Summary
Calcutta, 1960. A gang of women robbers is terrorizing the city. They enter the house during the day when women are in the house alone. They pose as salesgirls & offer attractive discounts to entice customers. Once inside, they pull weapons to rob the occupants.
Chintamani Kundu (Sunil Dhawan) writes a letter to Byomkesh. Chintamani is a stroke victim & left leg paralyzed. Servant Ramadhin cares for him. He stays on the top floor of his 2-floor house and watches the street opposite to him, which has 2 identical ground floor rooms which Chintamani owns and gives on rent. He has a binocular.
One day a young man named Tapan (Rakesh Sahu) (dressed in heavy overcoat and sunglasses) hires one of the rooms & agrees with Chintamani to start staying there from the same evening, along with his wife. Tapan claims to have a job in a newspaper publishing house, where he works all night & sleeps all day. Chintamani asks for Rs 150 per month as rent for his furnished room, which Tapan agrees.
But that evening no one came. The next morning Chintamani observes that the door of the rented house is open. So, he guesses that Tapan & his wife have moved in overnight. He watches a woman close the door and go out only to return before sundown.
Shanti (Varsha Agnihotri) is Tapan's wife and comes to meet Chintamani. She says she is a schoolteacher. Every day Chintamani observes Shanti go out in morning to return in evening & Tapan (dressed in heavy overcoat, and glasses) go out at night & return before morning. Chintamani has never seen Tapan & Shanti together. But Shanti comes to meet Chintamani quite frequently.
One-night Chintamani observes a stranger entering Shanti's room late at night, when Tapan was at work. A few nights later Chintamani sees Tapan lay in wait at night & murder the stranger before he enters his room & then goes inside his room.
Chintamani calls the police. The police find only Shanti in the room. The dead man is a policeman from out of town, who was in Calcutta for a vacation. Tapan is absconding.
Police suspects Chintamani, who writes a letter to Byomkesh, requesting his help.
Byomkesh meets Chintamani and learns that Tapan had a thin voice. The police suspects Chintamani's hand in the murder. They think that Tapan conducted the murder, but Chintamani was involved and is now putting the blame on Tapan, to save his own skin.
Byomkesh reaches Shanti's room with police & finds a suitcase. Upon opening it has lots of stolen merchandise. Plus there is no shaving kit in the house, neither any male slippers.
Byomkesh surmises that Shanti and Tapan are the same person. Shanti is an escaped convict who killed a jail guard while escaping. Shanti's real name is Pramila Pal, who was jailed for poisoning her husband. She escaped 2 years into her jail term & came to Calcutta to hide as Tapan and Shanti.
The stranger was a police officer who recognized Pramila & hence was murdered by her. Pramila used to conduct robberies during the day. She used to dress as Tapan during the night to exit the house while Chintamani was awake. But then would return home later at night, when Chintamani was asleep.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Rajit Kapoor K.K. Raina Kartik Dutta Sukanya Kulkarni
Genres : Thriller Adventure Mystery Crime
Countries of origin : India
Language : Hindi
Summary
Calcutta, 1960. A gang of women robbers is terrorizing the city. They enter the house during the day when women are in the house alone. They pose as salesgirls & offer attractive discounts to entice customers. Once inside, they pull weapons to rob the occupants.
Chintamani Kundu (Sunil Dhawan) writes a letter to Byomkesh. Chintamani is a stroke victim & left leg paralyzed. Servant Ramadhin cares for him. He stays on the top floor of his 2-floor house and watches the street opposite to him, which has 2 identical ground floor rooms which Chintamani owns and gives on rent. He has a binocular.
One day a young man named Tapan (Rakesh Sahu) (dressed in heavy overcoat and sunglasses) hires one of the rooms & agrees with Chintamani to start staying there from the same evening, along with his wife. Tapan claims to have a job in a newspaper publishing house, where he works all night & sleeps all day. Chintamani asks for Rs 150 per month as rent for his furnished room, which Tapan agrees.
But that evening no one came. The next morning Chintamani observes that the door of the rented house is open. So, he guesses that Tapan & his wife have moved in overnight. He watches a woman close the door and go out only to return before sundown.
Shanti (Varsha Agnihotri) is Tapan's wife and comes to meet Chintamani. She says she is a schoolteacher. Every day Chintamani observes Shanti go out in morning to return in evening & Tapan (dressed in heavy overcoat, and glasses) go out at night & return before morning. Chintamani has never seen Tapan & Shanti together. But Shanti comes to meet Chintamani quite frequently.
One-night Chintamani observes a stranger entering Shanti's room late at night, when Tapan was at work. A few nights later Chintamani sees Tapan lay in wait at night & murder the stranger before he enters his room & then goes inside his room.
Chintamani calls the police. The police find only Shanti in the room. The dead man is a policeman from out of town, who was in Calcutta for a vacation. Tapan is absconding.
Police suspects Chintamani, who writes a letter to Byomkesh, requesting his help.
Byomkesh meets Chintamani and learns that Tapan had a thin voice. The police suspects Chintamani's hand in the murder. They think that Tapan conducted the murder, but Chintamani was involved and is now putting the blame on Tapan, to save his own skin.
Byomkesh reaches Shanti's room with police & finds a suitcase. Upon opening it has lots of stolen merchandise. Plus there is no shaving kit in the house, neither any male slippers.
Byomkesh surmises that Shanti and Tapan are the same person. Shanti is an escaped convict who killed a jail guard while escaping. Shanti's real name is Pramila Pal, who was jailed for poisoning her husband. She escaped 2 years into her jail term & came to Calcutta to hide as Tapan and Shanti.
The stranger was a police officer who recognized Pramila & hence was murdered by her. Pramila used to conduct robberies during the day. She used to dress as Tapan during the night to exit the house while Chintamani was awake. But then would return home later at night, when Chintamani was asleep.
Genres : Thriller Adventure Mystery Crime
Countries of origin : India
Language : Hindi
