Lily Chakravarty
Birth : 1941-08-08, Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India
History
Lily Chakraborty is mainly a Bengali actress who has earned accolades for her natural way of acting skill and has acted in many Bollywood films also.In large number of films she portrayed character roles but has acted as heroine in several pictures as well.She has acted as heroine of one Malayalam film 'Priya' in 1970.She has acted in Bhojpuri films,Assamese films etc also. She used to act in stage plays and in TV serials.
Lily Chakraborty was born on August 8, 1941 in Dhaka and her Father's name was Kesab Chandra Chakraborty and Mother was Dipti Chakraborty.Her debut film was as a supporting actress in the film " Bhanu Pelo Lottery' in 1958.She then used to appear continuously in Bengali films like 'Adwitiya,Fuleswari,Mukhjay Paribar,Janani' etc. In 1973 Gulzar directed a sensitive subject 'Achanak' which told the story of an Army Officer who was very handsome, smart and home loving person eagerly returning home after the 1971 war to see his beloved wife.He was shocked to find that his wife was in love with another person.Vinod Khanna was the hero as the Army Officer and Lily Chakraborty was the heroine of this film.Iftekhar acted as a Police Officer and Farida Jalal as a nurse. In 1975 she acted in another film of 'Gulzar' named 'Mausam' which was a super hit film.Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore Om Shiv puri etc acted. She acted along with Mallika Sarabhai in 'Mutti Bhar Chawal(75) directed by Surendra Shailaj. In the Super hit film 'Chupke Chupke' in which Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were the main pair Lily Chakraborty portrayed the character 'Lata Kumar Srivastav'.Hrishikesh Mukherjee was the director. In another famous film of Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1977 'Alaap' she acted as one of the heroine as 'Geeta. A. Prasad, wife of Amitabh Bachchan's character 'Alok Prasad'. In 1989 she acted in 'Ek Din Achanak' which was directed by Mrinal Sen in which Shabana Azmi was the heroine. In 1976 she acted in the Satyajit Ray's Bengali film 'Jana Aranya' and later in another Satyajit Ray film 'Shakha Proshaka'. In 1970 she was the heroine of Malayalam film 'Priya' which was directed by Madhu.It was the debut venture of Madhu as a director.Madhu acted as the hero of this movie which was adopted from the novel of C.Radhakrishnan. In 2009 she has acted in the Assamese film 'Basundhara' which got National Award for Best feature film in Assamese.It handled the theme of man-elephant conflicts faced by forest range inhabitants.Director'Producer was Hiren Bora.
Sequel to the 2020 film Cheeni.
Upcoming Bengali Movie Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Manik Babu, a respected Ex-Army officer, with his wife Dipa sojourns in a conurbation near Kolkata. His son along with his daughter-in-law and grandson have settled abroad. So he develops a bond with his childhood friend Sen Babu's grandson, Tatai. When a circus team emanates in their area, Tatai falls in love with the grandeur of the circus, especially the circus horse. But can Manikababu ultimately fulfill Tatai's dream?
Pisithakuma
Krishanu ‘Tintin’ Chatterjee (Dev), an aspiring graphic novelist, meets Rohini Sen (Rukmini Maitra), a rich, progressive girl, at a college in the hills and the duo fall in love. They are all set to get married when their parents’ past returns to mess things up.
Elder father-in-law Ms. Dayal Babu, widow Bauma Mamata, Adar's only grandson Vijay and happy man Ramu who is a working man. The days were quite short. On the other hand, old PC Sudha, Mou who lost her parents, Mou and brother Som were spending some time with her. There is a strange resemblance between these two families. Vijay and Mou are on a very good bus to each other. Both families also like marriage. The condition is the same, first study, then career, then marriage. Vijay and Mou agreed to that. Suddenly everything changes in a gust of wind. The two finished school. Gradually, Vijay was admitted to the city college to study engineering. And Mou was admitted to a college in his area. Once the distance between the two increases. Vijay went to college and fell in love with a girl named Mahi who grew up in an orphanage. Vijay suddenly married her and brought her home. Let the sky fall on the heads of everyone in the family. Vijay's grandfather and mother's dream was shattered.
Swarnaja (Koel Mallick) is a hard-working do-gooder radio jockey with the rarest blood group in the world, Rh null blood group. She has been brought up by her grandmother. Her four year old son Pawrag is kidnapped by Shammo, an imposter.
Saathi's Mother
Abyakto is a poignant tale of a mother and her son, Indra. The film captures a series of unexplained and unusual events which turn Indra into a man he never thought he would become. These events unfold through the film’s three most integral characters: Indra’s mother, Saathi his father, Kaushik his father’s friend and his favourite uncle Rudra. The film travels through various time lapses and captures the stirring and unexplainable situations and the intricacies and complexities of various relationships.
Gunjan, Sindur and Ashalata are three women from three different generations, who are all struggling to set themselves free from social compulsions. Tumi O Tumi revolves around the conflict between the inner and outer selves of these women, redefining the meaning of women empowerment in the process.
Sulekha
Sanjhbati is the story of Sulekha, the lonely elderly woman facing difficulties with her loneliness. Director Leena Gangopadhyay has led us through various events of Sulekha's life involving her two caretakers up to her alleged murder.
In the pre-independent days, Viceroy Lord Curzon gifted a diamond-embedded golden pen to a local landlord as a token of gratitude for saving his life. When a newspaper feature about the long-lost pen's historical significance surfaces over a century later, it piques the curiosity of several people for all the right and wrong reasons. The key to discovering the pen lies in solving a set of puzzles left behind by the landlord, but with a fortune at stake and plenty of interested parties joining the treasure hunt, things may just take a dark turn.
Gauri Lahiri
This film to be a family drama based on the theme of parenting. The film revolves around the upbringing of a young boy by his grandparents and his working parents and also deals with the legal fight over parenting as the plot unfolds. His grandpa wins.
'Hera Pheri' is the story of a con man Ronnie and a con woman Bonny who cheat people for money. But it's gradually revealed that Bonny wants money to build a mental asylum where mentally unstable people like her mother can be treated. On a fateful night years back criminal named Bhagare Shashthi attacked Bata Krishna's jewelry shop and on their way back they had killed Bonny's father and charged young Ronnie of the murder. After the truth is revealed Bonny and Ronnie start working together for money. One day Bata Krishna receives a ransom call from Sashti meant for Haladhar Manna. Signal, Ronnie's aide decides to pose as kidnappers and call Manna. They demand double the amount demanded by kidnappers. After a lot of complications the child is rescued, Ronnie gets the money and Sashti gets killed.
Kawmola
In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.
Sabita, Khokan’s Mother
Because of a train strike, a group of tourists, mostly unrelated to each other, get stuck in New Mal Junction. These people are honeymooners (Saheb and Mimi), family vacationers (Pallavi Chatterjee, Koushik Banerjee, Tridha Choudhury), an ailing mother and her son (Lily Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly), a priest (Ardhendu Banerjee), a heroine and her abnormal brother (Gargi Roy Choudhury, Rajdeep Ghosh), one trekker (Kamaleshwar Mukherjee), a bus conductor (Rudranil), and a retired teacher (Maasud Akthar). One of the tourists, the priest manages to arrange a bus from the church for them to reach North Bengal. The other tourists also join him in the bus trip, but unfortunately the bus meets with a terrible accident. It falls off a cliff into an abyss, but the tourists survive with minor injuries. Injured and traumatized, they realize that they have become completely detached from any form of human contact.
Subhashree GangulyChakraborty played the role of sister. The Prabhat Roy film saw Jeet and Swastika Mukherjee in the lead.
Cocooned in the hilly wrap of Kalimpong, divorcee schoolteacher Teesta (Debasree Roy) feels she can't communicate with people any more. She speaks to the mountains instead, and even when a much younger man (Badshah Moitra) tries to ignite her passion, she remains aloof. Her second marriage is on the rocks.
Jyathaima
Based on Nabarun Bhattacharyas novel of the same name which won the highest literary prize in India in 1997, Suman Mukhopadhyays debut feature Herbert is a deeply moving and artistically accomplished motion picture full of profound laughter, pathos, and humanity.
Rajlakshmi
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Santu is murdered in the hands of a corrupt minister's drug-peddling son when he protests against the sale of drugs on the college campus. As the law enforcers turn a deaf ear to Raja's pleas, he decides to avenge his brother's death.
Unhappy with the marriage, a rich man's mother drives her pregnant daughter-in-law, Asha, out of the house. However, years later, her son sets out to exact revenge against the injustice.
Ananda loses his father as a young boy. He is forced to quit his studies and to take care of his entire family and struggles a lot while doing so. This story marks his sufferings and struggles.
Sen Gupta, a doctor who only treats upper-class patients, is forced to confront his own moral and medical beliefs as he discovers rural India during an unexpected stop at a village. He finds a breathless man lying on the side of the road. With little sympathy, the doctor sends him back to his own village for treatment. When Dr. Gupta discovers that the villages wants a witch doctor to treat the man, he attends the exorcism and is shocked. A transformation of the cold city man then follows.
Raju, an honest officer, tries to eradicate corruption from the town. However, he faces many obstacles and even loses his wife in the process.
A series of murders in a forest compels the owner to file a complaint with the police. The authorities investigate the killings in order to apprehend the perpetrator and uncover their motive.
Biswajit is a renowned barrister. He has two younger brothers, named Indrajit and Abhisek. He along with his two younger brothers creates a very happy family. Indrajit joins the police force by the recommendation of MLA Suprakash Sanyal. Indrajit is a honest, sincere and brave police officer, on the other hand Abhisek slowly enters into a wrong path. Indrajit does not concentrate properly in family. So he has some conflicts and differences with his wife. At this juncture a rape case investigation is handed over to him. A member of the Sanyal's gang named Raja has done that crime. So Indrajit arrested him and placed the file before court. When the trial is almost at the end of its proceedings, then Sanyal's men kidnapped Indrajit's son. Release of Raja is their only demand and they convey it to Indrajit. On the other hand Sanyal's daughter Rupa loves Abhisek. So she helps Indrajit. After refusing the demand of Sanyal, Indrajit defeats all evil forces and reveals Sanyal in front of ...
After her husband passes away at a regressive Shyambazar household, progressive Bandana falls in love with her son's painting mentor, Sudipto Sorcar. However, due to Titli Chatterjee's mother's objection, Bandana gives up on her love and starts living at the orphanage.
Suren, a young lad, visits his uncle in the city. As he tries to solve the problems of those around him, he gets entangled in them.
Uma
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son (Soumitra Chatterjee) who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
Neighbor
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.
Sumita is smitten with Sanjay's voice and decides to take music lessons from him. Soon, they fall in love with each other but her narrow-minded father conspires to separate them.
Haji and Rupchand are amongst those who oppress the poor sharecroppers of Asmanpur. Eventually, Jagra and Nitai raise their voices against them but are incessantly harassed.
A landlord develops feelings for Kunda but is unable to marry her since he is married to Suryamukhi. Eventually, Kunda marries Suryamukhi's brother, who turns out to be an alcoholic.
Gauri, an average girl from a village, falls in love with a wealthy man from the city, Samir. The unusual couple go through a series of turmoil after Samir goes abroad to study law.
The film documents one of the largest Indian religious fairs, the Kumbh Mela, which is held at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati. The action is seen through the eyes of Shubhendu Chatterjee who has come to the Mela not out of any religious sentiment but to see and understand people and seek the reason why “….multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining.” (Mark Twain after visiting the 1895 Mela)
Swarna Mahal is the tale of power, deceit, betrayal and murder. Swarna Mahal is the ancestral palace of the Singharoy family. It's the family's tradition that the eldest in the family will get the throne and inherit the property. The eldest son of the family Birendra is a bachelor and an alcohol addict. The second son Jitendra had married a priest's daughter but she and her son Saibal were never accepted by the family. Taking advantage of this situation the youngest Bihupendra plans to usurp the property. But, his plans get disturbed when Jitendra marries Semontini who forces them to accept Saibal into the family. Bhupendra kills Jitendra and instigates Saibal to kill Birendra. Saibal is jailed for murdering Birendra. Bhupendra conspires to kill Semontini too. But, Satindra, Bhupendra's lawyer son ruins all his plans and reveals his truth before the court. Bhupendra is given life imprisonment. The mother and the son are united.
This movie is based on a novel of same name written by Sunil Gangapaddhaya. A retired government employee, Raja Roy Chowdhury, known as Kakababu, is the main character of this movie. In this movie, he and his nephew, Santu, are in Andaman Island for solving a mystery.
Goddess Durga takes birth in the form of a human in Bhikhu's house. One day, Parashar, her devotee, arrives to liberate her. Thus, begins an altercation wherein several people lay claim on her.
Sonu Choudhury
Haridas Choudhury, a wealthy and honest shoe company owner, faces a moral dilemma when his Chauffeur's son (Bansi) is mistakenly kidnapped instead of his son. Inspector Amar is assigned to the case and while the search for Bansi is on-going Haridas is losing control of his company.
Kamala
A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.
Lata Shrivastav
Mischievous botany professor Parimal Tripathi plays a little trick on his brother-in-law Raghav. Jealous of the high esteem in which his own wife, Sulekha, holds the other man, Parimal decides to impersonate Raghav's new driver. Laying the groundwork for a series of hilarious misunderstandings, the disguised professor throws doubt on his wife's fidelity and gets his best buddy, Sukumar, to help out by impersonating Parimal.
Fuleshwari, a beautiful young woman, falls in love with Brindaban, a simpleton who arrives in her village. She plans to marry him but is hesitant when she learns that he is involved in a crime.
Anuradha's Stepmother
Story of Anuradha who is an alcoholic
Pushpa Bakshi / Pushpa Khanna
Dr. Chaudhary must perform multiple surgeries on Major Ranjeet Khanna, who was shot by the Police while trying to escape from custody after killing his wife, Pushpa, and her lover, Prakash. Chances of Ranjeet's recovery are very slim, if he does recover, he could end up mentally unstable or paralyzed. In the event he does recover, the medical staff's efforts would be in vain as he has already been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
Directed by Gurudas Bagchi in 1972.
Janani is the struggle that a widow goes through to bring up her three children after the sudden death of her husband.
Nupur Chatterji
Nupur Chatterji has fled from her home in Delhi, resisting an arranged marriage with a man she dislikes. She comes to Calcutta to her college friend, but as her home is not safe she takes shelter in the house of one Anjan Mukherjee. Though initially annoyed, Anjan, a bachelor and a music director cum singer from Lucknow, comes to empathise with Nupur. In this situation enters the great detective Bhanu with Jahar, his assistant, for by now Dr. Digambar Chatterji has declared a prize money of ten thousand rupees for finding his missing daughter.
Ashoke and Mala get married under unavoidable circumstances, but his conservative father does not accept her as his daughter-in-law. When Mala finds no help coming from sheepish Ashoke, she vows to set things right herself.
Biltu and Dolly are in love with each other, but Dolly's orthodox uncle disapproves of their relationship. However, when her uncle decides to get her married to his friend's son, she pretends to be ill. After listening to this news, Biltu seeks for help from his friends. One of them eventually enters the house as a nurse (with false name Priyangbada, played by Bhanu Bandyopadhyay) to take care of Dolly and another friend is appointed as the house guard. Meanwhile, Dolly's uncle proposes Miss Priyangbada. After have some hilarious incidents, Biltu weds Dolly and lives happily together.
Subrata joins his father's business that he quits due to ideological differences. What awaits his fate now?
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The son of a wealthy industrialist aspires to be a singer against the wishes of his father.
Jashoda
Bipasha and Dibyendu are in love, and the two decide to marry. However, on their wedding night upon receiving a letter, Dibyendu leaves Bipasha before the ceremony to locate his birth parents.
Film starring Kali Bannerjee, Ranjana Bannerjee and Robin Bannerjee
An anthology of three stories.
Grandma
A typical family drama
