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Tag Archives: Bengali
Red Door AKA Lal Darja (1997) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Champa, Raisul Islam Asad, Sunetra Banerjee
Dr. Nabin Datta is a prominent dentist in Calcutta, 47, disengaged, with little affect Read More »
The Lady of the House AKA Bariwali (2000) Rituparno Ghosh, Kirron Kher, Chiranjit, Sudiptaa Chakraborty
A lonely middle-aged woman is forced by circumstance to let out her house to a film crew. Read More »
Cloud Capped Star AKA Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) Kamaleswar Mukherjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee
To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon Read More »
Runaway AKA Bari Theke Paliye (1958) Ritwik Ghatak, Param Bharak Lahiri, Padmadevi, Gyanesh Mukherjee
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. Read More »
Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo AKA Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) Ritwik Ghatak, Tripti Mitra, Shaonli Mitra, Sugata Burman
Nilkantha, an alcoholic frustrated intellectual, suddenly finds himself out of the street. Read More »
The Cloud-Capped Star AKA Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) Ritwik Ghatak, Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee
“Meghe Dhaka Tara” tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class Read More »
Distance AKA Dooratwa (1979) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Mamata Shankar, Pradip Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee
Mandar (Pradip Mukherjee) is an ex-revolutionary turned college lecturer. Read More »
The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha AKA Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) Satyajit Ray, Tapan Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. Read More »
Guerrilla (2011) Nasiruddin Yousuff, Joya Ahsan, Ferdous Ahmed, Shampa Reza
Bilkis Banu, lost her husband Hasan on the bloody night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him Read More »
Sagina Mahato (1971) Tapan Sinha, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Anil Chatterjee
Sagina Mahato, a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against Read More »
The Elephant God AKA Joi Baba Felunath (1979) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares Read More »
Four Chapters AKA Char Adhyay (1997) Kumar Shahani, Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Nandini Ghosal, Kaushik Gopal
Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s last novel, Char Adhyay is set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. Read More »
A River Called Titas AKA Titas Ekti Nodir Naam (1973) Ritwik Ghatak, Rosy Samad, Farid Ali, Fakrul Hasan Boiragi
A fisherman, Kishore, marries Basanti when he visits a nearby village. Read More »
Kanchenjungha (1962) Satyajit Ray, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Pahadi Sanyal
Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills Read More »