Goyenda Gogol

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Goyenda Gogol is a 2013 Bengali suspense film directed by Arindam Dey and produced by Supratik Ghosh under Ishani Films. It’s based on Samaresh Basu’s story Sonali Parer Rahashya and stars child actor Ahijit Ghosh alongside Indraneil Sengupta, with Saheb Chatterjee and Rachana Banerjee as Gogol’s parents. The movie was released on 24 May 2013 and runs 111 minutes.

Goyenda Gogol follows Gogol, a clever bespectacled class VI student who loves gadgets and karate. On a summer trip to Puri with his mother and US-returned father, he becomes fascinated by a deserted house called Hanabari. People who enter the house seem to vanish, and Gogol’s curiosity pulls him into a mystery.

The plot thickens when a professor, Neel Senapati, tries to scare him away, but Gogol discovers that Neel is actually Amrit, a drug smuggler who has kidnapped him in search of a rare Shah diamond that somehow ends up in Gogol’s bag. A private detective named Ashok Thakur, who has been following the case, rescues Gogol and helps unravel the danger surrounding the diamond and the smuggling scheme.

The film’s music is by Shamik Sinha, with a single title track sung by Silajit Majumder. Shooting took place in West Bengal and Orissa, including Kolkata, Tajpur, Puri, and the Udayagiri–Khandagiri Caves, spanning about eight months and facing several delays. Director Arindam Dey described modernizing Gogol with glasses and a tablet, and building a haunted-house set on Puri Beach to fit the story.

Goyenda Gogol received positive reviews, with critics praising Ahijit Ghosh’s performance as Gogol. It earned about 3/5 stars from Gomolo, The Times of India, and In.com, noting the film's kid-friendly appeal and solid supporting cast, though some comments pointed to rough special effects and questions about authenticity of certain set pieces.

A sequel, Gogoler Kirti, released on 12 September 2014. Ahijit Ghosh again played Gogol, and the film was directed by Pompi Ghosh Mukherjee, adapting two Samaresh Basu stories, Royraja Uddhar and Mahishmardini Uddhar.