
Killbill Society (Bengali)
2h 5m
April 11, 2025
Killbill Society: Amader Kono Shakha Nei Killbill Society: We have no branches) is a 2025 Indian Bengali-language black comedy romantic thriller film written and directed by Srijit Mukherji.[2] Produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films, the film is a spiritual sequel to Mukherji’s film Hemlock Society (2012). It stars Parambrata Chatterjee and Koushani Mukherjee in lead roles, while Biswanath Basu, Sandipta Sen and Anindya Chatterjee play other pivotal roles.
Inspired by a real-life incident involving Angelina Jolie, the film revolves around Poorna, who hires a contract killer to kill herself. The film was announced in February 2025, also commencing its principal photography the same month. It marks the eighth collaboration between Mukherji and Chatterjee. Music of the film is composed by Anupam Roy, Ranajoy Bhattacharjee and Tamalika Golder, while Indraadip Dasgupta provides its score. Indranath Marick handled the cinematography and Sanglap Bhowmick edited the film.
Killbill Society was theatrically released on 11 April 2025, coinciding with Pohela Baishakh.
Premise
After the surfacing of her intimate video clip on the Internet, Poorna Aich, a social media influencer and rising actress, faces backlash from the society as well as her own family. Hopelessly, Aich tries to commit suicide but fails to do so. So, she decides to hire a contract killer to kill herself. Ananda Kar returns as Mrityunjoy Kar, a contract killer who works under Killbill Society. However, rather than killing her right away, Kar begins to spend time with her and eventually falls in love with her. As he navigates healing and love, the story challenges our understanding of purpose and existence.
Killbill Society – Cast
- Parambrata Chatterjee as Mrityunjoy Kar / Ananda Kar
- Koushani Mukherjee as Poorna Aich
- Nidhi Mahato as Young Poorna
- Biswanath Basu as Petkata Shaw
- Sandipta Sen as Sunayna Aich, Poorna’s Elder Sister
- Anindya Chatterjee as Poorna’s ex-boyfriend
- Arijita Mukhopadhyay as Shrishti, Poorna’s PA
- Tulika Basu as Poorna’s mother
- Mousumi Saha
- Soumen Chakraborty as Ontorip Karmakar
Special appearances
- Ankush Hazra as himself
- Ananya Chatterjee as herself
- Shruti Das as herself
- Angana Roy as herself
- Somak Ghosh as himself
- Nilanjana Banerjee
- Roshni Bhattacharya as herself
- Shatarup Ghosh as himself
- Kiran Dutta(The Bong Guy) as himself
Production
The film was announced on 2 February 2025, on the occasion of Saraswati Puja by Shree Venkatesh Films. Marking the sequel after 13 years of Hemlock Society, the announcement poster revealed the lead cast of Parambrata Chatterjee and Koushani Mukherjee, along with the name of the music directors – Anupam Roy, Ranajoy Bhattacharjee and Tamalika Golder. The release date was announced with another poster on 28 February 2025, as a part of SVF’s new slate announcement event “Golper Parbon 1432”.
Killbill Society – Development
Mukherji has drawn inspiration from a shocking real-life incident involving Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. The core concept of the film will be centered around Jolie’s interview in which she mentioned that instead of attempting a suicide, she hired a gunman to kill her. It would have saved her family from any kind of guilt. But the shooter gave her time to rethink her decision and eventually, she changed her opinion and decided to not die.
The first look of the principal characters were revealed on 13 March 2025. A character intro of Mrityunjoy Kar, the protagonist, was released on 15 March 2025. The first character poster was dropped on 21 March 2025. Srijit Mukherjee revealed that he fixed the title of the film based on the idea that there are people who “kill” and then raise a “bill”. A reference to paid killing, hence the title was kept “Killbill Society”. Parambrata’s bald look was finalised in order to maintain continuancy with Hemlock Society, in which he was affected with a deadly disease and was losing hair. That disease has exemplified over the years and now he has gone bald in Killbill Society.
Killbill Society – Casting
The director Srijit Mukherjee initially wanted to re-cast the lead pair of Parambrata Chatterjee and Koel Mallick from Hemlock Society. Since Koel had became mother for the second time recently, Srijit Mukherjee had to find a new face to cast opposite Parambrata. First the role was offered to Mimi Chakraborty. Reports suggest that she agreed for the role but came off the board as she had issue with a kissing scene in the movie. Then the role went to Koushani Mukherjee and she was finalised. Although the director later mentioned in an interview that Koushani was his first choice for the film. Anindya Chatterjee joined the cast in January 2025, marking his collaboration with Mukherji, 11 years after Chotushkone.
On 27 March 2025, the makers revealed that the film will have a number of cameo appearances including Ankush Hazra, Ananya Chatterjee, Shruti Das, Angana Roy, Somak Ghosh and Roshni Bhattacharya, thus carrying forward the style of its predecessor Hemlock Society.[28] Ankush Hazra will make his cameo in a song sequence in the film.[29]
Filming
Filming started from 6th February 2025. It was completely shot in West Bengal, particularly in Kolkata and North Bengal. Major parts of the film has been filmed around the Victoria Memorial, Vidyasagar Setu, Lower Circular Road cemetery, Prinsep Ghat and the banks of Teesta river. Koushani revealed in an interview that it was very difficult to please Mukherjee with one shot. Being strict with precision to minute details, he took multiple retakes and didn’t proceed unless a scene seemed perfect to him. So, the cast and crew could get only 9 hours of sleep amid a continuous 60 hours schedule from 14th February to 18th February 2025.
Koushani said in an interview that she resorted to revisiting the painful memories of her mother’s death, in order to express raw grief and emotions in the film. She used Stanislavski’s recall technique, where the actor recalls the most emotionally taxing moment in their life, to portray deep grief. Parambrata revealed in an interview that Srijit Mukherjee asked him to give him a long and suitable date, during which he will not be committed to any other film. Primarily because he would be showcasing a bald look in the film. Since Koushani was nervous regarding a kissing scene in the film with Parambrata, the director undertook the shot in a single take. The scene was shot under the supervision of an intimacy coordinator hired from Mumbai.