Srabanti to Play a 60-Year-Old Sleuth in hoichoi’s Mystery Series ‘Thakumar Jhuli’

hoichoi unveils the first look of Srabanti from its upcoming Bengali mystery series Thakumar Jhuli, marking her second-ever collaboration with the platform. Directed by Ayan Chakraborti, the series is all set to premiere this March and promises a fresh, emotionally rich take on the detective genre, one that brings generations, perspectives and investigative styles together.

In the revealed look, Srabanti appears as Girijabala Sanyal, a sharp-minded woman in her mid-60s from Bishnupur. Calm composed and deeply observant, Girijabala’s life has been shaped by discipline, dignity, and quiet resilience. Widowed early and later devastated by the loss of her only son, she has learned to observe more than she speaks an instinct that makes her an exceptional reader of people and situations. Her solitude is gently offset by her three constant companions-her cats Hori, Bela and Phonte, who add a quiet quirk to her otherwise restrained world.

The narrative shifts when her granddaughter Jaggaseni (played by Divyani Mondal), a criminal psychology student and the last surviving member of the Sanyal family returns to India to attend the wedding of her close friend Amrapali Singha Roy, a member of the influential Singha Roy political family. When Amrapali dies suddenly during the ceremony under suspicious circumstances, it is Girijabala who first senses that something doesn’t add up, refusing to dismiss the death as an accident and pushing for deeper scrutiny.

A trip to Bishnupur of Jaggaseni for a wedding becomes a turning point, as she decides to stay back until the case is resolved, drawing Girijabala back into her long-dormant role.

What follows is a new-age investigative journey where a grandmother and granddaughter work together to uncover the truth. Not a conventional whodunit, Thakumar Jhuli becomes a meeting point of generations, where lived experience, emotional intelligence, and quiet intuition intersect with academic understanding, modern questioning, and Gen-Z logic. Girijabala and Jaggaseni decode not just clues, but people navigating silences, relationships, and buried motives.

Blending suspense with emotion and generational dynamics, the series reimagines the Bengali detective genre, where solving the crime is only part of the story and understanding human behaviour becomes equally crucial.

Thakumar Jhuli streams this March, exclusively on hoichoi.