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Tag Archives: Bengali
Distance / 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 / 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 »
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 »
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 »
Parashuram / 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 »