Original Story: Saradindu Banerjee
Music: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Sailen Mukherjee, Subhendu Chatterjee
Award: Best Direction, West Bengal Government, 1968

****Chiriakhana is a minor ray film rarely seen outside Bengal. A whodunit, the story revolves around a private detective Byomkesh Bakshi (Uttam Kumar) solving two murders.

The action takes place in a colony outside Calcutta, set up for the benefit of outcasts by a retired judge, who is also director of the colony. He contacts detective Byomkesh to conduct an investigation. The director is soon assassinated. This is followed with murder of a deaf-mute witness…

As Byomkesh solves the murders, he tells his associates that he could solve the mystery because he trusts no one. That is absolutely no one except his pet snake.