Sreela Majumdar
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Biography: Sreela Majumdar (died 1/27/2024) was an Indian film actress who was predominantly associated with Bengali cinema. She made her industry debut with the 1978 movie Parashuram, under the direction of Mrinal Sen, and then went on to be a part of several movies like Ek Din Pratidin, Akaler Sandhane, Chokh, and Arohan. She was seen as a woman from a brothel in director Shyam Benegal's 1983 film Mandi, starring Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the lead roles. She then featured as one of leads opposite Om Puri and Anil Chatterjee in the role of a widow in the film Chokh. She was also part of movies like Ek Pal (1986) and Prasab (1994). Her 2017 venture includes the drama Baranda, which depicts the complexity of human relationships through the lives of two people. The movie stars her as one of the leads opposite Manali Dey, under the direction of Reshmi Mitra. Her 2023 releases include Palan, directed by Kaushik Ganguly.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: January 27, 2024
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Gender: Female
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Rangamati
Overview: Simulpur is a village that believes in superstition so much that the local zamindar uses this ignorance to his advantage until they are all awoken from their ignorance by Parul who is labelled a witch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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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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Mon Mayuree
Overview: Priyo and Urmy are lovers who get separated due to the twisted ways of fate. Years later, when they meet each other, Priyo decides to help Urmy as she leads a troubled married life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1990-07-06
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Neelimay Neel
Overview: Sharmila is from an affluent family who falls in love with a poor but educated man, Anand. Trouble ensues when the couple finds it difficult to make ends meet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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Target Kolkata
Overview: The City of Joy, is a “target” for a gang of terrorists. The story carries the heroism of two persons Surya and Ganga. Surya who was assigned to the duty of imprisoning the culprits responsible for the explosion that shook the city and its inhabitants were in the grip of fear. Ganga was a hardworking lad and believed in doing anything that came his way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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Bhalobashar Bari
Overview: After her father becomes unemployed, Buli is forced to feed her family and starts working in a travel company. While many try to exploit her, she finds solace in her witty colleague Kalyan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-02-09
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The Parcel
Overview: Parcel is story of a doctor couple and Nandini the female protagonist suddenly starts receiving some unanimous mysterious parcels with some of her older and recent photographs. This process creates a turbulence in their family and they go verge of terminating their marriage. Nandini tries to find out the root cause anticipating some black mailing purpose with association of her past wrong doings (As per her perception ). Its a multi-layered social story under a health system backdrop where nothing comes as explicit but a fear psychosis based on anticipation jeopardize everything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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Shlilatahanir Pore
Overview: The film is based on the struggle of a molestation victim and how she comes out of depression with the help of a few friends. According to the director, the film is the story of many such victims in our society. It talks about the struggles they face in their day-to-day lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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The Man with the Axe
Overview: After being accused wrongly of theft, a slightly addled servant runs away to the city, carrying as his only real possession an axe, which he claims to have killed a tiger with. He takes up life among India's throngs of city-dwelling homeless, and for a little while almost has a decent time of it. He has a girlfriend, and one good friend, and gets by through begging and doing odd jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Jhorapalok
Overview: Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi", Jibanananda Das is the most read poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2022-06-23
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Damul
Overview: Damul (Bonded Until Death) highlights the ill effects of the Bonded Labour System while narrating the story of a bonded labor who is left with no choice but to steal by his landlord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Asol Nakol
Overview: After being cheated by his brothers and his wife Aparajita, Kalidas disguises himself as a Punjabi singer, Mohan Singh. Unaware that Mohan Singh is her husband, Aparajita falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1998-07-02
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Amar Challenge
Overview: Amar Challenge is a drama film directed by Nehal Dutta, featuring Ritika and Subham in prominent roles.
Genres: Romance Action
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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Teesta
Overview: Cocooned in the hilly wrap of Kalimpong, divorcee schoolteacher Teesta (Debasree Roy) feels she can't communicate with people any more. She speaks to the mountains instead, and even when a much younger man (Badshah Moitra) tries to ignite her passion, she remains aloof. Her second marriage is on the rocks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2005-12-30
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Samudra Saakshi
Overview: Manosi (Mamata Shankar) devotes her life to taking care of her family. When her son (Jisshu U Sengupta) grows up he doesn't respect her, but she continues to adore him. Her life takes an unexpected turn after her husband dies.
Genres: Family
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Dharasnan
Overview: In order to reach greater heights in her career, Tomosa is willing to go to any extent. Her over-ambitious nature lands her in a conflict with another woman, highlighting their different approaches towards life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Picnic
Overview: A TV film by Aparna Sen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Boundary
Overview: How friendship is meaningful in our life? Does it has any barrier by thought? Age, Color, race or religion? Let's make friendship universal -a circle free for better humanity.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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Arohan
Overview: Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives in the remote Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district with his wife, two sons, brother, an old widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The movie opens in the mid sixties when the Naxalbari uprising is spreading across Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who believe in communism and a socialist republic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-01-30
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Phool Aur Pathor
Overview: Nandu wants to take over Mastermoshai's property. Meanwhile, his daughter commits suicide after being raped by an evil thug but Mastermoshai's son, Swadhin, and his friend Azad expose the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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Puja
Overview: Puja, a village girl, works for Pratap Chowdhury as his maid. One day, she decides to help his daughter Moina when she learns that her in-laws are torturing her for not giving them dowry.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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Ek Pal
Overview: Based on a short story by Maitreyi Devi, Kalpana Lajmi’s directorial debut tells a story of extramarital affair in the tea gardens of Assam. Famous Assamese singer-composer Hazarika contributes some fine compositions, overcoming the mandatory emphasis on regional folk-music in films set in exotic locales.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Chopper
Overview: Rajat has inherited his brother's mantle as keeper of the family after his brother is killed in a union demonstration. Unlike his deceased sibling, Rajat is a dreamer whose ideals run counter to financial success, or even having a normal love relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1986-08-31
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Chokh
Overview: The film is set in during the Emergency period in December 1975. Jadunath a labour union leader, of Jethia Jute Mill in Kolkata has been given death sentence, for the murders of owner Jethia’s brother, and another worker, even though he never committed them. Before dying, he pledges his eyes for donation. However when the mill owner finds about this he tries to manoeuvre the medical system to get both the eyes for his blind son. Meanwhile the doctor discovers that the donation papers provided by the Jethia to be fake. Soon the mill workers get united behind the widow of Jadunath and hold protest rally against the injustice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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তালনবমী
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2006-07-14
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In Search of Famine
Overview: A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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The Deliverance
Overview: The film is about the travails and troubles of the Marxists revolutionaries in Bengal. It's about Samiran, a comrade who is imprisoned for life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1994-06-27
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And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
Overview: The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The saga begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope and of strength hidden behind despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1979-06-05
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The Ruins
Overview: Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Mukti
Overview: Arko is a school student who forms a beautiful bond with his teacher, Nayanika. It is more of a relationship between two friends rather than a student-teacher relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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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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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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Pratibad
Overview: A middle-class family struggle to make ends meet. Their only hope is their son Rana who always fights injustice which lands him a job in the police force and takes care of the family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Nagmoti
Overview: 1983 film by Gautam Chattopadhyay
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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Mandi
Overview: The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Baranda
Overview: Regressed Girija's insecurities take over his mind as he suspects that his truthful partner Runu is falling in love with a paying guest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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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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