The Big City 1963
After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
Yusuf, a brutal underworld kingpin, clashes with a relentless cop as a mysterious vigilante wages war on crime. As loyalties blur and vengeance builds, a high-stakes battle unfolds where justice teeters-hero, villain and avenger converge.
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Some of them seek a release, while others do not seem to want the night to end.
This is about psychology of artistes and the varied motivations that drive them. With music being the central theme, the film revolves around the live of the folk musician Birbhum, Jhakshu.
Endearingly realist love story between a prostitute and a thief. Rajani (Roy), a streetwalker, shelters the thief Aghor (So. Chatterjee) but he steals her money.
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.
On a stormy evening, two strangers arrive at Bibhutibhushan's ancestral home. As rain pours outside, the men exchange mysterious stories of a greedy woman's spirit bound to her jewels, a mystic caught between power and peace, and a conman whose perfect crime takes a dark turn.
Dev is a high school drop out from and a worthless village lad. He is hell bent on getting married. But the girl he wants to marry rejects him stating that he doesn't have college education. Dev, who is clever and street-smart decides to go to Kolkata for further education. While travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Kolkata, he meets Riya (and falls in love with her. A city gangster, Rudra,is in love with her and blackmails her to marry him. He beats anyone moving closely with Riya. Meanwhile, henchmen of the dreaded chieftain Dubai Keshto, from Dubai, are looking for Dev in the city.
Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne are banished from their respective villages for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three boons. How will they succeed in preventing the war between Halla and Shundi which is looming large?
The movie Pushpadhanu is based on human relations and sentiments.
A chirpy and jovial teenager, Mehul, whose higher secondary finals are at the doorstep while her infatuation over her tutor cum neighbour Babai da, is in ascend. He is an exceptional student and the gem of the neighbourhood. On the day of Holi, Mehul mixes sindoor in the colour to play with Babai da. Unknowingly, Babai da pours the colour over her head signifying the holy "sindoor-daan" custom. But, catastrophe strikes when Babai da commits suicide under undisclosed circumstances which leaves Mehul's world in utter chaos. The journey of Mehul's unspoken love turning into the bindings of Babai Da's better half is the story of PARINEETA.
Kolkata police detective Shabor Dasgupta sets out to solve the murder case of Mitali Ghosh, a woman with a messy past. Her ex-husband Mithu Mitra, ex-boyfriend Pantu and friend Samiran are the prime suspects and so is her cousin Joyeeta. His investigation reveals a complex web of relationships gone sour that gives almost everyone a good motive.
A young Bengali detective in London delves into a century-old legend of a deadly hound, uncovering dark secrets and unexpected suspects in a race to solve the mystery before it claims another life.
A jobless unambitious and lonely Suvo and a lonely teacher Mistu live in the same locality. In Suvo`s imagination, they meet and talk every day. But when she gets married to Somnath, he is hurt. Believing their meetings were true, he still waits for her in his dream and reality. In reality, she hangs herself.
An aged widow from a village moves to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent political violence.
In "Deep Fridge" both Swarnava (Abir) and Mili (Tnusree) are victims of this vicious, prejudiced idea of a perfectly happy marriage. Will they be able to seek closure post their divorce and see things with more clarity in an effort to build a guilt free future for both of them separately which is fair to their only child Tatai.
A citified executive meets an idealistic journalist who challenges his values as he negotiates with tribal peoples to acquire their land for mining.
A Bangla political drama featuring Mosharraf Karim and Tasnia Farin in lead roles.
Prafulla is beautiful and righteous but is mistreated by her in laws because of her poverty. Prafulla comes to a fortune by chance and is guided by Bhabani Pathak, a nationalistic religious leader to use this fortune in the cause of justice. She is trained rigorously and becomes a bandit queen wrapped in mystery and even fights back Colonial British forces to safeguard villagers.She becomes the legendary Debi Chowdhurani. Gradually incidents take such a turn that her erstwhile tormentors, i.e. her in laws come under her power and the movie ends with reconciliation.
Shiva is a 2002 Bengali film directed by Zillur Rahman and starring Prosenjit Chatterjee as the titular character.