Srijit Mukherji's Satyajit Ray Film Leads Hoichoi's 10th Anniversary Slate

A Satyajit Ray film from director Srijit Mukherji tops a lineup of more than 25 series, films and television titles that Bengali streaming platform Hoichoi has announced for its tenth year. The slate also delivers new cases for detectives Feluda and Eken Babu and marks the platform's first animated series.

In "Maharaja Tomare Selam," Ray agrees to his son's request to make a children's film. He then battles money trouble, industry resistance and the pressure of his own reputation on the road to what would become a classic of Indian cinema, "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne." Jeetu Kamal, Ritwik Bhowmik, Rudranil Ghosh, Sairity Banerjee, Shatakshy Nandy and Arijit Dutta star.

The Hoichoi Studio film lineup also includes "The Eken: Kerala-e Kurukshetra," directed by Joydeep Mukherjee. A botched secret mission drags Eken Babu into a mystery in Kerala. Anirban Chakrabarti, Ritwick Chakraborty, Raima Sen, Somak Ghosh, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Arna Mukhopadhyay, Subrat Dutta and Kamaleswar Mukherjee make up the cast.

Parambrata Chatterjee directs and appears in "Jononi," about a college professor who searches for her housekeeper's missing teenage daughter and finds secrets closer to home. Koel Mallick, Koneenica Banerjee and Joy Sengupta also star. Debaloy Bhattacharya's "Bhugun," starring Abhishek Banerjee and Parno Mittra, follows a wealthy Bengali family whose deal with a tantric to restore its fortune brings down a deadly curse.

On the series side, Kamaleswar Mukherjee directs "Feludar Goyendagiri: Baksho Rawhoshyo," in which Feluda chases the secret of a box swapped during a train journey. Tota Roy Choudhury, Kalpan Mitra and Subhadip Chakrabarti star.

Returning franchises include "Birangana 2," "Kuheli 2," "Thakumar Jhuli 2," "Tansener Tanpura: Mohonbashi" with Vikram Chatterjee, and "Choddobeshi 2," created by and starring Parambrata Chatterjee. He also directs "Agambagish: Drolmar Khorgo," starring Saswata Chatterjee, in which the tantric saint Krishnananda Agambagish takes on a band of ghostly dacoits in 17th-century Bengal.

New series include Pratim D. Gupta's "Chaalchitro: The Ekchala Murders," about a serial killer who leaves female victims posed as goddesses in the run-up to Durga Puja. It stars Tota Roy Choudhury, Anirban Chakrabarti, Chanchal Chowdhury and Sweta Mishra. Raima Sen leads "Kumari," created by Sahana Dutta. Ayan Chakraborti's "Shrimoti Not Out," starring Ananya Chatterjee and Joy Sengupta, follows a 48-year-old woman who learns she is pregnant just as her son is about to marry. Mimi Chakraborty headlines Aditi Roy's "Uttoron: Charulata," and Sabyasachi Chowdhury stars in "Detective Tarinicharan," a murder mystery set in colonial Darjeeling.

Further series round out the slate: "Debipokkho," "Kauriburir Mandir," "Mangolik," "Konya," "Shoti," "Jujuma" and "Kanamachhi." Sanglap Bhowmick directs the animated "Shri Ramkrishna," which traces the life of spiritual master Ramakrishna Paramahansa — the platform's first animated series. On television, Madhumita Sarcar and Arjun Chakrabarty star in "Katha-Amrito," and Trina Saha stars in "Sholaka Rawhoshyo." The streamer continues to back Bangladeshi creators and productions.

Soumya Mukherjee, COO of Hoichoi, framed the anniversary in cultural rather than numerical terms. "For me, 10 years of Hoichoi is not just about the number of shows we have made or the milestones we have crossed. It is about the stories, characters and creators that have stayed with people and, in many ways, become part of Bengali popular culture," he said.

"When we started, the ambition was simply to create a home for Bengali stories. Ten years later, that belief remains the same, but the possibilities around those stories have become much bigger. We have seen Bengali IP grow beyond the screen it was created for, through adaptations, licensing, theatrical, partnerships, new formats and, increasingly, our stories are traveling beyond Bengal and beyond language."

Hoichoi's library now holds more than 600 Bengali films and over 200 original series, watched in India, Bangladesh and overseas. Beyond subscriptions, the company earns revenue from licensing, branded content, theatrical releases and distribution deals. It has also moved onto technology it built itself.

Newer ventures include Hoichoi FM, which carries original audio fiction inside the app, and Sooper, a microdrama venture working across languages and markets. The company is also testing AI tools for development and production through LoglineAI.

Vishnu Mohta, co-founder of Hoichoi and LoglineAI, said the first decade proved a language-first platform could build a meaningful global business. "The next decade is about expanding what that platform can become," Mohta said. "Technology, AI and new formats are opening up possibilities that simply didn't exist when we started. Our ambition is to use those possibilities without losing the cultural instinct and storytelling sensibility that made Hoichoi what it is."

With an anniversary slate built on Ray, Feluda and Eken Babu — three pillars of Bengali popular storytelling — Hoichoi is betting that its second decade expands that inheritance into animation, audio fiction and AI-driven production without leaving Bengal behind.