Bhootu
Genre	Comedy Drama
Written by	Story Sahana Raghuvir Shekhawat Damini Joshi Dialogues Malova Majumdar Screenplay Ashrunu Moitra
Directed by	Srijit Roy
Creative director	Riya Sengupta
Starring	Arshiya Mukherjee
Theme music composer	Upaali Chatterjee
Composer	Dony Hazarika
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	301
Production
Producers	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni
Production location	Kolkata
Cinematography	Hanif Sheikh
Editors	Dharmesh Patel Pramod kunder
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Distributor	Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Release
Original network	Zee Bangla
Picture format	SDTV 576i HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Dolby Digital
Original release	14 March 2016 (2016-03-14) – 25 February 2017 (2017-02-25)
Chronology
Related	Bhutu

Bhootu is an Indian Bengali language children's comedy-drama television series that aired on Zee Bangla. The series revolves around a friendly girl ghost, "Bhootu", who always tries to help others, often causing light mischief and mayhem in the process. The character is based on Casper the Friendly Ghost. The show was rebooted in Hindi for Zee TV and premiered on 21 August 2017. The show stars Arshiya Mukherjee, Sana Amin Sheikh, Kinshuk Mahajan, Akanksha Chamola and Anjali Priya.

Plot

Bhootu is the story based on cute little ghost. The show revolves around Bhootu/Pihu, a 7-year old friendly ghost. She loves to play with friends and she is very close to her mother. But she is very sad and disheartened that no one can see her. Meanwhile, Gopal (Krishna) comes to be with her as a companion and he promises that he will make her to meet her mother.

Cast

Main

• Arshiya Mukherjee as Bhutu Majumder / Putu Majumder, Bhutu's younger sister; Bhutu's lookalike; only on final episode^[1][2]

Recurring

• Subrata Guha Roy as Johor Dalal
• Animesh Bhaduri as Deepen Majumder as aka Deepu: Bhutu's father.
• Gita Mukherjee as Bhutu's paternal Grandmother (Thammi)
• Mimi Dutta as Sudha; Bhutu's mother
• Riyanka Dasgupta as Mallika Majumder aka Mishtu.(Mishti pisi)
• Ritoja Majumder / Sanjuktaa Roy Chowdhury as Krishna Majumder; Bhutu's paternal aunt(Jemma)
• Judhajit Banerjee as Bhutu's paternal uncle. (Jethu)
• Samriddho as Logence; Bhutu's close friend.
• Suman Banerjee as Prabol: Bhutu's maternal uncle.(Mama)
• Arpita Dutta Chowdhury as Swapna: Probal's wife, Bhutu's maternal aunt.(Mami)
• Saheli Ghosh Roy as Prabol and Swapna's daughter ; Bhutu's maternal cousin
• Dwaipayan Das as Shayan; Nephew of Bhutu's paternal grandfather (Kannakaku)
• Avery Singha Roy as Arna: Shayan's wife, a karate player.(Karate kaki)
• Sampurna Mondal as Ratri's daughter
• Priyam Chakraborty as Borna; Ayon's wife.
• Soma Banerjee as Guruma
• Pallavi Mukherjee as Chaapa: a maid
• Ashmita Chakraborty as Munni: a maid
• Nayana Bandyopadhyay as Minu
• Arnab Vadra as Shibu Chor, Minu's brother (Pocha Rongkaku)
• Anindita Sarkar as Renu Pisi/ Neki pisi Thamma; Bhutu's maternal grand aunt
• Chaitali Chakraborty as Churni Pisi / Ragi pisi Thamma: Bhutu's elder grandaunt
• Kheyali Dastidar as Pune Pisi
• Prantik Banerjee as Boidujjo Bhowmik
• Riya Ganguly Chakraborty as Ratri: Shayan's sister
• Ranjini Chattopadhyay as Bhutu's maternal grandmother.(Dida)
• Basanti Chatterjee as Mrinal aka Meni: Bhutu's maternal grandaunt.(Masi Thammi)
• Alivia Sarkar as Tania; Bonna's sister, Somu's love interest, Bhutu's Ragi aunty
• Sourav Chatterjee as Somen Majumder aka Somu: Bhutu's paternal uncle.(Kakai)
• Sourav Das as Johor's nephew
• Amitava Bhattacharyya as Doctor
• Lily Chakravarty as Thummum; grandmother-in-law of Madhobi, Mouli and Lekha; paternal grandmother of Aniket, Ishani and Nirjhor.
• Anindita Raychaudhury as Madhobi / Madhu (as called by her husband) / Mummum; Bhutu's foster mother
• Biresh Chakraborty / Rajiv Bose as Aniket, Madhobi's husband; elder brother of Ishani and Nirjhor
• Manali Dey as Mouli / Bordidi; eldest daughter of third tenant family; Nirjhor's wife
• Anindya Chatterjee as Nirjhor / Bheeturaam Kaku; younger brother of Aniket and Ishani; Mouli's husband
• Sneha Chatterjee as Ishani/Ojha Pisi, sister of Aniket and Nirjhor, sister-in-law of Madhobi and Mouli
• Mou Bhattacharya as the mother of Ishani, Aniket and Nirjhor
• Pritha Bandopadhyay as Roma; Lekha's mother-in-law; paternal aunt of Aniket, Ishani and Nirjhor
• Elfina Mukherjee as Lekha
• Aritra Dutta as Roma's son; Lekha's husband
• Priya Malakar as Roma's daughter; Lekha's sister-in-law
• Boni Mukherjee as school teacher
• Ambarish Bhattacharya as school teacher
• Palash Ganguly as Palash;Mouli's former fiancé
• Moumita Chakrabarty / Dola Chakraborty as Konok; Mouli's stepmother. Bhutu's Gol Jethi
• Sakshi Dona Saha as Mouli's youngest step-sister
• Manasi Sinha as Logence's Pisi Thammi, paternal grandaunt
• Shraboni Bonik as Reetu; Logence's aunt (Jemma) and Rupsha's mother
• Rohit Mukherjee as Anup; Logence's uncle (Jethu) and Rupsha's father
• Fahim Mirza as Asit; Logence's father and Rupsha's uncle
• Anindita Bhattacharya as Tonu; Logence's mother and Rupsha's aunt
• Somjita Bhattacharya as Jilipi Masi: Maids of house
• Swarnadipto Ghosh as Amit; Logence and Rupsha's uncle (Kaka)
• Kanyakumari Mukherjee as Rumi; Logence and Rupsha's paternal aunt (Mishti Pisi)
• Aditya Roy as Bikram; Rumi's lover
• Anindya Banerjee as Ronodeep
• Goutam Mukherjee as Ronodeep's Paternal Uncle, Anup's Boss
• Ishita Chatterjee as Ronodeep's mother

Broadcast

This show has been remade in Kannada as Anjali the Friendly Ghost which aired on Zee Kannada. The show is dubbed in Hindi is telecast on Zee Anmol as Laddoo.^[3] It also aired in Malayalam named as Vellinakshathram on Zee Keralam.

Adaptations

References

External links

• Bhootu at ZEE5