Torun Mukherjee
When a superstar, a young director and a theatre actress come together during the making of a film, it changes them forever.
On their way to Siliguri, India, Rahul and Ria bump into each other. Rahul plans to sell a stolen necklace, while Ria plans to meet her boyfriend. However, fate has something else in store for them.
Ek Mutho Chabi is a Bengali feature-film released in September 2005. As the name suggests, the movie does not tell one continuous story over 90 minutes; rather it's a compilation of six different stories combined together, all of around 20–25 minutes duration. All directed by different directors. The movie is a kind of experiment with short stories after success of telefilm industry.Argyakamal Mitra’s Janmodin, Partha Sen’s Pakshiraj, Indranil Roychowdhury’s Tapan Babu, Prabhat Roy’s Ragun Babur Galpo, Anjan Dutt’s Tarpor Bhalobasha and Kaushik Ganguly’s ProgressReport make up the package of six.
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Barun Banerjee, a middle-class bank employee, gets in trouble after the head office sets up an enquiry about previous transactions. However, he soon sees the selfish nature of the world around him.
Girish Ghosh, a dramatist, comes across Binodini Dasi, a prostitute who has a knack for theatre. Soon, she manages to garner a lot of attention because of her performances. Her struggles, her eminent role in the formation of Star Theatre in North Kolkata and her sacrifices for the same are shown. She was a pioneering entrepreneur of Indian Bengali stage. Her meeting with Sri Ramkrishna Dev, his liking for her acting and his blessings change her life significantly. She gives up acting which was her life after the sudden demise of the lord.
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.
'Prajapati' is the story of Sukhen who grows up neglected to become a rough person with a heart of gold. Shikha, Sukhen's beloved wants him to lead a normal and healthy life. His elder brothers are political leaders who work only for their personal gains. His eldest brother Keshav runs a drug business behind his medical business. His second brother Purnendu is a corrupt man who kills the young maid of their house. Sukhen attempts to stop the fatal rift growing between his brothers but is killed while doing so.
Bishwajit
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.
Though they initially quarrel, Jaya and Hirak eventually fall in love with each other. Problems arise after Jaya's father feels that the uneducated Hirak is not good enough for his daughter.
The movie portrays the social stigma for widows in the late 17th century that was prevalent in India. The plot line runs through many layers of complications both in Devika's personal life and her place in society, as she fights with her family, quarrels and distances herself from Kishore, marries another man under social pressures and much more. The movie makes the point that instead of behaving like meek sheep under social influences, we must understand every individual's perspective from our own point of view. The movie ends on a happy note where Kishore and Devika both stand against the blind and illogical superstitious mentality and are finally reunited.
Inspector Ashok Sharma is assigned to take over as Inspector In-Charge of a remote police station, which he does. Upon his arrival there, he comes to the rescue of a blind man and a widow, and has a fist fight with Nishikant Shah and his men. The next day, Shah finds out that the person his men fought with is no other than the new Inspector In-charge, and he goes to pay homage, but Ashok refuses. Then Shah and the local MLA spin a web of lies and deceit, in which Ashok is accused of killing a man in custody, and as a result he may face criminal charges and also lose his job.
The plot is based on the novel "Ashleelatar Daye" by Narayan Sanyal (1924-2005), which is an adaptation of "Seven Minutes" by Irving Wallace. A novel is accused of obscenity and a case is filed. Later it is found that a now famous person had written the novel when young and it was based on his own experience. The case is dismissed.
Screenplay
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)
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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)
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Three orphans Arun, Barun and Kiranmala set out to search for their parents. While doing so, they face many challenges but receive help from the fairy spirits.
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.
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?
Khagen
A patriotic doctor lends moral backbone to the broken society of Bengal.
A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.
Jiban Saikate is a 1972 Bengali film based on the novel The Citadel by A. J. Cronin. It was directed by Swadesh Sarkar and stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen and Dilip Roy.
Inspired by the life of Rishi Aurobindo, it’s a Bengali classic portraying the life of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh beginning from his return to India in 1892 to his life in Pondicherry in 1910. This film shows a detailed narration of his early life, marriage, interaction with Sister Nivedita, contributions in India’s freedom struggle and activities in Jugantar, Alipore bomb blast case, and the subsequent trial.
Rich Meenakshi is engaged to Arindam but suddenly receives death threats from smuggling kingpin Jayanta AKA Nishachar and suffers a nervous breakdown. What for?
Pradyut Sen is an allopathic doctor who moves to Nabagram to run his practice. However, as the village already has an ayurvedic doctor, Jibon Sen, Pradyut develops a dislike for him.
‘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.
Arohi is 1965 movie by Tapan Sinha
Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to pretend to be the king.
A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time passes he grows more consumed by the mansion and its air of romance, and the spirits that haunt it, especially a beautiful woman. Adapted from a Rabindranath Tagore story.
