A matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is going by train to collect an acting award. Read More »
Tag Archives: Bengali
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 »
The Descent/Ascent (1963) Agradoot, Sabitri Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhury, Asha Devi
Uttarayan is a film depicting the effects of the second world war on a man’s life and in family. Read More »
The Big City (1963) Satyajit Ray, Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri
Calcutta in the early 1960’s. Bhambal supports his wife Arati, his parents, and two children. Read More »
Shelter of the Wings (1994) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Shankar Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rajit Kapoor
Lakha comes from a family of bird catchers, but questions the value of catching birds. Read More »
The Zoo (1967) Satyajit Ray, Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The story revolves around a retired judge, Mr. Nishanath Sen, who stays at a farm house called Golap Colony (The Rose Colony) at the outskirts of Calcutta. Read More »
Aparajito (1956) Satyajit Ray, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Lalchand Banerjee, Drama
After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Read More »
The Stranger (1991) Satyajit Ray, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Bikram Bhattacharya, Drama
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman’s long-lost uncle. Read More »