Bhooter Bhabishyat
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anik Dutta
Screenplay by	Anik Dutta, Deb Roy
Story by	Anik Dutta
Produced by	Joy Ganguly
Starring	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Parambrata Chatterjee Paran Bandopadhyay Swastika Mukherjee Sumit Samaddar Biswajit Chakraborty Mir Afsar Ali Saswata Chatterjee Sreelekha Mitra Samadarshi Dutta
Cinematography	Avik Mukhopadhyay
Edited by	Arghyakamal Mitra
Music by	Raja Narayan Deb
Production companies	Satya Films Mojo Productions
Release dates	16 March 2012 (2012-03-16) (West Bengal) 13 April 2012 (2012-04-13) (Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	₹0.6 crore (US$75,000)[1]
Box office	₹3 crore (US$380,000) (100 days)[1]

Bhooter Bhabishyat (ভূতের ভবিষ্যৎ English: Future of the past or future of ghost) is a 2012 Indian Bengali ghost comedy film directed by Anik Dutta. The film became one of the biggest hits of 2012 among the Bengali films.^[2] It is a film with supernatural element.^[3] It is the directorial debut of Anik Dutta. It was well received by various critics for its direction, and storyline.

Plot

Ayan Sengupta, an ad director, visits a palace-like house for shooting his new ad. His dream is to make a movie but he doesn't have enough money. A man named Biplab Dasgupta, whom Ayan encounters in the house, narrates a story to him. The story is about an old decrepit house called the Chowdhury Mansion, which was haunted by the spirit of its last owner, before other wandering ghosts settled down.

A shooting of a movie named 'Antarjash' was happening where Madhumita Sanyal, the lead actress, lost consciousness during a shooting. When she regained consciousness, she said that she saw the reflection of a unknown woman in the mirror.

The first section of the story, describes the ghosts familiarizing with each other and as their initial hostility towards each other disappears, they start to regard each other as friends. Unfortunately, this atmosphere of peace and tranquility is destroyed when the ghosts discover that a greedy, plot dealer had made up his mind to convert the large, old house into a deluxe shopping mall. It is then upon the ghosts to figure out, how they will go about trying to save the house that granted them shelter, even after their deaths. Will they be able to save Chowdury Mansion from the prying eyes of the selfish dealer? Will Ayan be able to identify who this Biplab Dasgupta is and make his film debut?

Cast (in order of appearance)

• Paran Bandopadhyay as Darpa Narayan Chowdhury, the ghost of a 19th century zamindar, and the last owner of the mansion
• Swastika Mukherjee as Kadalibala Dasi, an actress's ghost from the 1940s
• Sumit Samaddar as Bhootnath Bhaduri, the ghost of a refugee from Bangladesh
• Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Biplab Dasgupta, the story teller and the ghost of a Naxalite
• George Baker as Sir Donald Ramsey, an Englishman's ghost who was killed by a freedom fighter
• Mir Afsar Ali as Ganesh Bhutoria, the builder
• Udayshankar Pal as Atmaram Paswan, a rickshawpuller ghost from Bihar
• Pradip DasGupta as Khaja Khan, the ghost of the cook who served Siraj-ud-Daula
• Samadarshi Dutta as Pablo Patranabis, the rock musician ghost
• Mumtaz Sorcar as Koel Dhar, the ghost of an industrialist's daughter
• Parambrata Chatterjee as Ayan Sengupta, an aspiring director
• Biswajit Chakraborty as Brigadier Yudhajit Sarkar, an army officer's ghost who died during the Kargil War
• Arunava Dutta as Nantu, Production Manager
• Ashes Bhattacharyya as lawyer of Ganesh Bhutoria
• Bibhu Bhattacharya as Sudhirbabu, caretaker of "Chowdhury Palace"
• Saswata Chatterjee as Haatkata Kartik, a criminal ghost
• Sreelekha Mitra as Madhumita Sanyal
• Monami Ghosh as Laxmi, Bhutoria's dead wife
• Kharaj Mukherjee as Pramod Pradhan aka Pod Podhan (Po'od P'odhan)
• Sanjay Biswas as T. K. Guchait, Bhutoria's secretary
• Anindita Bose as Rinka
• Debdut Ghosh as Keshab Narayan Chowdhury, lover of Kadalibala
• Suchismita Chowdhury as Sonali, the news reporter who was shown before the casting of the movie
• Md Jakir Hossain as Raj

Release

Bengali film stars were present in the screening of the film in March 2012.^[4] The Indian Express gave Bhooter Bhabishyat a four-star rating and described the film as "one of the most intelligent and satiric comedies one has seen in a long time".^[5] The film was also released in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi in April 2012.^[6]

Remake

The film has been remade in Hindi as Gang of Ghosts, directed by Satish Kaushik.

Legacy

Two of the films character has been portrayed in an ad-film of Bisk Farm Top biscuit; where Debdut Ghosh reprises his role as Keshab Narayan Chowdhury, and actor Pushpita Mukherjee replaces Swastika Mukherjee as Kadalibala Dasi.^[7]