Ranjan Palit

Filmes

A Knock on the Door
Director
BhubanBabur Smart Phone
Director of Photography
Bhuban Babu buys a Smart Phone but faces problem learning to use it.
Tangra Blues
Director of Photography
a jubilant musical journey set against the backdrop of gang wars. Tangra Blues follows two people who go through various highs and lows of life, wrestling with the memories of the past and struggles of the present to create a foundation for a hopeful future.
Lord of the Orphans
Cinematography
Lord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old curse. It is a unique biopic, a sort of auto-biopic, where filmmaker Ranjan Palit turns the lens on himself and his family.
Lord of the Orphans
Writer
Lord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old curse. It is a unique biopic, a sort of auto-biopic, where filmmaker Ranjan Palit turns the lens on himself and his family.
Lord of the Orphans
Director
Lord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old curse. It is a unique biopic, a sort of auto-biopic, where filmmaker Ranjan Palit turns the lens on himself and his family.
Quatro Histórias de Fantasmas
Director of Photography
Quatro thrillers de Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee e Karan Johar, os mesmos diretores de Quatro Histórias de Desejo, indicado ao Emmy.
Purbo Poschim Dokkhin Uttor Ashbei
Director of Photography
The stories are based on the concepts of Paranormal, psychic situations Blind faith on black magic and witch craft , Severe superstitions and rituals Reincarnation, fake identity and mysterious comeback. The film rationalizes the good and the bad sides of popular belief and age-old ideas, the evil of superstition and the dark side of mankind.
22 Yards
Director of Photography
Ron Sen is a successful sports agent who manages top players from the Indian cricket team. After controversy ends the prospects of his career, Ron mentors a down-on-luck cricketer, Shome to help achieve his dream.
Hitler Upside Down
Director of Photography
Adolf Hitler returns from the dead and comes to India, a country now inching towards fascism, in search of a mysterious holy ship that can save the Fuhrer from the end of days.
Pataakha
Director of Photography
Based on Charan Singh Pathik's short story Do Behnein, Pataakha narrates the story of two feuding sisters who realize the true nature of their relationship only after marriage separates them.
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Director of Photography
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
D'Cruz and Me
Sound Recordist
A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.
D'Cruz and Me
Cinematography
A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.
D'Cruz and Me
Director
A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.
Mirza
Director of Photography
Set in modern day Kolkata, Mirzaa is the story of two orthodox underworld kingpins and their hate against each other that finally shatters the world around them. Based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Mirzaa tells the story of a time when love becomes forbidden
The Textures of Loss
Cinematography
For over two decades now, the regularity of unmitigated violence has left daily life in Kashmir in tatters. The violence has had an impact on almost every home and many families have no adult male members. The film looks at the impact of this violence on the lives of those left bereft by it. Women affected by the loss of their close ones have somatized the psychological devastation they have suffered onto their bodies. Young people have nothing to look forward to and a depressing environment has a cascading effect on children who see sadness and tragedy all around them.
Celluloid Man
Director of Photography
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
7 Khoon Maaf
Director of Photography
Susanna is hungry for love and will go to any extent to find it in its purest form. In her quest for the perfect man, she gets married a number of times as each of her husband's die mysteriously.
In Camera
Director
In Camera is part memoir and part meditation on the director's art: Palit revisits characters from his older works, among them the blind Baul singer from Abak Jaye Here and protestors featured in Voices from Baliapal, about an agitation against a missile testing range in Orissa. Palit assesses the impact of these films on their lives and on himself. In keeping with Palit’s feelings about the limits of documentary filmmaking, there are many questions but no convenient answers.
The Thread of Karma
Director of Photography
An intimate look at the life of a young lama as he aspires to live up to the reputation of his former incarnation. It also explores his moving relationship with the two people closest to him, his attendant and his spiritual master, both of whom were connected to him in his previous life.
Hope Dies last in war
Director of Photography
54 Indian soldiers taken as Prisoners of War during the Indo-Pak war of 1971 are yet to return home. While waiting for them, some of the parents died, some of the wives remarried and some children lost hope and committed suicide. But the real ordeal has been for those who did not give up. For them life has become a tight rope walking between hope and despair.
Byatikrami
Director of Photography
When a woman loses her baby, her husband abandons her and she starts showing schizophrenic symptoms. She sets her eyes on her elder sister's husband and tries to get close to him.
Way Back Home
Cinematography
After more than 50 years India’s Partition the director follows his parents as they visit their lost homeland in Bangladesh. The mother tries to trace out one of her sisters who was abandoned during the holocaust of partition. The film is about this journey, individual and collective memories and the historical consciousness arise from personal interactions and recollections.
Performing Death
Cinematography
This is a video about the Park Street cemetery in Calcutta - one of the earliest colonial cemeteries in the world – its degrading conditions and its status as an abandoned legacy of an empire lost and forgotten.
Shadows in the Dark
Director of Photography
Young filmmaker Pankaj Butalia directs this sweeping film about ill-fated love set against the epic canvas of India's partition into Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistan. The film opens with Lajma, a beautiful school teacher with greying hair, leaving Pakistan for her childhood home in India. There she discovers that the home is in ruin, her aging aunt is half senile, and her cousin Gautam is bitter and defeated. Flashback to 1947 when India splits in two -- the police force a proud old Muslim man, along with his grieving daughter-in-law, to take in a couple of impoverished Hindus, Chand and Bhagwati, into their large home. Later, Chand's mute sister Lajjo arrives with her young daughter Lajma in tow. Suffering from some unnamed past trauma, Lajjo is eventually shipped off to an asylum, leaving Lajma with her uncle. Later still, Lajma, Chand's son Gautam and their neighbor's son Jamal all live and play with each other in Chand's vast complex.
Et cetera
Cinematography
‘Et cetera’ is a tetralogy of four separate films that seek to examine the various levels at which the reality of human existence functions.
A Magic Mystic Marketplace
Director
A look into the mystic world of a blind singer from India who sings of love and death at a holy crematoria. The handheld Hi-8 camera moves freely and gives us a lucid look at this artistic and religious man, as well as at his daily family life.
Kamlabai
Director of Photography
Conversations with 92 year old Kamlabai Gokhale, a pioneering actress of the Marathi stage and the first lady of Indian film. The documentary gives an impression of the history and growth of Indian film and theatre as it was experienced by a woman who struggled against the social structures of her times.
Eleven Miles
Cinematography
Tradition and contemporary practice of Bauls, Bengali mystic minstrels, are explored in Calcutta filmmaker and author Ruchir Joshi’s essay film.
Memories of Milk City: Sketches for a Film on Ahmedabad
Director of Photography
A fourteen minute cine-poem, Memories of Milk City catches Ahmedabad at a time of transition, peeling away layers of textures, gestures and sounds, tripping over a culture and a language at war with themselves.
Voices from Baliapal
Producer
"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...
Voices from Baliapal
Cinematography
"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...
Voices from Baliapal
Director
"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...
Bombay, Our City
Director of Photography
A documentary on the socio-economic injustice meted out to the slum-dwellers in Bombay, and an attempt to understand the factors responsible for it.
Forever Young
Director