Sabitri Chatterjee

Kulpi takes us on a journey to reflect on what it means to be a person with dwarfism - and why people's obsession with little people has left lasting damage. It's also a love story between a dwarf young man and a short woman.

Meghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in East Pakistan by a trusted retainer of the family. And many years after the tragedy, she visits Dhaka to trace her roots and faces the murderer's family who now occupies her house. Maati traces Meghla's trials with truth and humanity while tackling issues of migration, human displacement, and relationships.

Noni is an elderly woman who decides to marry her much younger boyfriend Partho. When her children and grandchildren learn about this they immediately arrive at the family house. The women cannot help but be smitten by the seductive Partho but they all have their suspicions regarding his ulterior motives to marry their grandmother

A married woman on journey from Mumbai to Howrah by train meets her ex-husband.

Jisshu Sengupta and Koel Mallick are eternally at loggerheads in the film

Rwik and Sahana are journalists from Calcutta, who visit `Jhumura`, a fictitious village in Purulia to do a story on `Jhumur`, an almost dying folk art. The young duo meets an elderly couple, who are traditional Jhumur artists. Their conversation leads Rwik and Sahana to discover an unheard tale of love, hatred and compassion that commence with the tune of Jhumur and culminate in the serene locales of Purulia. This film is a lyrical saga that revolves around the life, love and struggles of Jhumur performers of Bengal.

Aswin Kapoor and his wife Sabitri start a game on their way to Darjeeling in which both act as strangers.

Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.

A remake of the original Bengali movie

Nawren, Nawgen and Nobin, three friends enjoying their retirement, decide to end the monotony in their lives and earn some extra money by setting up a tea stall.

At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire as deep as the simple desire for companionship." Inspired by this Graham Greene quote, "Podokkhep" is the story of an unusual bond between a retired man and a 5-year-old girl where he rediscovers life in his twilight years through this friendship.

It revolves around a romantic story rooted deeply in an incident of the lead character Ananda’s previous life. Trapped in between two timelines, the story delves into a period when a bunch of youngsters was ready to sacrifice their lives for India’s freedom. Sadly, the treachery of one destroyed their dreams and ended their lives.

When her husband strays onto the wrong path, Mala decides to help him. However, Gocool, her greedy brother-in-law, has his eyes set on their property.

After being cheated by his brothers and his wife Aparajita, Kalidas disguises himself as a Punjabi singer, Mohan Singh. Unaware that Mohan Singh is her husband, Aparajita falls in love with him.

Joyee is an Indian Bengali drama film released on 1997. The film is directed by Sachin Adhikari.

Abinash, a smuggler, murders his wife when she learns about his profession. Later, he ruins Ram's life but things take a turn when Sita, Ram's wife, learns about his deeds.

Mamata, the daughter of a rich industrialist, Abinash, is raised by Maya as her own child. However, her marriage with Anil instigates a series of tragic events in her life.

The story is as Brajaraj Karforma is a veteran office clerk, who usually came to office very late and likes to chat with every one. The main subject of his stories is his fictional heroic activities.

Mantramugdha is a 1977 Indian Bengali film, directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay and produced by Raja Kapoor, Vinod Kapoor and R.N. Malhotra. The film stars Sabitri Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Ranjit Mallick, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt in lead roles. The film has musical score by Hemanta Mukherjee.

When Nabakrishna's mother died, he was just a boy. She left him enough fortune to live a well-off life. But, can money fulfil everything that one can desire in their life?

A newly appointed good-looking officer catches the eyes of the fathers of would-be-brides. But he has some other plans.

A romantic comedy with football at its center.

A young doctor is introduced to a girl by his cousin, but he rejects her as a potential bride and she disappears one day, leaving only a garland of dried flowers behind.

Bollywood 1970

'Nishi Padma' is a 1970 Bengali drama film written and directed by Aravinda Mukherjee, based on a short story 'Hinger Kochuri' by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and starring Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee as leads. This film was remade in the Hindi as 'Amar Prem' (1972), directed by Shakti Samanta.

A renowned social worker of the old Bengali culture has been conspired against by the landlord of the village to create criticism against him before the public to hide his crimes.

Based on the novel "Grihadaha" written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Kal Tumi Aleya’ is the story of rise of Dhirapada Chakroborty from his humble background to the post of general supervisor in Mr. Himanshu Mitra’s company. It’s his journey which shows his various relations with his neighbor whom he calls Sona boudi, Charu di who helps him get this job, Labanya Sarkar, the lady doctor of the company and Amit, Charu’s nephew. The film shows how he faces and handles different circumstances of life and business. It’s the story of Dhirpada’s journey in this delusionary world.

‘Jora Dighir Choudhury Paribar’ is the story of landlords, their ego, love and revenge. Despite ancestral differences Chouhdury family’s landlord and Indrani, the landlady of Raktadaha decide to get married. But circumstances for him to marry Banamala to save her from Parantap Roy. Roy marries Indrani to take revenge against Jora Dighi. Misunderstanding turns lovers into enemies leading to their fatal end.

Deepa, a schizophrenic patient, loses her normalcy due to a mishap that occurred in her personal life. Dr. Surajit Sen takes this case as a challenge to prove that an injured mind needs more care and a better understanding than any medicine on therapy. The film portrays how the doctor gets intimate with his patient and slowly gets into the detail of her crisis and enables her to lead a normal life.

A young engineer Niren marries a young widow Rama who already has a five-year-old child Tutul from her previous marriage. Their marital life grows increasingly difficult as Tutul refuses to recognise his stepfather. Niren's attempts to win him over too fail even as Rama tries to please both. The marriage finally collapses and she commits suicide.

Pranbir goes to war where he meets his doppelganger, Rateshwar, who eventually dies in combat. Pranbir decides to visit Rateshwar's family to inform them about his death but the family mistake him for Rateshwar.

Bhrantibilas is a 1963 Bengali film based on the 1869 play Bhranti Bilas by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Although the original play was set in an unspecified, but distant past, the film relocates the story to modern day India. The film tells the story of a Bengali merchant from Kolkata and his servant who visit a small town for a business appointment, but, whilst there, are mistaken for a pair of locals, leading to much confusion.

Widower Sudhangsu is going to be married with Soma, daughter of Sir Haraprasad. Sudhangsu declares that his first wife Kalpana committed suicide on a railway track in Burma, stating that she was mentally challenged. At the time of the marriage rituals a local advocate, Suren Banerjee, comes with a lady who claims that she herself is Kalpana and that Sudhangshu is committing bigamy. Sudhangsu strongly denies and claims that she is an imposter. In the meantime a mysterious person name Samadder invaded Sudhangsu's house and stole some ornaments of the deceased Kalpana.

A film by Mrinal Sen.

This film portrays a greedy thief's struggle to run blindly after riches.

Running away from an early marriage Suresh elopes with his coy girlfriend Niru and stays away from his uncle Jagannath and lives in a rented house adding to it is a lot of chaos.

Trouble ensues when an eccentric but simple-minded villager discovers he is the only living heir of a royal estate.

Arjun is a very lonely person. He doesn't know what life is. Every day for him is a struggle. So he becomes a criminal. Jail is a safe custody for him because food is always available in jail. So he tries to return to the place, but all his efforts gone in vain, then he travels to a place and meets a father. He is the principal of a missionary residential school. In that place Arjun meets Miss Chaterjee, a teacher. At first she doesn't like him, but shortly she started to realise Arjun's quality. Arjun is an also a very good singer, but again for his bad reputation police catches him and send him to the jail. In court some students actually support him and thus all the misunderstanding solved and the truth prevails.

While on their way to Hinglaj, Maharaj and his companions meet Kunti, who was raped by dacoits, and Thirumal, whom she left her family for. Together, they set out to seek the blessings of God.

Drama movie in 1958 by Agragami

The story is a simple tale of a great soul Sarbananda based on a simple village. Shambhu is a small boy raised up by his mother and grandfather. Shambhu is extremely mischievous and does things. Everybody in the village knows each other and all share a common feeling of love and concern for each other. But Shambhu belongs to lower caste and so every time he and his family is met with intense insult. Social stigmas like caste discrimination were strongly prevalent in those times. Purna da loves him but also hates his naughty ways. Meanwhile a Brahmin high class family residing in the same village too is plagued by problems of their own. One of the two sons of the family does not like earning a livelihood simply by performing prayers around. He does not learn his scriptures well or anything expected from a Brahmin boy. His family falls in trouble often and is considered the laughing stock for this.

When Abhoy gets engaged to Sabitri she starts to ridicule him as he is old fashioned and socially awkward. Will situations change for Abhoy?

darsha Hindu Hotel is a Bengali drama film directed by Ardhendu Sen based on the same name novel of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.[1][2] This film was released on 31 May 1957 under the banner of Sreelekha Pictures

Mrinal Sen's first film Raat Bhor, was released in 1956. Deeply influenced by the leftist ideology, this film dealt with social and political themes.

Krishna, the daughter of a penny-pincher, falls for their tenant, Sunil. However, when Sunil leaves to forge a career, her insensitive father fixes her marriage with someone else for money.

Raikamal narrates the story of Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna. Rai Kamal and Ranjan are childhood sweethearts. When Ranjan grows up he wishes his desire to marry Rai but his parents are against this match as they are Brahmins and Rai Kamal was a low caste Vaishnav.

Directed by Manu Sen.

Ananda, an upcoming writer leaves his village to pursue his writing career in Kolkata

Ramshankar is a poor man who lives with his family. He arranges his daughter's marriage with an old man. Soon, she returns home as a widow and Ramshankar realises his mistake.

Setap, a money-minded man, gets insecure when he hears a rumour about his dutiful wife and spendthrift brother, Mahatap. Soon, things go out of hand when Setap's rage takes over. Setap became mad hearing those words from Ghoton.

Bidhu, a family man, leads a content life with his two sons and four daughters. As the sole breadwinner of the family, Bidhu's life turns upside down when his son is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

The movie tells about the story of fakkaram a.k.a. fakka and his love along with his family and his greedy relatives in search of a valuable amount of money left by a millionaire.

A job in the jute mill drive Sitesh away from his brother Nitesh and sister-in-law and lands him into a stream of marriage proposals and attempts by colleagues to make him their son-in-law. What will happen when he falls in love and is not accepted by the father of the girl?

Shubhankar Sanyal is an honest lawyer.