Anjan Dutt
Also Known As: Anjan Dutt, Darjeeling Dutta, Anjan Dutta
Biography: Anjan Dutt also known as "Darjeeling Dutta" (born 19 January 1953) is an Indian film director, actor, and singer-songwriter- and a professional of the 1991s Bengali music scene defined by anyodharar gaan (alternative music), reminiscent of western folk music. His music is said to be influenced by blues, bluegrass, folk and country music.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Adult: No
Birthday: January 19, 1953
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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Danny Detective Inc.
Overview: Subrata Sharma is a reporter who leaves his job and joins a small time detective agency, Danny Detective Inc. in Kolkata. Working on a kidnapping case, his boss, Danny, is killed. Circumstances force Subrata to take up the case. He travels to the Dooars, south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, to unravel a big time criminal underworld. He takes up the responsibility of the agency. How will he succeed in catching the killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2021-11-02
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Mukhomukhi
Overview: An existential playwright and novelist Isha reads her novel to her partner, Agnibha, who is a ruthless critic. While in the middle of the reading, Agnibha presents his critical viewpoints, which initiates a discourse between them and unveils the cobweb of complexities in their love-hate relationship. Agnibha suggests a different ending to Isha's story. Will Isha understand Agnibha's point of view and change the ending of her novel? or Will this lead to more complexities in their lives?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Shilpi
Overview: A man, who works at the house of Roy Bahadur, falls in love with his daughter. However, Roy Bahadur wants his daughter to marry his friend's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1994-07-15
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Sunya Theke Suru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1993-07-15
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Byomkesh O Chiriakhana
Overview: The story revolves around a retired judge, Mr. Sen, living in a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city. The people who stay in the colony are a handful of social outcasts. One day, the judge is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and Byomkesh takes up the case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Palan
Overview: Kaushik Ganguly will bring the story of dismissal in his new film ‘Palan’ in the context of 2022. The characters of Kharij will remain the same, the names will not change. The story will change a bit to keep pace with the context of this era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Uro Chithi
Overview: Sorting through a backlog of email proves nostalgic and illuminating for a young alcoholic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-12
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The Bongs Again
Overview: 10 years after The Bong Connection, The Bongs Again is a journey of two young women. Sara, in her 20s, comes to Kolkata from the UK to look for her biological mother. Oli, also in her 20s, goes to London from Kolkata in search of her father who had left her and the family. The story takes us through their journeys, the connections they make, and the pursuit of finding their blood relations. The Bongs Again is fun-filled but with insights which change the way we perceive life. The film depicts today's cosmo Calcuttans and NRI Bengalis, their lifestyle, thinking, and approach towards life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2017-01-13
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Ranjana Ami Ar Asbo Na
Overview: A Bengali language rock musical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Crossroads
Overview: A gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the violent Naxalite movement in 70’s Calcutta.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Kaleidoscope Now
Overview: A tribute to auteur Mrinal Sen, the film intricately weaves the personal and professional journeys of Kunal Sen and Ranjan through their collaboration on an ambitious film project, Chaalchitra, in 1981.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2024-05-09
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World Within, World Without
Overview: 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 returns from Germany, his anxious questioning brings to light the disorientation experienced by the family and the way world history penetrates into the fabric of individual lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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Madly Bangali
Overview: Madly Bangalee is a Bengali rock band that inspires the film’s title. They rehearse in a dowdy garage of Kolkata, owned by Bobby (Lew Hilt), who owns Bobby’s Garage. Four young boys with stardust in their eyes practise their numbers not knowing what they are really aiming at. But the garage is under threat from a South Kolkata don Baburam (Chandan Sen). One morning, an elderly man, San (Anjan Dutt), arrives from "America and Paris." Baaji, (Sumit) the drummer who is a Muslim had to drop out of school. He escapes from the trap of turning a terrorist like his older brother Sultan. He later becomes a police officer who bashes up everyone who tries to bribe him. Neon (Tanaji) plays the rhythm guitar but, sucked into the world of drugs, he disappears from the face of the earth with his guitar. Pablo, lead singer, bass guitarist and lyricist, leaves for the US and the group breaks up. Bobby dies.
Genres: Music
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Aamaar Bhuvan
Overview: After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life. Things get worse when Noor returns to India as a married rich man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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Ei Raat Tomar Amaar
Overview: An elderly couple in their 70s revisit the regrets, heartbreaks, longing and acceptance in their five-decade-long marriage, all in one poignant night at their hillside retreat.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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Hemanta
Overview: Hemanta, a student of filmmaking in New York, returns to Kolkata before his mother is going to marry his uncle after his father's suicide. He receives a series of untraceable texts in riddles arising suspicion on the true nature of his father's death. He starts to lose his conscious self and plans on taking revenge upon the killers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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Shesh Boley Kichu Nei
Overview: Animesh is an NRI who comes to Kolkata after 30 years. His father-in-law, Mr. Chatterjee, hates him. He meets up with Andy who is a brilliant musician and a cocaine addict. So begins the story of the fight against drug abuse and a fight for creativity in a very dark social environment. Will Andy ever be able to escape?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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Haami 2
Overview: In the world of Haami, there's no anger, rivalry, talking bad, feeling low; there's only joy uninterrupted. The sequel focuses on reality television shows which often create undue pressure on children.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2022-12-15
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Revolver Rohoshyo
Overview: Subrata Sharma, an ordinary crime reporter, loses his job and takes up temporary work as a secretary in a rundown detective agency called Danny Detective INC. Appointed to find a missing girl Tamali, Subrata stumbles into dangerous situations that lead to a huge conspiracy.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Shreeman v/s Shreemati
Overview: Justice Amal Chowdhury, infamous for never granting divorces, throws a bickering couple, Sourav and Amrita, a curveball: a quirky role-reversal challenge to save their crumbling marriage. But things take an unexpected turn when Sourav learns the judge himself has been stuck in India's longest-running divorce case 27 years with his estranged wife, Aparna. What follows is a hilarious and heartfelt journey as Sourav teams up with Justice Chowdhury to reunite the old flames. Can their offbeat plan bring back lost love? This feel-good story blends laughter, love, and second chances in the most unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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Padatik
Overview: 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 hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2024-08-15
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Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
Overview: A bus is setting out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a strict orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai for her husband, with her young child, after the vacation with her parents. By chance, she gets a co-passenger who is also to Chennai, Rajah, a photographer, introduced by one of the friends of her father. During the journey they build a good relationship. But a Hindu-Muslim communal riot sets out in the meantime, in some areas they had to travel. Then she comes to face the fact that Rajah is not a Hindu but a Muslim whose real name is Jehangir. Even though she curses herself at that time while some Hindu fanatics evade their bus she saves him introducing as Mr. Iyer. But they have to reach their destination while the other passengers know Rajah as no one else but Mr. Iyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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Dekha
Overview: A journey through the life of an aged Bengali poet, Shashibhushan. Shashbhushan, now blind, reflects on his past. Stimulated by sounds - songs, crows, traffic, and an electronic lighter - he recalls the now-vanished arts and literature scene of post independence Calcutta. The old man lives in a crumbling aristocratic mansion in the heart of town, which he shares with his teacher's daughter, Sarama, and her young son Shumon. During a vacation in the country another man enters their lives. Gangan was born blind and is a talented singer. Gangan and Sarama engage in a secret affair as Shashibhushan recalls his own wife, who he lost because of his uncontrollable sexual appetite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2001-04-01
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Shaheb Bibi Golaam
Overview: Three very different people from three very different worlds collide one winter afternoon in an anarchic Kolkata.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2016-05-22
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Chitrangada
Overview: Rudra and Partho's desire to adopt a child leads Rudra to take the most crucial decision. Rudra decides to undergo sex reassignment surgery, so that they can be legally considered a couple and allowed to adopt a baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2012-05-24
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The Bengali Night
Overview: Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Jaani Dekha Hobe
Overview: A young musician and a fatso model have the same dream together, and they meet and fall in love at a bookstore. When their relationship starts to fall apart, an out-of-work magician steps in.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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City of Joy
Overview: Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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Saari Raat
Overview: Story of a couple on the second night of their wedding and how things unfurl in their lives.
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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Mahanagar@Kolkata
Overview: Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story is about people and their lives getting caught in the conflict between global change and old-world bigotry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2010-06-04
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Uma
Overview: To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
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Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Ek Je Chhilo Raja
Overview: Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people’s curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Byomkesh Gotro
Overview: Convinced that his life is in jeopardy, Satyakam, the son of a business magnate hailing from Mussoorie, approaches Byomkesh with a plea for help. The legendary detective soon heads to Mussoorie, where he finds out that the youngsters worst fears have come true. Can Byomkesh unravel the mystery shrouding Satyakam's murder before it is too late?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Borodin
Overview: Christmas in Kolkata gets celebrated by people from various spheres of life, who all are connected by a common thread of karma.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-12-24
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Ahare Mon
Overview: A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Uma
Overview: The movie tells the story of UMA, played by Alexandra Braun, who lives in Italy and meets a writer, interpreted by the also Venezuelan actor Orlando Delgado. There's is an inexplicable chemistry between both, which would later become a love story that springs up on the wonderful coasts of Gaeta, until crossing the beautiful land of Florence. An accident will change their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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Kaleidoscope
Overview: Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1981-01-07
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Dutta Vs Dutta
Overview: Dutta Vs Dutta is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Anjan Dutt. This is Anjan Dutt's semi-autobiographical film. Most of the film has been shot in a house of Amherst Street in Kolkata. Anjan has described this house resonated feel of his old house of Beniapukur.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2012-11-23
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Nirbaak
Overview: Nirbaak is a hyperlink narrative comprising four love stories connected by a single woman. Every love story comprises one entity which is silent and thus Nirbaak (Speechless)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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Ek Din Achanak
Overview: 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 disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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The Confined
Overview: The mistress of a wealthy man, alone in her huge apartment and terribly lonely, phones strangers in the middle of the night. One night she phones a young writer, and as the days pass and the conversations continue a relationship forms between two people who've never seen each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Aami Ashbo Phirey
Overview: Aami Ashbo Phirey is a musical that is about four different stories that are all connected by a violent incident. A young, unknown and unheard singer and songwriter accidentally enters the stories through virtual media and changes their lives for the better. The film re-asserts that art can surpass all differences, violence, intolerance and give them a chance to redeem oneself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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The Case Is Closed
Overview: A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The happy household is suddenly thrown into a psychological trauma. Torn between a sense of guilt and fear of a police case and consequently scandal, the employer and his wife expose their petty, hypocritical selves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Yugant
Overview: Deepak and Anasuya are an estranged couple, now leading separate lives in Cuttack and Bombay. They meet again after 18 months of separation, at a small fishing village where they had once honeymooned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Shankar Mudi
Overview: Shankar Mudi (শংকর মুদি) is a Bengali Political drama film directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay and produced by Kaustuv Ray.[1] This film was released on 15 March 2019 under the banner of RP Techvision India Private Limited. Bengali Actor-Director Shri Kaushik Ganguly plays the Titular role[2][3] and music direction of the film was made by Kabir Suman.[4]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Byomkesh O Agnibaan
Overview: The film starts with the hint of another story 'Satyanweshi' where young Byomkesh caught the head of a cocaine racket who is now seeking revenge. On the other hand, a young girl dies in mysterious condition having a match stick in her hand. One Kokonad Gupta, who claims to be a fan of Byomkesh gifts him a matchbox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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Satyanweshi Byomkesh
Overview: Based on the novel Magno Mainak by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, the film portrays the iconic Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi along with his friend Ajit Bandyopadhyay as he investigates the murder of a Pakistani spy named Heena Mallick. He begins the investigation at the request of a political leader, Mr. Santosh Samaddar, who was a close friend of Heena's parents and had given her shelter after her parents' death. Will Byomkesh succeed?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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Ghawre Bairey Aaj
Overview: Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-07-18
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Shunyo
Overview: Shunyo (Bengali: শূণ্য; English: Zero) is a 2013 Bengali film directed by Rudranil Ghosh, produced by Workshop Productions Pvt. Ltd. and starring Anjan Dutt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Bony
Overview: An American-born Bangladeshi scientist with suspected links to terrorism is looking for a Bengali couple to discover an uncanny nature of activities in their newborn son. Will they successfully safeguard the life of their child?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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Finally Bhalobasha
Overview: Finally Bhalobasha depicts three stories that narrate the relationships between people of different age and gender, which is considered as a social taboo in our society. The movie very aesthetically shows how people in such relations go through the test of time by mentally juggling the concept of sin and their need of physical longing that finally transcends into true love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-02-08
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Shah Jahan Regency
Overview: The story revolves around a hotel named "Shah Jahan Regency" and lives of people associated with that hotel. The hotel is one of a kind and very different from others as it strongly believes in the rich culture of India and tries to imply and maintain that in every aspect of the hotel - starting from the decor, to uniforms of the staff members, to the names given to various parts of the hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Shironam
Overview: Shironam is a nuanced drama, which revolves around the disappearance of a photo journalist on assignment. Initially, thought to be abducted by an outlawed political group, it turns out to be a completely different ball game. It leads to a myriad social drama, seen through the lens of TV journalists, editors and the commercial interests that drive the news industry. It shows the helplessness of the individual as a consequence of media war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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Saheber Cutlet
Overview: Chef Ronojoy Ray Choudhury wants to sell his ancestral house in Chandannagore in West Bengal, go to Paris and open his own café but finds a refugee family squatting there instead! When they refuse to budge, Ronojoy must think of a way to get rid of them. Would he dump his longtime supportive girlfriend Vania in Kolkata? Fate has its ways.
Genres: Music
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2020-10-20
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Palatak
Overview: A Telefilm by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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Sun Goes Around the Earth
Overview: Tapan Chandra Pal, a dogged former paratrooper and now a self-proclaimed scientist lives off footpaths in Kolkata. For 40 years, Pal has been propagating a theory that says humankind has been subjected to a massive scam over several centuries. Chirantan Chatterjee, a jaded and unhappy superstar fed up with the fake glitz and glamour of the world, seeks redemption by making a film on Pal's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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If Not For You
Overview: A tribute film on Bob Dylan, depicting Calcutta's affinity with Dylan through cityscape and interviews of notable Indian musicians who were inspired by him. The film also draws parallels between Dylan's body of work and the Baul tradition of Bengal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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At the Crossroads Nondon Bagchi Life and Living
Overview: A biographical documentary on eminent Indian rock and jazz musician and percussionist Nondon Bagchi and a generation of 60's musicians playing English rock music in India. The glorious journey was brought to a halt by the untimely passing away of key band members and left the remaining stranded at the crossroads grappling for survival and recognition in the face of state indifference and lack of support. Undaunted by personal and professional setbacks Nondon continues to rock his brand of 60's rock with cover band Hip Pocket and as a member of the internationally acclaimed Carlton Kitto Jazz Ensemble. The film is a homage to the maverick musician on the occasion of his 60th birthday, June 21 which is now celebrated as World Music Day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen
Overview: Documentary on Aparna Sen's life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-03
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