A wife vanishes, a letter haunts—Bengal industrial noir where nothing and no one stays buried.
Monideepa (Sohini) is the wife of industrialist Arun Chowdhury (Neel). A strange letter and she disappears. To investigate this disappearance of his wife Arun takes resort of former CBI officer and private investigator Rudrajit Roy (Chiranjeet). But the story is not as simple as it seems. The film begins two years ahead of the disappearance and goes back to trace the eerie story.
Acting
Sohini Sarkar's disappearance haunts even when she's off-screen.
Cinematography
Mist-choked factory towns and crumbling mansions breathe their own guilt.
Direction
Dual directors weave two timelines into one suffocating trap.
Director
Joydip Banerjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Monihara riffs on Tagore's short story of the same name, but swaps the original's jewel-obsession for industrial-era marital surveillance—Bengali cinema's endless conversation with its literary ghosts.
The dual director credit isn't vanity: Banerjee handled present-timeline dread, Chatterjee the fever-dream past, their clashing styles mirroring the unreliable narrative itself.
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