Alinagarer Golokdhadha (English: The Maze of Alinagar) is an adventure mystery film, released on 20 April 2018, directed by Sayantan Ghosal, produced by Rutrum Juin, starring Anirban Bhattacharya and Parno Mittra in lead roles. It is film collaboration for a Bengali movie between Eros International and Champion Movies.
Plot
In 1990, the last surviving member of a family of landlords in Murshidabad auctions off his valuable possessions to the local villagers, for very low returns. Among those valuables was an old sword, which was surprisingly bought by Somnath Das for 1000 rupees. Soon he is approached by a businessman, Amirchand Mittal, who offers him 10 lakh rupees in exchange of the sword. Somnath declines the offer. Amirchand is followed by a police officer, who in turn is killed by the businessman's goons. Unfortunately, Somnath becomes the unwitting eye-witness of the murder. The goons follow him and shoot at him, but he escapes, only to be run over by a car in the highway.
In the present day, Soham and Brishti are taking a tour of Kolkata, while Soham explains its histories. He is interested in a historical research of Bengal and Kolkata, to which end Brishti recommends him to her father Ashutosh Singha, a renowned historian and author of Banglar Ayna, a book on Bengal's history, for a scholarship. Ashutosh is being interviewed by Jahnabi, an independent documentary film maker, but his mind is disturbed. He is being sent a number of unnamed chits, each stating the circumstances in which the conspirators against Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, died. Brishti brushes these off as pranks, but Soham deduces that it has something to do with her father's book. Soham is introduced to Ashutosh at the latter's house, and Ashutosh agrees upon granting Soham the scholarship, and requests him to stay at his house only. Soham is introduced to Sakkhi Gopal, the caretaker of the house and a distant relative of Ashutosh.
Ashutosh tells Soham about his friend Somnath, who was killed in a road accident 27 years ago. Interestingly, Somnath was also a student of Bengal's history. Just before his death, he had told Ashutosh about a gift he wished to send him, but due to its unprecedented historical value, he has hidden it somewhere, the clue to which he had sent to Ashutosh in a letter. Soham is immediately interested in the riddle, which hints at a particular house and Warren Hastings' court case against Maharaja Nandakumar. With a little help from an old priest, Soham cracks the riddle, which leads him and Brishti to the house of Somnath's professor, also named Nandakumar. The professor, now almost blind due to old age, reveals that Somnath had sent him a letter as well, including a second riddle, telling him to give it to the person who comes to his house after solving the first riddle. The second letter says something about Dinabandhu Mitra's Neel Darpan, its translation to English by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the arrest of Reverend James Long for publishing the same (the British Government had declared the play as seditious). Meanwhile, Brishti's brother Abhiraj, a spoilt brat, has huge loans from Amirchand, who tells him to deliver a nose-ring, belonging to the family deity, which is a prized possession of the family.
Soham and Brishti's quest brings them to James Long Sarani, where the owner of one "Dinabandhu Mistanna Bhandar" (sweet shop) performs the act of burying a ledikeni sweet in the ground. He reveals that his father, the previous owner of the shop, knew Somnath well, and was told by him to do this in front of the person who solved the second riddle. Soham deduces that burying a ledikeni stands for the grave of Lady Canning in Barrackpore, since the sweet was specially made on the occasion of her arrival in India. Soham and Brishti travel there, and find a gardener whom Somnath knew and had also given a riddle. The gardener was about to tell Soham how he seemed to be related to Somnath, when suddenly he is shot dead. Brishti and Soham escape with the letter. Brishti suddenly sees Jahnabi, who she had previously spotted following them while entering Nandakumar's house.