serial itself includes trhe prior pase of each of the lady's names.

Neel Seemana

2004

Film credits

2020s · 20 titles

Bob Biswas poster
6.5

Bob Biswas, a hitman-for-hire, comes out of a prolonged coma and struggles to recall his identity but suffers a moral dilemma when the memories of his past resurface.

Bob Biswas

2021

Maya Satya Bhram poster
NR

Two disappearances unsettle Kolkata’s Prafullanagar: Totoro, the young son of Sub-Inspector Sanjay Konar, and Sara Nilson, a Swedish researcher studying shamans. Their fates intertwine around one enigmatic man, Trilokdarshi Baba. Once known as Tilu, a boy haunted by violence and visions of death, Trilok grows into a mystic who seems to perceive the boundaries between the living and the beyond. As Sanjay’s search unfolds, the line between truth and faith begins to dissolve.

Maya Satya Bhram

2026

Projapati 2 poster
4.0

Joy lives in London with his daughter. He wants his parents to stay with them in London, but his father, who runs a hotel in Kolkata, refuses to go to London.

Projapati 2

2025

Tonic poster
7.3

75 years Jaladhar Sen and spouse Umarani plan for a foreign trip and come across Rhea and Tonic, the travel agents. The story shows how Tonic takes the couple to Darjeeling instead and becomes the best medicine.

Tonic

2021

Kishmish poster
5.5

Krishanu ‘Tintin’ Chatterjee (Dev), an aspiring graphic novelist, meets Rohini Sen (Rukmini Maitra), a rich, progressive girl, at a college in the hills and the duo fall in love. They are all set to get married when their parents’ past returns to mess things up.

Kishmish

2022

Madam Sengupta poster
6.0

A famed cartoonist's search for her daughter's killer unravels a sinister trail of poetic murders, leading back to her estranged ex-husband, whose forbidden play threatens to expose Kolkata's darkest secrets.

Madam Sengupta

2025

Tekka poster
5.3

Tekka is the story of Iqlakh, a janitor who has lost his job and is out to get it back by holding a schoolgirl hostage in a building. ACP Maya comes in, a woman who is trying to conceive. Add to the mix a young journalist pair, Brishti and Tintin, and we have a sentimental thriller in an office building spanning 48 hours, full of melodrama.

Tekka

2024

Dilkhush poster
4.7

Dilkhush follows the story of eight individuals who find themselves in the loop of urban melancholy. Discovering love with the help of AI makes their ordinary lives extraordinary.

Dilkhush

2023

Cholo Potol Tuli poster
NR

The film inspired by a popular Bengali stage play, based on eponymous story of Shibram Chakraborty, Ashwathama Hato Iti.

Cholo Potol Tuli

2020

Haluaman poster
NR

Upcoming Movie by Abhimanyu Mukherjee & Team

Haluaman

2022

Pradhan poster
5.0

Deepak Pradhan, a young police officer, gets transferred to North Bengal where his junior officers are involved in corrupt practices. When disturbing events from the past start to surface and the pressure builds, will Deepak be able to hold on to his principles to save his integrity and loved ones?

Pradhan

2023

Borunbabur Bondhu poster
7.0

Borun Chakraborty, a grumpy old man, leads a lonely life with his bedridden wife and an emotionally distant family. Things take a turn for the unexpected after the country's president gets in touch with him.

Borunbabur Bondhu

2020

Tiki Taka poster
5.0

Tiki-Taka is a ZEE5 Original sports comedy movie starring Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Emona Enabulu, and Ritabhari Chakraborty. The movie revolves around Khelechi, an African national, who comes to India with a football laden with narcotics to deliver it to P.K, who runs a drug cartel. However, in a comedy of errors P.K's men pick up the wrong guy, and Khelechi ends up with Raju, a con man.

Tiki Taka

2020

Beline poster
6.0

An old, single man leads a retired and lonely life but enjoys it as much as possible. Everything changes when he receives a wrong number phone call, creating a window into the lives of a girl and her live-in partner.

Beline

2024

Shri Swapankumar-er Badami Hyena'r Kobole poster
5.0

Kolkata is in danger as Badami Hyena, an evil force, looms threat over the city. Dipak Chatterjee, the long-forgotten detective created by pulp-fiction writer Samarendranath Pandey, better known by his pen name Shri Swapankumar, comes out of his web of hurt pride to save the City of Joy. But Shri Swapankumar soon charts a crazy narrative that complicates Dipak's fate! Can the madcap detective save his city and himself?

Shri Swapankumar-er Badami Hyena'r Kobole

2024

Debris of Desire poster
7.0

A petty criminal, who loves a whore and wants to run away with her savings, meets a laid-off factory worker who is desperate to stop his wife from working as a housemaid.

Debris of Desire

2023

Ektu Sore Boshun poster
NR

It follows the journey of Guddu who is a Sanskrit graduate from the small town of Begunbagicha, and literally wastes his time roaming around, being jobless and aimless in life. His friends are just like him. While Guddu’s parents are a bit eccentric, his only shining light in life is his childhood love Piu. The plot revolves around Guddu and he’s surrounded by many oddball characters. Guddu finally comes to Kolkata for a job opportunity and interestingly his love interest follows him as well.

Ektu Sore Boshun

2023

Kirtaner Por Kirtan poster
NR

Abinash, his son Arup, and daughter-in-law Monimala continue their constant bickering even after shifting to a new flat, with Arup endlessly stuck between them. When circumstances force them to find another home, Abinash revisits their old house only to discover a tenant now lives there. What follows is a chain of hilarious misunderstandings and escalating family drama, leaving their future up in the air.

Kirtaner Por Kirtan

2026

Aparajito poster
8.3

A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.

Aparajito

2022

Angshuman MBA poster
4.0

Friends often mock ‘Angshuman’ about the family business. So he will do something new with a master’s degree in commerce. He also started a break-up company accordingly! This organization helps to end the long-running conflict between boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife. That is, it causes separation!

Angshuman MBA

2023

2010s · 33 titles

The Japanese Wife poster
6.6

Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya, comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife.

The Japanese Wife

2010

The Ghosts of the Future poster
4.0

A group of ghosts are rendered homeless as all the old haunted buildings in Kolkata have been converted into multi-storied buildings, malls and multiplexes. Some of them, from varied social-economic background, take shelter in an abandoned, dilapidated single-screen theatre, planning to make themselves relevant and fit for the future as contemporary ghosts.

The Ghosts of the Future

2019

Basu Paribaar poster
6.0

As an elderly couple prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary, their family begins to gather at their once magnificent mansion. Relatives, both young and old, reminisce about the family's history, bringing long-buried secrets to the surface.

Basu Paribaar

2019

Royal Bengal Rahasya poster
7.1

Feluda and his gang gets invited to North Bengal by a wealthy Zamindar to solve a piece of a puzzle supposedly leading to buried "treasure", but things take a turn for the unexpected with a mysterious death and rumors about a man-eating tiger in the jungles.

Royal Bengal Rahasya

2011

Ahaa Re poster
6.8

Farhaz, a top chef from Bangladesh, and Basundhara, a middle-class Indian woman who runs a home catering service, come together as they share a common passion—food.

Ahaa Re

2019

Arshinagar poster
3.9

Arshinagar is a Bengali musical romance drama film directed by Aparna Sen. The screenplay is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Arshinagar

2015

Ka Kha Ga Gha poster
4.5

Ka Kha Ga Gha will see a power packed family entertainment, comedy and a deep message through a ballot of multi-casts.

Ka Kha Ga Gha

2018

Adbhoot poster
NR

It’s a story of a once-wealthy joint family staying in a 200-year-old decrepit house full of ghosts. Four brothers live with their family. They are the grandsons of late Raybahadur Dhumrokolap (Soumitra), whose ghost stays there in the house along with his dead khansama and aunt. Like all the old houses, there’s also a hidden treasure and a clue which leads to it. The family desperately searches for the treasure, finding which will ensure the end of their falling conditions and save the house from a ruthless promoter (Shankar Chakraborty).

Adbhoot

2013

The Jewellery Box poster
6.9

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women & their changing position in society,seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next. A film by Aparna Sen.

The Jewellery Box

2013

Ashchorjyo Prodeep poster
6.6

The everyday life of a middle-class man changes when he finds a magic lamp containing a genie, who helps him achieve all the luxuries of life.

Ashchorjyo Prodeep

2013

Double Feluda poster
8.0

The movie consists of two Feluda stories by Satyajit Ray, Samaddar-er-Chabi and Golokdham Rahashya, shown on either half of the film. It was a tribute to the 50-year anniversary of Feluda and a sequel to Royal Bengal Rahashya (2011).

Double Feluda

2016

Double Feluda poster
8.0

The movie consists of two Feluda stories by Satyajit Ray, Samaddar-er-Chabi and Golokdham Rahashya, shown on either half of the film. It was a tribute to the 50-year anniversary of Feluda and a sequel to Royal Bengal Rahashya (2011).

Double Feluda

2016

Abby Sen poster
6.3

Abby Sen a struggling TV producer time travels to 1980 to find a job in a leading TV channel.

Abby Sen

2015

Posto poster
7.4

This film to be a family drama based on the theme of parenting. The film revolves around the upbringing of a young boy by his grandparents and his working parents and also deals with the legal fight over parenting as the plot unfolds. His grandpa wins.

Posto

2017

Bobbyr Bondhura poster
NR

Little Bobby goes missing after the separation of his parents who decide to talk to his friends to find out where he might be. But who are Bobby's friends?

Bobbyr Bondhura

2019

Bhooter Bhabishyat poster
7.9

A young director listens to a hilariously scary story narrated by a stranger, where a group of ghosts try to save the only place they can haunt in peace.

Bhooter Bhabishyat

2012

Bancha Elo Phire poster
NR

When Bancharam suddenly dies, his spirit visits zamindar Narahari Dutta to ask for his help and stop builders from taking over his land.

Bancha Elo Phire

2016

Obhishopto Nighty poster
4.1

The story of the film revolves around a cursed nightie which changes hands in a logical manner, not magically. The original owner of the nightie had experienced unfulfilled love, which ultimately led to a curse on it. A wannabe actress comes to Kolkata from a village in pursue of her career. She can cross all limits in order to become successful. She uses that nightie for seducing producers and she doesn't regret in what she is doing. The events that take place later form the climax of the story.

Obhishopto Nighty

2014

Half Serious poster
NR

A fun movie with a social outlook. Directed by Utsav Mukherjee Cast- Roopa Ganguly, Silajit, Saheb Bhattacharya, Mumtaz Sorcar, Ridhima Ghosh, Sudipta Chakraborty, Paran Banerjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Shankar Chakraborty, Biswajit Chakraborty.

Half Serious

2013

Abar Basanta Bilap poster
NR

The life of Anadi, a dedicated employee of a publishing house, changes after a woman working in his office expresses interest in him.

Abar Basanta Bilap

2018

Bolo Dugga Maiki poster
5.7

Bolo Dugga Maiki is an entertaining movie about Samya who always leads his life as a liar. However, when he meets a gorgeous girl in a train, Uma, his life changes in the blessings of Ma Durga.

Bolo Dugga Maiki

2017

Chaar poster
7.0

Chaar is a Bengali anthology film based on four short stories by different writers: "Bateswarer Abodan" by Parasuram, "Porikkha" by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, "Kagtarua" by Satyajit Ray and "Dui Bondhu" by Satyajit Ray.

Chaar

2014

Gosain Baganer Bhoot poster
NR

A young boy meets a friendly ghost and the impossible became a reality. Based on a story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay.

Gosain Baganer Bhoot

2011

Hothat Ekdin poster
NR

Hothat Ekdin is a Bengali movie released on 24 February, 2017. The movie is directed by Raaj Mukherjee and featured Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury and Biswanath Basu as lead characters. Other popular actors who were roped in for Hothat Ekdin are Paran Bandopadhyay and Locket Chatterjee

Hothat Ekdin

2017

Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy poster
6.7

Sandip Ray's next where 4 ghost stories are spun together in a comical twist surrounding unusual events.The film is a collection of four short films based on four Bengali short stories- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's - Bhut Bhabishyat, Satyajit Ray's- Brown Saheber Bari, Anath Babur Bhoy and Lucknow-er Duel.

Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy

2012

Proloy poster
6.9

The story revolves around a brave heart Barun Biswas, who raised voice against numerous gang rapes in a village called Dukhiya. Dukhiya, where gang rapes had become a festival. These were celebrated by some political criminals.

Proloy

2013

Monchora poster
7.0

A thief falls in love.

Monchora

2016

Handa and Bhonda poster
5.0

Handa and Bhonda both hate their life and they are looking for a miracle to happen.

Handa and Bhonda

2010

Open Tee Bioscope poster
7.3

A rusticated boy in his adolescence comes to stay with his mother in North Kolkata and encounters some new experiences during his stay. The time-line of the story is in the 90's typical Northern part of Kolkata.

Open Tee Bioscope

2015

Chayamoy poster
NR

Indrajit is a UK based scholar. While working to preserve historical documents he find a parchment from which he learns about treasures hidden in an old palace in Simulgarh, a village of West Bengal. Indrajit comes to the village, finds out the treasure, but, a local goon Gagan Sapui accuses him of robbery, beats him up and expels him out of the village. Sapui wants to melt those coins to make new jewellery. After being beaten up, Indrajit goes to forest near the village where he meets Chhayamoy, a benevolent ghost. After listening the incidence from Indrajit, Chhayamoy decides to teach him a lesson.

Chayamoy

2013

Cinemawala poster
7.2

An old film exhibitor struggles to keep his cinema from being demolished. Meanwhile, his relationship with his immoral son deteriorates.

Cinemawala

2016

Badshahi Angti poster
7.5

Feluda and his cousin Topshe goes to Lucknow with Topshe's father to spend the Puja vacation. They arrived at the house of Dhirendra Kumar Sanyal, a friend of Topshe's father. That evening Dr. Shrivastav also came to Dhirendra Kumar Sanyal and tells him about last night, a thief tried to steal his 'Ring of Aurangzeb' (The Emperor's Ring) which was given to him by Pyarilaal Seth. After the incident Dr. Shrivastav has been afraid and asks Dhirendra Kumar Sanyal to keep the ring safe. Dhirendra Kumar Sanyal agreed and keeps the ring to his home. But someday the ring goes missing from there. Then Feluda and Topshe started investigation for the culprit. Meanwhile, Feluda meets an interesting person in doctor's neighborhood, Mr. Bonobihari Sarkar. Bonobihari babu has ferocious and poisonous creatures like crocodile, African tiger, hyena, rattlesnake, scorpion and black widow spider in his own home.

Badshahi Angti

2014

Ajob Prem Ebong... poster
NR

This is a black comedy about a complex relationship between a bus, its conductor and the widow of a villager who was run over by the bus in an accident. Set in an Indian village, the story ...

Ajob Prem Ebong...

2011

2000s · 6 titles

Bombaiyer Bombete poster
7.4

Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu − a sidekick of Feluda − gets invited to Mumbai (previously Bombay) to watch the shooting of a film based on a novel written by him. Once in Mumbai, he, along with Feluda and Topshe gets embroiled with underworld kingpins. He seems to have transported the Nana Sahib's necklace. But fortunately because of Feluda the real thief is caught and convicted. Although the original story was written in the 1970s, the movie is set in more recent times and depict the real problem of underworld involvement in Bollywood.

Bombaiyer Bombete

2003

Tintorettor Jishu poster
7.0

Feluda, the famous Bengali detective tackles an international buyer, a corrupt arts agent, numerous henchmen and impostors in this story that revolves around a painting of Jesus by the famous Italian painter Tintoretto.

Tintorettor Jishu

2008

Box No. 1313 poster
NR

Joy's parents are busy searching for a suitable match for him, but are cheated by matchmakers. Meanwhile, Joy falls in love with an air-hostess who doesn't show interest in him. Will Joy convince her?

Box No. 1313

2009

Bonobhumi poster
NR

Several Hindu people whose lives get intertwined, experience complex human emotions due to many complications. They all come to the conclusion that love does not always bring happiness.

Bonobhumi

2007

Mondo Meyer Upakhyan poster
5.4

Rajani is a well-known prostitute in a small town in Bengal, India, living in a brothel with her teenage daughter, Lati. With few options for a better life, Rajani hopes to arrange a marriage for her daughter with a wealthy local businessman - an idea Lati opposes. Choosing a life of unpredictability and the possibility of education over the known fate of arranged marriage, Lati takes off for Calcutta, encountering several quirky characters along the way.

Mondo Meyer Upakhyan

2002

Dekha poster
5.8

The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.

Dekha

2001

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