The journey of acceptance and empowerment of a female priestess in a patriarchal world of Indian society
Mother
Krishna, 17 years-old and pregnant, returns to her village home in rural West Bengal to face her family and challenge the marriage of Tara, her beloved younger sister. Faced with patriarchy and the generational oppression of women the reunited sisters must reconcile their differences and make a fateful choice.
Sudip and Atreyee are college lovebirds. Both are highly successful in their career. Sudip became a CID officer and Atreyee accomplished herself as a notable actress. They have settled down, got married and was having a sweet and spicy life just like other happy-go-lucky couples. It was their honeymoon to a deep jungle where Atreyee gets kidnapped and leaves no traces behind. Sudip started to search for Atreyee and was highly active since the kidnappers were terrorists. While on the other side, Atreyee is listening from the kidnappers about their life story. Who are these kidnappers? What made them tagged as terrorists? Will Sudip be able to rescue Atreyi from the clutches of the goons?
Kheya, a theatre artist, faces challenges in her personal and professional life spanning from 1950 to 1970s in a world dominated by misogynistic men.
Puni's mother
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women & their changing position in society,seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next. A film by Aparna Sen.
Bhanu's Wife
The Nobel Medal of great Indian Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore was stolen in 2004 and it was never found. This film is a fictional account of what might have happened to the medal. A poor farmer...
This is a story of a Bengali housewife who takes up writing as a career after twenty three years of her marriage. She is introduced to a new world and new friends. Her work gets appreciated and this brings a new twist in her life. She starts discovering her husband and her beloved children in new light. This creates trouble in her family and she sacrifices her dream for the sake of her family.
