Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana (English: The Menagerie)[1] is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film, based on the story of the same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

The film was remade in Hindi as a television series Byomkesh Bakshi with Rajit Kapoor aired in Doordarshan.

Private detective Byomkesh Bakshi and his best friend and partner, author Ajit Kumar Banerjee are chatting when a new client, Mr Nishanath Sen, knocks on the door.

He is searching for the details of an old Bengali movie song ('Bhalobasar tumi ki jano') and the actress who sang it, Sunayana, as he thinks that she is hiding somewhere inside his huge nursery, Golap Colony, under a fake identity.

Suspecting Sunayana's role in Murari's murder, a court issued an arrest warrant against her, but she disappeared and her whereabouts are unknown.

After a thorough investigation, Byomkesh realises that the case will not prove easy to solve, as there are several motives and people behind Sen's death.

Shortly after the latest round of interrogations, Brajo comes to Byomkesh's house and confesses about his lord's personal life.

Many years ago, Sen sentences Damayanti's husband Lal Singh to death for a criminal case.

Finally Banalakshmi confesses that her husband exploited her beauty to make money and how he murdered Murari, Sen, and Panu to destroy all the evidences of his criminality.