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kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye is Bengali suspense-thriller web-series directed by Joydeep Mukherjee and produced by Shyamsundar De. It is an adaptation of Narayan Sanyal's P. K. Basu series novel Sonar Kaanta, which is actually inspired by The Mousetrap of Agatha Christie. This is the second time P. K. Basu series has been adapted for the screen, the first time being in 1974 when Tarun Majumdar made Jadi Jantem featuring Uttam Kumar as the protagonist.
The series was released on August 15, 2024.




Cast


Saswata Chatterjee as P.K.Basu
Ananya Chatterjee as Rani Basu
Payel Sarkar as Kaveri Dutta Gupta
Soham Chakraborty as Subir Roy
Mir Afsar Ali as Inspector Nripen Ghoshal
Somraj Maity as Koushik Mitra
Ayoshi Talukdar as Sujata Chatterjee
Subrat Dutta as Raman Guha
Abhijit Guha as Arup
Rachel White as Neena Basu
Prantik Banerjee as Ajoy Roy
Kinjal Nanda as Noor Ali Baig




Casting


A movie adaption of the same story was announced in 2018, starring Ranjit Mullick as PK Basu. The rest of the cast included Rachel White. The film never released. In 2022, ZEE5 announced that they were working on a web series around the same story with Saswata Chatterjee as the protagonist. Rachel White was announced to be a part of the cast of the series as well.




Marketing


The teaser of kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye was released on July 25, 2024. The trailer was released on July 31.




Reception


kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye received mixed reviews. The Times of India gave it 3.5 stars out of 5 calling it a " binge-worthy watch". Subhash K. Jha writing for Times Now also gave it a thumbs up, commenting, "Apart from some good performances, kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye plays some ear-soothing songs in the background about grief, loss and hope."
Scroll.in on the other hand was critical about the series and called it "An overstretched whodunit". HT Media too gave it a 2 out of 5 and termed the show a missable.




See also


Feluda
Byomkesh Bakshi
Dipak Chatterjee
Parashor Barma




References






External links


kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye at IMDb
kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye kaantaye" target="_blank">Kaantaye on ZEE5

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• Kaantaye Kaantaye
• Soham Chakraborty
• Mir Afsar Ali
• Ananya Chatterjee
• Somraj Maity
• Narayan Sanyal
• P. K. Basu
• Saswata Chatterjee
• Payel Sarkar
• Rachel White (actress)