If you are looking for the best Bengali movies of 2023, you are at the right place.
In 2023, we saw a huge boom in the Bengali movie industry. There are so many Bengali movies that have been released. However, not all of them are exciting. Here, we have prepared a list of the best Bengali Tollywood movies that have impressed not just the audiences but also the critics.
Best Bengali movies of 2023:
1) Bagha Jatin
- Actors: Deepak Adhikari (Dev), Sreeja Dutta, Sudipta Chakraborty, Samiul Alam, Rohaan Bhattacharjee
- Director: Arun Roy
About the movie: Bagha Jatin is a biographical action film based on Bagha Jatin, a freedom fighter who fought for India’s independence in the early 20th century. Dev’s acting and storyline are the driving force for the success of this film.
You can go ahead and read the review of this movie by clicking here.
2) Manush: Child of Destiny
- Actors: Jeet, Bidya Sinha, Susmita Chatterjee
- Director: Sanjoy Somadder
About the movie: Arjun (played by Jeet) is a middle-class honest police officer whereas his enemy Mannan (played by Jeetu Kamal) is a notorious drug dealer. However, circumstances slowly change Arjun into an inhuman man whereas Mannan leaves the underworld. Will they succeed in winning the game of survival and fighting the battle of destiny?
The music of the film is composed by Aneek Dhar, Savvy, and Ahmmed Humayun. The movie got released in Bengali and Hindi.
3) Jongole Mitin Mashi
- Actors: Koel Mallick, Subhrojeet Dutta, Lekha Chatterjee, Asim Roychowdhury, Kamalika Banerjee
- Director: Arindam Sil
About the movie: Starring Koel Mallick in the lead role, this movie is the sequel to Mitin Mashi (2019). In this movie, Mitin takes on animal poachers. Arindam Sil’s direction and Koel Mallick’s acting are simply too good.
You can go ahead and read the review of this movie by clicking here.
4) Pradhan
- Actors: Dev Adhikari, Paran Banerjee, Soumitrisha Kundu
- Director: Avijit Sen
About the movie: In this movie, Dev is playing the role of a cop for the first time, and the name of his character is Deepak Pradhan who is transferred to the North Bengal where he faces lots of corruption even within his department. How he overcomes the challenges in his professional life as well as in his personal life- is the story of Pradhan. The performance of Dev and Paran Banerjee is absolutely stellar.
5) Ghore Pherar Gaan
- Key actors: Ishaa Saha, Parambrata Chatterjee, Reshmi Sen, Chaitali Dasgupta
- Director: Aritra Sen
About the movie: The story revolves around Tora who gets settled abroad after marrying Ribhu. She finds it hard to grapple with the high-society lifestyle thrust upon her by her mother-in-law, while she desperately tries to impress her husband, Ribhu. However, a chance encounter with a talented musician, Imran, turns her life around and the two are drawn to each other by their shared passion for music. The movie credibly portrays the story of Tora.
6) Dawshom Awbotaar
- Actors: Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya, Jisshu Sengupta, Jaya Ahsan
- Director: Srijit Mukherji
About the movie: This movie is about a serial killer who is terrorizing the city of Kolkata in the early 2000s. His methods of killing people resemble the mythological stories about Vishnu and his ten Avatars. It is such a thrill to see the cops tracking down the killer in this movie. Prosenjit stands tall in this thriller.
7) Kurban
- Actors: Ankush, Priyanka Sarkar
- Director: Saibal Mukherjee
About the movie: Circumstances force a sensitive humanitarian poor man Kurban to become what he is not. As a result, the consequences begin to impact his loved ones.
Director and writer Saibal Chatterjee has explored a new dimension in the form of this movie. Kurban should be watched by everyone not only for the craft but also for the content that is very relevant at present.
8) Bogla Mama Jug Jug Jiyo
- Actors: Kharaj Mukherjee, Riddhi Sen, Aparajita Adhya, Kaushik Sen, Ditipriya Roy, Rajatava Dutta
- Director: Dhrubo Banerjee
About the movie: Bogla Mama Jug Jug Jiyo is based on a cartoon series by Rajkumar Maitra.
Boglacharan Bhattacharya alias Bogla Mama is a middle-aged comical person who leads a gang of youngsters. He is a theater-obsessed person also. The chaotic activities of the gang are very entertaining.
9) Ektu Sore Bosun
- Actors: Ritwick Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Ishaa Saha, Rajatava Dutta, Paran Bandopadhyay, Paoli Dam, Payel Sarkar
- Director: Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
About the movie: Ektu Sore Bosun is based on the short story Pasha Pashi by writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay.
The story of this film is about Guddu, a young Sanskrit graduate, who comes from a village named Begunbagicha to Kolkata in search of a job. Eventually, he becomes a hero due to a few acts of bravery which he did unintentionally. This movie will make you laugh a lot.
10) Chengiz
- Actors: Jeet, Sushmita Chatterjee, Rohit Roy
- Director: Rajesh Ganguly
About the movie: This movie is about a boy named Joydev and how he developed a criminal empire in 1990s Kolkata (at that time called Calcutta). Bengali star Jeet played the lead role extremely well. This action thriller movie was released in Hindi as well.
11) Fatafati
- Actors: Ritabhari Chakraborty, Abir Chatterjee, Swastika Dutta
- Director: Aritra Mukherjee
About the movie: This movie is about an ordinary woman, Phullora Bhaduri, played by Ritabhari Chakraborty. Pullora is a small-town seamstress who goes on to become a plus-sized influencer named Ms Fatafati. Directed by Aritra Mukherjee, it is one of the best Bengali movies of 2023.
12) Byomkesh O Durgo Rohosyo
- Key Actors: Deepak Adhikari (Dev), Rukmini Maitra, Rajatava Dutta, Ambarish Bhattacharya
- Director: Birsa Dasgupta
About the movie: The story revolves around Byomkesh, a “truth seeker” (a detective). In this movie, we see the mysterious murder of a historian, Ishan Chandra Majumder. The core of the movie is how Byomkesh and Ajit try to demystify the real reason behind the series of deaths in the Majumdar family.