A fisherman, Kishore, marries Basanti when he visits a nearby village. Read More »
Tag Archives: Bengali
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 »
The Lonely Wife AKA Charulata (1964) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee
Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage Read More »
Days and Nights in the Forest AKA Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) Satyajit Ray, Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal
A group of four middle class workers in India take the week off to have a holiday. Read More »
The Branches of the Tree AKA Shakha Proshakha (1990) Satyajit Ray, Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
An aged patriarch (Ajit Bannerjee), popular for his scrupulous honesty, has a heart attack in the middle of a town gathering in his honour. Read More »
The Holy Man AKA Mahapurush (1965) Satyajit Ray, Charuprakash Ghosh, Robi Ghosh, Prasad Mukherjee
A retired lawyer meets a holy man Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his assistant (Robi Ghosh) Read More »
A Tale of a Naughty Girl AKA Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar
Based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, the central idea developed by director Dasgupta Read More »
Letter from the Wife AKA Streer Patra (1972) Purnendu Pattrea, Nimu Bhowmick, Ashim Chakarbarti, Santosh Dutta
A worthy companion to Ray’s Charulata, the film is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
The Expedition AKA Abhijaan (1962) Satyajit Ray, Waheeda Rehman, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta
When a corrupt cop takes away Narsingh’s taxi license after an illegal car race Read More »
The Adversary AKA Pratidwandi (1970) Satyajit Ray, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee
A young man, newly graduated from college is unable to find meaningful employment. Read More »
Parashuram AKA The Man with the Axe (1979) Mrinal Sen, Arun Mukherjee, Bibhas Chakraborty, Sreela Majumdar
Carrying an Axe on his shoulder and preserving the strange memory of his encounter with a tiger Read More »
The Hero (1966) Satyajit Ray, Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen
A matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is going by train to collect an acting award. Read More »
Interview (1971) Mrinal Sen, Karuna Bannerjee, Ranjit Mallick
A dawn to dusk account of a young man in search of a job. Read More »
Calcutta 71 (1971) Mrinal Sen, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy
A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Read More »
The Citizen (1952) Ritwik Ghatak, Ajit Banerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu
Ramu,a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. Read More »