The Eken

The Eken is a 2022 Indian Bengali-language detective film directed by Joydip Mukherjee.[1] The film is produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films.[2] In the film, Anirban Chakraborty plays the titular role of Ekenbabu, a fictional detective character created by Sujan Dasgupta. The screenplay of the film is written by Padmanabha Dasgupta.[3]

The Eken
Official Theatrical Poster
Directed byJoydip Mukherjee
Written byPadmanabha Dasgupta
Screenplay byPadmanabha Dasgupta
Story bySujan Dasgupta
Produced byShrikant Mohta
Mahendra Soni
StarringAnirban Chakraborty
Suhotra Mukhopadhyay
Somak Ghosh
Payel Sarkar
Debasish Mondal
CinematographyRamyadip Saha
Edited byRabiranjan Maitra
Md. Piyasuddin
Music bySubhadip Guha
Production
company
Distributed bySVF
Release date
  • 14 April 2022 (2022-04-14)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Cast
  • Anirban Chakraborty as Ekenbabu[4]
  • Payel Sarkar as Bipasha Mitra [4]
  • Suhotra Mukhopadhay as Bapi
  • Somak Ghosh as Pramatha
  • Debasish Mondal as Debraj Singh
  • Debopriyo Mukherjee as Bubun Kar
  • Indrajit Mazumder as Jiten Ghosh
  • Kaushik Chattopadhyay as Jayanta Biswas

Production

The principal photography of the film began on 28 January 2022.[4] The film was wrapped up on 11 February 2022.

The cinematographer of the film is Ramyadip Saha. The editing of the film is done by Rabiranjan Maitra and Md. Piyasuddin. The production is designed by Ranjit Gorai. The costume designer is Jayanti Sen. The makeup is done by Sourav Ganguly. The sound is designed and mixed by Srijit Gupta.

Release

The teaser of the film released on 22 March 2022.[5] The trailer of the film released on 25 March 2022.[6] The film released theatrically on 14 April 2022 coinciding with Poila Baisakh.[7]

Soundtrack
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."The Eken (Title Track)"Godhuli SharmaSidhu2:29
Total length:2:29

Reception

Shamayita Chakraborty rated 4/5 reviewing for The Times of India and opined that the movie is worthy of watching, but wrote that the plot is weak thus making an unpredictable storyline.[8] Roushini Sarkar reviewing for Cinestaan rated 2/4 and opined that the movie has multiple twists, however, said that, the writing is weak and the executing of twists to be, at some instances, boring. She praised the performances of Mukhopadhay and Ghosh but criticized that of others.[9]

References
  1. "The Eken (2022) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  2. "The Eken (2022) - Movie | Reviews, Cast & Release Date in kolkata - BookMyShow". in.bookmyshow.com. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. "The Eken: নববর্ষের আগেই বড় পর্দায় একেন বাবু! প্রকাশ্যে 'দ্য একেন'-র পোস্টার". Aaj Tak বাংলা (in Bengali). Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. আনন্দ, ওয়েব ডেস্ক, এবিপি (1 February 2022). "'দ্য একেন'-এ অনির্বাণের সঙ্গী পায়েল, দার্জিলিংয়ে জোরকদমে চলছে শ্যুটিং". bengali.abplive.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. "'The Eken' teaser: Eken Babu's first big screen outing promises to be an intense murder mystery - Times of ndia". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  6. "'The Eken' trailer: The ingenious 'maachey bhaatey Bangali' detective is back to solve a murder mystery - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  7. "SVF announces - Films Slate to hit the Silver Screen with Back-to-Back Releases in 2022". SVF Entertainment. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  8. Chakraborty, Shamayita (16 April 2022). "The Eken movie review". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  9. Sarkar, Roushni (16 April 2022). "The Eken review: Despite great performance by Anirban Chakrabarti, this murder mystery is a one-time watch". Cinestaan. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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