# Checkmate (Indian TV series)

Checkmate is an Indian Bengali television thriller series which aired on Star Jalsha from 21 January 2012 to 15 June 2012.

## Plot

The show is a thriller with the protagonist of detective Mrinalini Dastidar (played by Aparajita Ghosh Das). She, along with her associates, solve mysteries.

## Cast

* Saurabh Chatterjee as Amolendu Dostidar
* Aparajita Ghosh Das as Detective Mrinalini Dostidar
* Amitabh Bhattacharjee as Aditya Sen
* Suchismita Chowdhury as Aporna
* Rupa Bhattacharjee as ACP Sreeja Sen
* Rimjhim Mitra as ACP Sreeja Sen
* Rajanya Mitra as Esha
* Indrani Basu as Mira
* Kaushik Bhattacharya as Hirok
* Somjita Bhattacharya as Madhuja's Friend
* Jayanta Dutta Burman as Derek
* Anindya Chakraborty as Kaushik Mukherjee
* Soma Banerjee as Anjalimashi
* Saheb Chatterjee as Rohit (Goenda Keutey)
* Swaralipi Chatterjee as Ritu
* Biplab Dasgupta as OC Dutta
* Gautam Dey as Adheer Sinha
* Kaushik Ghosh as Amit Lahiri
* Rajesh Kr Chattopadhyay as Sanjoy
* Ratna Ghoshal as Sanjoy's Mother
* Jagannath as Amitabha Choudhury
* Ekavali Khanna as Avantika (2 episodes, 2012)
* Anusuya Majumdar as Julia Aunty
* Samrat Mukherjee as Barun Sen
* Sudip Mukherjee as Neel Roy Burman
* Pushpita Mukhopadhyay as Protima
* Saptarshi Ray as Akash
* Sayantani Sengupta as Anita
* Soumyo as Joy
* Zoyeb as Imon
* Aparna as Ela
* Arindoi Bagchi as Jahor
* Diganta Bagchi as Partho
* Anindya Banerjee as Aniruddho Ghosh (Public Prosecutor)
* Joyjit Banerjee as Shyam
* Kamalika Banerjee as Dr. Bonolota Dutta
* Runa Banerjee as Lalita Sen
* Suman Bannerjee as bhoy
* Arghya Basu as Anirban
* Damini Basu as Shiuli
* Tulika Basu as Kasturi Samonto
* Dipanjan Bhattacharya as Sumit Sanyal
* Joy Bhattacharyya as Bibek
* Titas Bhowmik as Rojoni
* Riju Biswas as Suresh Bagh
* Abhrajit Chakraborty as Shekhar Dasgupta
* Arun Chakraborty as Mike
* Bobby Chakraborty as Ranodeb Burman
* Kaushik Chakraborty as Gautam
* Kushal Chakraborty as Aniruddho Bose
* Subhadra Chakraborty as Madhobi
* Aditi Chatterjee as Shompa Dasgupta
* Bhaswar Chatterjee as Promit Guha
* Debjani Chattopadhyay as Dolon
* Mita Chatterjee as Shushiladebi
* Shubhomoy Chatterjee as Manohor
* Sonali Chowdhury as Ilina Chakraborty
* Dwaipayan Das as Arpan Dutta
* Manali Dey as Gouri
* Debjani Deb as Jonaki
* Pradip Dhar as Prottoy Biswas a.k.a. Potka
* Debolina Dutta as Advocate Ahona Ghosh
* Joymala Ganguly as Nondini Sen
* Pijush Ganguly as Akhil
* Nandini Ghosal as Mrs. Sanyal
* Chandrayee Ghosh as Ananya
* Kaushik Ghosh as Amit Lahiri
* Pallavi Gogoi as Marathon Organizer
* Rupsha Guha as Urmi
* Moumita Gupta as Supti Roy Burman
* Dipanwita Hazari as Dr. Debika Sanyal
* Anindita Saha Kapileswari as Sharmila
* Tania Kar as Meghna
* Kalyani Mondal as Mrs. Bonik
* Baisakhi Marjit as Pishimoni
* Rana Mitra as Raju Das
* Rupanjana Mitra as Mohini
* Arpita Mukherjee as Kaushik Mukherjee's wife
* Mrinal Mukherjee as Dip Ganguly
* Neel Mukherjee as Sukanto Choudhury
* Sarbari Mukherjee as Pamela
* Swagata Mukherjee as Mrs. Bagchi
* Piyali Munshi as Indira
* Neel as Anchor Chonchol
* Komal Nishad Mitra as Ayesha
* Manoj Ojha as Shumanto
* Priyam as Indra
* Milon Roychoudhury as Broto
* Shagnik as Rupesh
* Shayanton as Pollob
* Arindam Sil as Mallar
* Lopamudra Sinha as Rupa
* Manasi Sinha as Nondona

## Crew
### Direction

* Biswajit Ganguly
* Ravindra Geetha Nambiar
* Ratnodeep Ghosh
* Mandira Mitra
* Anindya Sarkar
* Romit Ojha

### Creative Direction

* Mandira Mitra
* Mitali Bhattacharya

### Script

* Moushumi Choudhury
* Sharmila Mukherjee
* Koli Mitra
* Shayon Choudhury
* Romit Ojha
* Saurabh Sengupta
* Angikar Choudhury
* Kunal Sengupta

### Cinematography

* Rupanjan Pal
* Kiranmoy Bhuniya

### Editing

* Debashish Bhattacharya
* Niladri Dutta

### Art Direction

* Narendra Ojha

### Sound Management

* Ranjan Pandey

### Music Department

* Gaurab Chatterjee ... background score / title music composed
* Jina ... title music: sung
* Jojo ... title music: sung
* Chandan Raychowdhury ... musical director / title music composed
* Indra Roy ... background score
* Srijato ... title music composed