Bhog (Season 1)
Bhog is a 2025 Indian Bengali supernatural thriller web series, based on an eponymous novel written by Avik Sarkar. Directed by Parambrata Chattopadhyay, it was released on the Bengali language OTT platform Hoichoi on 1 May 2025. The series stars Anirban Bhattacharya and Parno Mittra in lead roles, Rajatava Dutta and Sudipa Basu in supporting roles and Subhasish Mukhopadhyay in a special appearance.
The story Bhog was also adapted in another feature film by director Rajorshi Dey, titled as Purba Paschim Dakshin Uttar Asbei.
Plot
Atin is a bachelor, who lives with his elderly maid Pushpa di, after his mother died. A private employee, he loves ample social interactions and clubbing after his office hours. But things take a turn in his life after he buys a mysterious brass idol from his friend Subesh’s antique shop at Park Street. He was intrigued by the features of the goddess’ statue, who held a veena in the upper left hand, a kharga in the upper right hand, a human skull in the lower left hand and had her lower right hand posed in the aashirvad mudra. When he inquired Subesh about the goddess’ name, he informed that it was unkown to him too as he received it while acquiring old items from a house since the family was moving out.
Atin starts getting scary dreams every night after bringing the idol to his house. A goddess of green complexion comes to his dreams every night, asking him to feed her and satisfy her hunger. Worried by the these events, he started offering her first flowers and then fruits as bhog. Bhavesh Kaku analysed from its appearance that the idol must be of some Tantric goddess. Him along with Pushpa di warned him from worshipping her as it was an unknown goddess and Atin was unfamiliar with the rituals of her worship. Any mistake could cost him to face the wrath of the goddess. He doesn’t pay heed to their advice and gets indulged in worshipping the idol daily. He becomes eccentric and introverted, thinking about nothing but the goddess.
One day Bhabesh Kaku brought a priest with him to recognize the idol. They were shocked to see Atin performing a demented devotional dance in front of the idol. The priest failed to recognize it and suggested Atin to not worship her without knowing the proper rituals as it might make him face the goddess’ wrath. But Atin, hellbent upon his decision, said that the goddess herself comes in his dreams and speaks to him. Hence he asked them to not interfere in his Maa – chele relationship with the goddess.
One day Atin meets a homeless widow Damri, who stopped his car in the middle of the road asked him for food. After eating, she asked Atin for shelter, to which Atin couldn’t say no. Despite no consent from Pushpa di, Damri starts living with them and enthusiastically prepared bhog and assisted Atin to offer it to the goddess. On the very next day after Damri’s arrival, Atin finds that for the first time, the goddess has eaten his offerings. He believes that there is some magic in Damri’s cooking, since the goddess has been eating his offerings everyday ever since she started cooking it. In the meantime, one day, Pushpa di suddenly disappears. Bhavesh Kaku arranged for a police investigation but it was closed after a few days when Atin absent mindedly, gave permission to the police to shut down the case.
Over time, Atin starts hating social interactions and lost his will to live. Despite feeling like throwing up, he eats the extremely foul smelling food cooked by Damri. Worried for him, Bhabesh Kaku went to Subesh and asked him to take him to the place from where he procured the idol. They met the priest who handed over the idol to Subesh. He informed that the idol is of the ninth of the ten Mahavidyas, goddess Matangi. Being the kulguru of the local zamindar family, his forefathers have worshipped the idol in succession of lineage for hundreds of years. He revealed the story of why the idol was formed and worshipped in the Chakraborty zamindar’s temple. He gave that idol to Subesh without any cost, as Sahashraksh Chakraborty, the initial worshipper of the idol and then zamindar’s brother, had instructed that the idol must be handed over to someone if the family ever moves out of their ancestral house in future, or else danger will befall them. To save Atin from the goddess’ wrath, he said that they should find a sadhu who possess mystical powers. He informed that if a person commits any mistake while worshipping her, a petni belonging to the ten Mahavidyas will enter his life and kill him at the end of 1 lunar phase or 30 days.
On that night while returning from office, Atin stops at a hotel to eat roti, where he meets Krishnananda Maitra. Maitra asked him for a part of his roti which Atin gave without any thoughts. Pleased with his kindness, he gave Atin a locket with a large blue stone in the pendant and adviced him to never take it off. He assured the Maa Mahamaya will always protect him through it. After wearing it, Atin comes back to sanity. For the first time he properly realises that Pushpa di is missing for almost a month. On the next day, which was amavasya, he realises that the goddess has not eaten his offerings from the previous day. Damri assured that she will cook Mohabhog to offer her on that day. Going to the roof of his house, Atin discovers numerous tantric practices have been done there, where birds, cats and mice lay dead. He realises that his house is filled with layers of dust and his clothes haven’t been washed for weeks. After returning home from office, he met Bhavesh kaku outside his home. He said that Damri is a petni and the only way to defeat her is to fight her face to face or else she will sacrifice Atin on that day.
Upon entering the house, they found everything was in shambles. In one room, furnitures were flying and they saw Damri cooking a hand in a pot with fire emitting from her legs. Atin recognized that hand belonged to Pushpa di, when he saw a ring on a finger. Agonised, he rushed towards Damri to avenge Pushpa di’s death. In an attempt to stop Atin, Bhavesh got slapped by Damri and he became unconscious. In a duel between Atin and Damri, Atin got badly bruised. He was forced to take off the locket, after hearing his mother’s voice instructing him to take off the locket, which was nothing but Damri’s maya. When she was about to kill him, he recollected his memories with his mother and grabbed the locket lying slightly away from him, with his last bit of strength. Then he touched it on Damri’s forehead and she got killed. A week later, Bhavesh kaku regains his conscience. On his advice, Atin goes and immerses the idol in the nearby Hooghly river. In a post credit scene, it is shown that two friends are drinking at a river ghat. One of them suddenly notices a goddess asking him to give her food and satiate her hunger, indicating that people will go on getting trapped in goddess Matangi‘s maya unless she is properly worshipped by someone.