List of Bengali films of 2012

A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 2012.

Critically acclaimed films of 2012

• Bhooter Bhabishyat
• Aparajita Tumi
• Elar Char Adhyay
• Muktodhara
• Nobel Chor
• Laptop
• Chitrangada
• Paanch Adhyay
• Abosheshe
• Hemlock Society
• Dutta Vs Dutta

2012 Releases

A list of Bengali films released (or to be released) in 2012.

January – March

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Genre
J A N	6	Bedroom	Mainak Bhowmik	Rahul, Abir Chatterjee, Parno Mittra, Ushashie Chakraborty, Tanushree Chakraborty, Rudranil Ghosh	Drama
		Ek Je Chilo Bhooter Chana	Samar	Kuntal Pal, Prem, Manisha Das, Souvik Mahoto, Tapasi Bose, Mrinal Mukherjee, Tapati Sharma, Shibaji Bagchi, Satyen Chakraborty, Dipanjan Chakraborty	Fantasy Children
		Prem Bibhrat	Archan Chakraborty	June Maliah, Naina Das, Subhendu Chatterjee, Manoj Mitra, Chinmoy Roy	Romance Drama
	13	Khokababu	Shankar Aiyya	Dev, Subhashree, Ferdous, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Aritra Dutta Banik	Romance
	20	100% Love	Rabi Kinagi	Jeet, Koel Mallick, Supriya Dutta	Romance
		Aparajita Tumi	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Padmapriya Janakiraman	Drama
F E B	3	Goray Gondogol	Aniket Chattopadhyay	Rahul, Sampurna, Rudranil Ghosh, Kharaj Mukherjee, Kanchan Mullick	Comedy
	10	Chaal — The Game Begins	Alok Roy	Saheb Chattopadhyay, Pallabi Chattopadhyay, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Dolon Roy, Arunima Ghosh, Dulal Lahiri	Action
	17	Nobel Chor	Suman Ghosh	Mithun Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Sudipta Chakraborty, Harsh Chhaya, Roopa Ganguly, Soumitra Chatterjee, Soma Chakraborty, Paran Bandyopadhyay, Arindam Sil, Shankar Debnath, Kaushik Ganguly	Suspense / Drama
		Ek Tuku Chhoya Lage	-	Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Arnab, Ragini	Romance
		Jaal	Amit Samanta	Tanveer, Pamela Mondal, Rohan, Victor Banerjee, Santu Mukhopadhyay, Sumanta Mukhopadhyay, Anuradha Ray, Silajit Majumder, Masud Akhtar	Drama
	24	Flop-E	Pritam Sarkar	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Paoli Dam, Monika Chakraborty, Barun Chanda, Suvrojit, Saswati Guhathakurta, Srijit Mukherji, Sanjib Mukherjee	Drama
M A R	2	Charuulata 2011	Agnidev Chatterjee	Rituparna Sengupta, Dibyendu, Arjun Chakraborty	Drama
		Bhalobasa Off Route E	Arunava Khasnobis	Rahul, Saswata Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Abhiraj, Kharaj Mukherjee, Kanchan Mullick, Tanusree, Parijat, Partha Sarathi Deb, Padmanabha Dasgupta	Drama
		Zameen	Sourav Mukhopadhyay	Supriya Devi, Dolon Roy, Dulal Lahiri	Drama
		Atmatyag	Kumar Monojit	Chumki Chowdhury, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Debika Mukhopadhyay, Dulal Lahiri, Sumit Gangopadhyay, Manoj Mitra	Drama
	9	Macho Mustanaa	Reshmi Mitra	Hiran Chatterjee, Pooja Bose	Action Romance
		Pather Sesh Kothay	Tanima Sen	Saheb Chattopadhyay, Chandreyee Ghosh, Krishna Kishor Mukhopadhyay, Soumitra Chatterjee, Gourab Chattopadhyay	Drama
	16	Bhooter Bhabishyat	Anik Dutta	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Parambrata Chatterjee, Samadarshi Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee, Paran Bandyopadhyay, George Baker, Bibhu Bhattacharya, Sreelekha Mitra, Kharaj Mukherjee, Mumtaz Sorcar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Mir Afsar Ali, Manami Ghosh, Sumit Samaddar	Horror Drama Comedy
		Hariye Jaai	Joy Mukherjee	Abhishek Chatterjee, Nibedita, Gargi Raychowdhury, Santana Bose, Anusuya Majumdar, Shankar Chakraborty, Kushal Chakraborty	Drama
	23	Abar Byomkesh	Anjan Dutt	Abir Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Ushashie Chakraborty, Swastika Mukherjee	Detective
		Bomkesh Bakshi (Adimripu) (Re-Release)	Anjan Dutt	Abir Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Ushashie Chakraborty, Chandan Sen	Detective
		Adhikar	Rajat Das	Amitabh Bhattacharjee	Drama
	30	Amrita	Tapan Saha	Smriti Irani, Victor Banerjee, Sreya Pandey	Drama
		Comeback	Pallab Kumar Ghosh	Rituparna Sengupta, Ferdous Ahmed, Anshuman	Drama

April – June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Genre
A P R	13	Le Halua Le	Raja Chanda	Mithun Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty, Payel Sarkar, Hiran Chatterjee, Laboni Sarkar, Aritra Dutta Banik	Romance Comedy
		Laptop	Kaushik Ganguly	Rahul Bose, Churni Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Kaushik Ganguly, Rajesh Sharma, Pijush Ganguly, Arindam Sil, Gaurav Chakraborty, Ridhima Ghosh, Arun Guhathakurta, Aparajita Adhya, Anjana Basu, Jojo, Neha Kapoor, Indranil Banerjee, Pratyay Basu.	Drama
		Ki Kore Bojhabo ...Tomake	Chaya Singh	Arjun Chakraborty, Chaya Singh, Tanveer Khan, Riwk, Payal, Joy Badlani	Thriller
	27	8:08 Er Bongaon Local	Debaditya	Raghubir Yadav, Tapas Paul, Soumitra Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Paoli Dam, Sonalee Chaudhuri	Drama
		Hathat Sedin	Basu Chatterjee	Ferdous Ahmed	Drama
M A Y	4	Teen Yaari Katha	Sudeshna Roy & Abhijit Guha	Neel Mukherjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Parambrata Chatterjee, Gargi Roy Choudhuri, June Maliah, Rimjhim Mitra, Paoli Dam, Gita Dey, Biplab Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee	Comedy
	11	Elar Char Adhyay	Bappaditya Bandopadhyay	Paoli Dam, Indraneil Sengupta, Rudranil Ghosh, Bikram Chatterjee, Arunima Ghosh	Drama
		Hridoye Lekho Naam	Paritosh Das	Raj, Debomita, Arun Bandyopadhyay, Anuradha Ray, Rajat Ganguly, Rudranil Ghosh	Romance
	24	Kanchenjunga Express	Amab Ghosh	Mumtaz Sorcar, Sabyasachi Chakraborty	Suspense
	25	Bikram Singha	Rajib Biswas	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Richa Gangopadhyay	Action
		Koyekti Meyer Golpo	Subrata Sen	Raima Sen, Locket Chatterjee, Mumtaz Sorcar, Rii, Kanchana Moitra	Drama
		Jaaneman	Raja Chanda	Soham Chakraborty, Koel Mallick, Ashish Vidyarthi	Romance
J U N	1	Mayabazaar	Joydeep Ghosh	Roopa Ganguly, Dhritiman Chaterji, Badshah Moitra	Drama
	8	Abhiman — Osthityer Lorai	Debanik Kundu	Arpita Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee	Drama
	22	Hemlock Society	Srijit Mukherji	Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly, Dipankar Dey, Silajit Majumder, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabitri Chattopadhyay, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bratya Basu, Barun Chanda, Raj Chakraborty, Sudeshna Roy, Sohag Sen	Drama
	29	Om Shanti	Satabdi Roy	Victor Banerjee, Tapas Paul, Rituparna Sengupta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma	Drama
		Ullas	Ishwar Chakraborty	Tapas Paul, Satabdi Roy, Soumitra Chatterjee, Mahasweta Devi	Drama
		Haatchhani	Gourishankar Sarkhel	Rupsha, Subhasish Mukhopadhyay, Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay, Kharaj Mukherjee, Santana Bose, Bhola Tamang, Rana Pratap Bose, Ranajoy Bhattacharya	Horror
		Phire Eso Tumi	Asish Mitra	Badsha Moitra, Dulal Lahiri, Mrinal Mukherjee, Anup Sharma, Vivek Trivedi, Meghna Halder and Shakuntala Barua	Romance
		Bhallu Sardar	Debdut Ghosh	Biswajit Chakraborty, Satarupa Sanyal, Monami Ghosh, Kanchan Mullick, Supriyo Dutta, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Suhina, Debdut Ghosh	Children

July – September

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Genre
J U L	6	Chhoan	Shibendu Guha Biswas	Rudranil Ghosh, Tanusree, Wriju Biswas, Siddhartha, Rhea Mukherjee, Sumanta Mukhopadhyay, Pramita Chatterjee	Romance
	13	Awara	Rabi Kinagi	Jeet, Sayantika Banerjee, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukul Dev, Kharaj Mukherjee	Action, Romance
		Keno Mon Take Chay	Milan Bhowmick	Raaj, Rimjhim Mitra, Oindrila, Biplab Chatterjee, Arpita Baker, Mrinal Mukherjee	Romance
	20	Life in Park Street	Raj Mukherjee	Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Rajesh Sharma, Dron Mukherjee, Shruti Bandyopadhyay	Drama
	27	Darling	Raj Mukherjee	Mayukh Mazumder, Riya Chanda, Pamela Mondal, Aishwarya	Romance
		Palatak	Nehal Dutta	Jayanto, Suchandra, Ferdous Ahmed, Shankar Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Soma Dey, Ramen Raychowdhury, Biplab Ketan Chakraborty	Drama
A U G	3	Muktodhara	Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee	Rituparna Sengupta, Nigel Akkara, Bratya Basu, Debshankar Haldar, Kharaj Mukherjee	Drama
	17	Shooter	Provash & Arijit	Joy, Sayantika, Ashish Vidyarthi	Drama
		Bhalobashar 2nd Marriage	Prashanta Bardhan	Sujjoy Ghosh, Poulomi, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Deepankar De, Manoj Mitra, Subhashish Mukherjee	Romance/Comedy
	20	Se Amar Mon Kereche	Sohanur Rahman Sohan	Shakib Khan, Srabosti Dutta Tinni	Romance, Action
	31	Paglu 2	Sujit Mondal	Dev, Koel Mallick	Romance / Drama
		Chitrangada	Rituparno Ghosh	Rituparno Ghosh, Jisshu Sengupta, Raima Sen, Dipankar Dey	Drama
S E P	14	Dashami	Suman Maitra	Indraneil Sengupta, Koel Mallick, Locket Chatterjee	Drama
		Passport	Raj Mukherjee	Ferdous Ahmed, Gargi Raychowdhury, Rajesh Sharma	Drama
		Love History	-	-	Romance
	21	Abosheshey	Aditi Roy	Ankur Khanna, Raima Sen, Roopa Ganguly, Dipankar De, Manasi Sinha, Sudipta Chakraborty, Kamalika Bandyopadhyay, Suman Mukherjee, Abhijit Guha, Arijit Dutta	Drama
		E Shudhu Amar Gaan	Shankar Ray	Raj, Santu Mukherjee, Biswajit Chakroborty, Dwijen Banerjee, Debdut Ghosh, Janiva Roy	Drama
	28	Accident	Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee	Rudranil Ghosh, Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Sampurna Lahiri, Debshankar Haldar, Kharaj Mukherjee, Sankarshan Das, Kanchana Moitra	Drama

October – December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Genre
O C T	5	Ekla Akash	Sandipan Roy	Parambrata Chatterjee, Gautam Ghose, Parno Mittra, Rudranil Ghosh	Drama
		Shudhu Tomake Chai	Rudranil Chowdhury	Soumili Biswas, Bhaswar, Mumtaz Sorcar, Tilottama Dutta, Shaheb Chatterjee	Romance / Drama
		Ragging	Anup Shankar Saha & Bikash Banerjee	Vik, Olivia, Subhomoy Chowdhury, Rana Mukhkopadhyay, Koushik Dutta	Drama
	19	Challenge 2	Raja Chanda	Dev, Pooja Bose, Kharaj Mukherjee	Action
		Paanch Adhyay	Pratim D. Gupta	Dia Mirza, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee	Romance / Drama
		Astra	Tathagata Bhattacharjee	Joy, Samapika, Soumitra Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma	Action / Drama
N O V	2	3 Kanya	Agnidev Chatterjee	Rituparna Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Unnati Davara, Rajatava Dutta, Sudip Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee	Thriller
		Borolar Ghor	Mani C. Kappan	Utpal Das, Debasmita Banerjee	Romance
	9	Prem Leela	Goutam Majumder	Trambak Roy Chowdhury, Taniska, Rajatava Dutta, Biswajit Chakraborty	Romance
	14	Idiot	Rajib Biswas	Ankush Hazra, Srabanti, Aditya Pancholi	Romance
	16	Na Hannyate	Riingo Banerjee	Roopa Ganguly, Dibyendu Mukherjee, Sayani Dutta, Rahul, Priyanka Sarkar, Chaiti Ghosal, Deb Shankar Halder	Drama
	23	Dutta Vs Dutta	Anjan Dutt	Anjan Dutt, Ronodeep Bose, Arpita Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly, Rita Kayral, Parno Mittra, Dipankar De, Shankar Chakraborty, Biswajit Chakraborty, Kaushik Sen, Subhasish Mukherjee, Srijit Mukherji, Manasi Sinha, Debranjan Nag, Pradip Ray, Somak Ghosh	Drama
	30	Tabe Tai Hok	Sougata Ray Barman	Joy Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Samadarshi Dutta	Drama
		Sector 5	Souradip Banerjee	Rajatava Dutta, Barun Chanda, Apala Pal, Arijit Dutta, Suman haldar, Shamal saha	Drama
		From Headquarters	Debabrata Roy	Abhishek Chatterjee, Locket Chatterjee, Chandan Sen, Anindya Banerjee, Sourav	Drama
D E C	7	Bapi Bari Jaa	Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha	Arjun Chakrabarty, Mimi Chakraborty, Shalmi Barman, Anindya Chatterjee, Dhruva Lal, Tista Dutta	Drama
		Tor Naam	Jaya Shankar	Gaurav, Swati, Victor Banerjee, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Mithu Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Mousami Saha, Tota Roy Choudhury,Suman Banerjee	Romance/Drama
		Chupkatha	Souvick Sarkar and Dipankar	Payel Roy, Silajit Majumder, Aparajita Auddy, Bhaswar Chattopadhyay	Drama
	14	Balukabela.com	Partha Sen	Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Locket Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Ambalika, Taniya, Indranil, Abhiraj, Rudranil Ghosh, Rahul, Bratya Basu, Saswata Chatterjee, Paran Bandopadhyay, Sudipa Basu	Comedy
		Antore Bahire	Somnath Sen	Abhiraj, Moubani Sorcar, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee	Drama
	21	Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy	Sandip Ray	Paran Bandopadhyay, Abir Chatterjee, Bhaswar Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee	Comedy
	28	Bojhena Shey Bojhena	Raj Chakraborty	Soham Chakraborty, Payel Sarkar, Abir Chatterjee, Mimi Chakraborty	Romance/Drama
		Bawali Unlimited	Sujit Mondal	Payel Sarkar, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rajatava Dutta, Joy, Sourav	Romance Comedy
		Gundaraj	Sanjay Banerjee	Raja Goswami, Megha, Bodhisattwa Majumdar, Anuradha Ray, Kalyani Mondal, Koushik Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta Dutta Burman, Anamika Saha, Shakti Kapoor, Sambhavana Sheth	Action
	31	Khasi Katha- A Goat Saga	Judhajit Sarkar	Naseeruddin Shah, Anindita Bose	Drama

Classic Bengali Films of 1962

Celebrating 50 Years in 2012

• Kancher Swarga — Released 9 February 1962 - Directed by Yatrik. [Award: Won the President's Award, India, 1962, Silver Medal for Best Bengali Film].
• Bhagini Nivedita - Released 16 February 1962 - Directed by Bijoy Bose. [Award: Won the President's Award, India, 1961, Gold Medal for Best Film].
• Hansuli Banker Upakatha - Released 14 April 1962 - Directed by Tapan Sinha.
• Kanchenjungha - Released 11 May 1962 - Directed by Satyajit Ray.
• Abhijan - Released 28 September 1962 - Directed by Satyajit Ray. [Awards: Won the President's Award, India, 1962, Certificate of Merit.]
• Kumari Mon - Released 5 October 1962 - Directed by Chitrarath, Screenplay by Ritwik Ghatak. Ritwik Ghatak also acted in the film.
• Dadathakur - Released 9 November 1962 - Directed by Sudhir Mukhopadhyay. [Awards: President's Award, India, 1962, Gold Medal.]

Deaths (2012)

• Jishu Dasgupta, 56, Director - 21 December 2012
• Pandit Manas Chakraborty, 70, Classical Vocalist - 12 December 2012
• Pandit Ravi Shankar, 92, Sitar Maestro - 11 December 2012
• Shanti Gopal Pal, 84, Legendary Jatra Actor - 5 November 2012 The Times Of India Article on Shanti Gopal Pal
• Sunil Gangopadhyay, 78, Indian poet and novelist - 23 October 2012 The Times Of India Article
• Syed Mustafa Siraj, 82, Bengali Littérateur - 4 September 2012 Business Standard Article
• Dipti Roy, Actress - 26 August 2012 "The Hindu" Article
• Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Actor - 24 May 2012
• Mohit Chattopadhyay, 78, Indian Theatre Personality. - 12 April 2012
• Minakshi Goswami, 78, Indian Actress. - 8 April 2012
• Bijan Chowdhury, 81, Bangladesh-born Indian painter. - 16 March 2012
• Himanish Goswami, 85, Noted Indian litterateur and cartoonist of Bengali literature, prostate cancer. - 14 March 2012
• Joy Mukherjee, 73, Indian actor. - 9 March 2012
• Pandit Nidan Bandhu Banerjee, 89, Indian classical vocalist, age related illness. - 23 February 2012
• Joydeb Basu, 49, Indian poet, heart attack. - 23 February 2012
• Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack. - 21 February 2012
• Maya Sen, 84, Indian Rabindra Sangeet exponent, heart and thyroid problems. - 20 February 2012

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