Aparna Sen

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,...

Indira marries Upendranath Maitra at a young age, but as per her father's wish, she stays back with father for a period. She gets attacked by some...

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While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have...

Bengali adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.

The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all...

‘Aparichito’ is a multi-starrer featuring Uttam Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Sandhya Roy, Aparna Sen and Soumitra Chatterjee. The film was inspired...

An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter...

A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life...

The journey of a woman from a mere homemaker to a woman seeking her self identity. This search for self identity is sparked off by a young bohemian...

After her husband passes away at a regressive Shyambazar household, progressive Bandana falls in love with her son's painting mentor, Sudipto Sorcar....

Sagina a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against the tyranny of the British bosses in the Tea...

The story of a poverty-stricken family, one of the countless fringe dwellers in India's slums. A man tries to earn some money by selling aborted...

An award-winning aging actress reflects on her life while writing a suicide note.

Chandra realizes her husband is having an affair with Modhu. She leaves home and is offered a job by the wealthy Shyam, who soon realises her good...

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...

When the elderly mother of a Kolkata middle-class family commits suicide, no one has the courage to read the old woman's diary. When the eldest son...

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...

A hilarious romantic-comedy where two people have their luggage exchanged during a train journey. One of them (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a...

A day in the life of a six-year-old child in Calcutta, who lives shut up in the family home, insulated from the city by a park. The father is away at...

A wealthy industrialist, despite his wealth, drinks alone at night. His wife, deprived of love, meets a past love interest, leading to unfortunate...

Sudipa falls in love with Rawnobir, a goon, and soon, they both get married. However, things take a turn when Rawnobir is arrested and gets...

A well-to-do married couple keeps bickering over minor issues though the pair love each other. With time, their love gets tested but they keep...

A young man still to find a place in the sun puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon. They meet frequently since then. Bluffs...

In a world of family ties and hidden secrets, one woman's quest for independence collides with dark desires. Love and vengeance intertwine, revealing...

19 years after losing her child, Mrs. Roy still hasn’t stopped looking. In an attempt to usurp her wealth, her manager plants Seema to pose as...

Documentary on Aparna Sen's life.

Jamuna Bai is the daughter of a famous courtesan named Kamala Bai who was known in Benaras for dance. Although Jamuna had learnt music from her...

A man survives a shipwreck and brings his wife home only to find out the woman he found unconscious on the shore was not his betrothed but a complete...

Hoichoi Studios' second film.

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...

On their first honeymoon, newlyweds face an unexpected twist when the husband discovers his boss, whom he deceived to get time off, staying at the...

Sanaka and Paromita are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together....

Prabir, a rich and selfish man who does not realise the value of love and relationships, ruins the life of Mallika, a beautiful woman who loves him.

A political film reflecting the turbulent times of the '60s and '70s.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

A landlord develops feelings for Kunda but is unable to marry her since he is married to Suryamukhi. Eventually, Kunda marries Suryamukhi's brother,...

A female dancer becomes famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way.

Ahmed and Mohan Kumar Saxena are petty thieves, and con-men. They career is spent as false witnesses near the Bombay courts, where they get paid a...

The story develops around the evolution of Titli from girl to womanhood.

A 1973 Bengali Comedy Film directed by Chidananda Dasgupta. The remake of the Silent Comedy Bengali Film Bilet Pherat (1921), directed by Nitish...

The film follows Mrinal Sen in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming...

After her father’s death, Anuradha Chowdhury became very upset. In such circumstances, Mr. Mallik, the general manager of Chowdhury Mines,...

A renowned singer returns to his town that had forsaken him. He finds his true love but fate eludes him from a union.

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...

'Teen Kanya' is an anthology film based upon short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, as a tribute on the author's centenary. The title means "Three...

Amodini is a rich landowner's daughter. Unable to face social stigma, her father arranges her marriage to a much older person, who fails to turn up...

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain...

Ramakanta is a businessman whose wife Lata dies under mysterious circumstances. Lata had adopted Rita, the daughter of Mamata, as she was childless....

Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently...

A romantic comedy about a series of clashes between the female residents of a ladies' hostel Basanta Bilap, and four boys of the neighbourhood, aided...

Jayanti takes up a job of a governess in the Roy family. Sanjoy Roy, the uncle of the five kids, is an arrogant man. Soon, Jayanti wins the kids'...

Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar...

Amal Basu, who decides to visit his hometown, meets Lila on the train. When he goes to his friend Nabendu's home, he learns that Lila is his sister...

Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They have to make four short story in this film...

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...

As an elderly couple prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary, their family begins to gather at their once magnificent mansion. Relatives, both...

Ekhonee depicts the lives and frustrations of a bunch of youth struggling to cope with the adversities of a bureaucratic society. There's a bunch of...

Salim Khan (Soumitra Chatterjee) and Madhuri (Aparna Sen) meet after a long separation. Their lives have changed a lot since they knew each other in...

Kajal, a dark-skinned woman, falls in love with Amit, an unemployed journalist. She urges him to focus on his career and provides unconditional...

Three single women, a professor, a banker, and a journalist, who are best friends, share their happy and joyous moments and support each other...

An insight into the life of late writer-director Rituparno Ghosh, the iconic cultural figure from West Bengal (India), who pushed and transgressed...

Suddenly a thief named "Nidhiram Sardar" totally changed the life of Kolkata police. He theft from the dishonest businessman and distributed them to...

Krishna Patil is a poor, unemployed, unsuccessful and short tempered youth who stays in a chawl with his father Ramakant and elder sister Mansi. He...

Sudhamoy is forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. His life takes a drastic turn when his wife falls ill and gets hospitalized.

Jayanti takes up a job of a governess in the Roy family. Sanjoy Roy, the uncle of the five kids, is an arrogant man. Soon, Jayanti wins the kids'...