Prabuddha Banerjee

Movies

Oti Uttam
Music
The film narrates the story of a PhD scholar, who is pursuing his research on Uttam Kumar. After being rejected by the girl he likes romantically, he decides to bring the spirit of the legendary actor back with the help of his grandson.
Debris of Desire
Music
A petty criminal, who loves a whore and wants to run away with her savings, meets a laid-off factory worker who is desperate to stop his wife from working as a housemaid.
Kaberi Antardhan
Music
It all starts when Mrinmoy Ghosh (Kaushik Sen), the powerful head police officer in Hatimara, Jalpaiguri, known for hunting down Naxal insurgents in his area, is found dead at his residence. Arghya Sen (Prosenjit), a charming middle-aged bachelor, who takes Mrinmoy's son Amartya's art classes, visits their house when the mystery unfolds. On his arrival, he learns that not only has Mrinmoy been killed, but Kaberi Bhattacharya (Srabanti), Mrinmoy's beautiful sister, is also missing! Will the new officer-in-charge, Pritam Singh (Indraneil), be able to help Arghya and Mrinmoy's family track down Kaberi, and decode the clues behind Mrinmoy's murder, in the midst of a politically tumultuous era? Or will the drunk and irresponsible detective Gokul Debnath (Kaushik Ganguly) derail the investigations, and bring unforeseen truths to light?
Lokkhi Chhele
Music
The Indian Bengali film tells us a story about the life of a young doctor who stood against the social superstitions prevalent in the rural areas and is hell bent on bringing in a sea of changes among the villagers.
Ghore Pherar Gaan
Music
The film is an uplifting musical follows the journey of Tora (Ishaa Saha), a girl from the suburbs of Kolkata, to her marital home in London. Tora is in dissonance with the high-flying lives of her NRI doctor husband Ribhu and her council-woman mother-in-law Shanta, and thus starts searching for solace outside the bounds of her home. This is when Imran (Parambrata Chattopadhyay), enters her life and helps her embrace life on her own terms. The film closely portrays the lives of Bengalis in London and the alienation that is felt by new immigrants from abroad.
প্রাণ
Music
Abhijaan
Sound
A tribute to the life and accomplishments of the legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who was a pioneer in Indian cinema with a career spanning seven decades.
Dictionary
Music
Makar Kanti Chatterjee is a semi-educated self-made businessman who tries hard but often fails to communicate in English. On the other hand, his brother-in-law, Suman, gets romantically involved with a woman married to a reticent forest officer, Ashoke Sanyal. The screenplay is based on the story, Baba Hoya and Swami Hoya, by Buddhadeb Guha.
Shilpi
Music
Stages are locked down, theatres are closed, events are stalled but the artiste and the art live on.
Jyeshthoputro
Music
A popular movie star, the eldest son of his parents, returns to his ancestral village for his father's funeral, only to unearth long-hidden complexities within his family.
The Eunuch and the Flute Player
Original Music Composer
Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.
City of Love
Sound Engineer
A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own
City of Love
Music Director
A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own
Phoring
Music Director
An adolescent boy named Phoring growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal. Surrounded by the lush Dooars countryside the town barely survives the shutdown of a factory and its jobless population. Maladjusted and a born loser, Phoring fights the voices in his head he calls God. And then a new teacher ( Doel) arrives in school. Doel opens up his mind to things unknown and just when Phoring starts believing that this is not a dream, Doel disappears abruptly leaving behind a trail of doubt and suspicion. Phoring decides to go looking for her in Kolkata.
You Don't Belong
self
A documentary based on the folk song laal pahaari
Ekti Tarar Khonje
Music
Via Darjeeling
Guitarist
Via Darjeeling is the story of a honeymooning couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) who are very much in love. On the day of their departure from Darjeeling, Ankur disappears mysteriously leaving Rimli all alone frantically searching for him. Here enters the policeman Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) who tries to trace Ankur, but in vain. The story then moves onto a group of friends partying and having a good time, where Robin who is one of the guests narrates the story of Ankur and Rimli to his friends. How each one of them make their own interpretations as to what happened to Ankur makes the movie an interesting watch.
Via Darjeeling
Music
Via Darjeeling is the story of a honeymooning couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) who are very much in love. On the day of their departure from Darjeeling, Ankur disappears mysteriously leaving Rimli all alone frantically searching for him. Here enters the policeman Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) who tries to trace Ankur, but in vain. The story then moves onto a group of friends partying and having a good time, where Robin who is one of the guests narrates the story of Ankur and Rimli to his friends. How each one of them make their own interpretations as to what happened to Ankur makes the movie an interesting watch.
Bhalo Theko
Original Music Composer
The film is set in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose's home in Falta, West Bengal, masquerading as Uttarpara. It deals with the story of a girl Anandi and her family (including uncle, brother, parents and sister), lover (brother's friend Babua) and few neighbours. Nature, tradition and love are Anandi's pillars of support in difficult times. Her brother will slowly drift away with bad or risky companies, will not return home one day, and will be lost forever. Her parents will die heartbroken and her sister will get married suddenly and will leave the family. Babua will go abroad and marry somebody else.
Putulnacher Itikatha
Music
WWII is looming large. A forlorn doctor longs for intellectual romance. Based on Manik Bandyopadhyay’s seminal novel, a humble protest against the hypocrites who tend to play with the lives of humans as if they were puppets