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Agontuk

2024 film by Sumon Dhar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ126520857
Source-derived summary

Agontuk is a 2024 Bangladeshi Bengali language psychological thriller film. It is dialogued and directed by Sumon Dhar, story and screenplay done by Sumon Dhar and Anisur Rahman Mishu, and production by Kamal Hasan under the banner of The Abhi Kathachitra. It was distributed by Zahid Hasan Abhi under the banner of The Abhi Kathachitra. Shamol Mawla and Puja Cherry played the lead roles and Mili Bashar, Masum Bashar, Shahed Ali, Hindoi Rai, Anwar Shahin and others played supporting roles in the film. It was released on 17 June 2024.

Cast

Shamol Mawla as Topu

Puja Cherry as Srabani Akter "Iti"

Mili Bashar as Srabani's mother

Masum Bashar as Srabani's father

Shahed Ali as Inspector Mahatab

Hindoi Rai

Anwara Shahi

Shikha Khan Mou

Bithi Rani Sarker

Production

The shooting of this film was completed in 2022. The release of the film was delayed due to non-completion of post-production. On Monday (June 10, 2024), Agontuk received an uncut censor.

Release

The film was planned to release on Valentine's Day of 2024. But this film was not released again because the film Dard was released.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Agontuk” is 2024 film by Sumon Dhar. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Agontuk, film and Sumon, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Agontuk, film and Sumon is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2024 film by Sumon Dhar” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126520857. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Agontuk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.