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Srijit Mukherji’s Tale of Kings
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In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.
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Qissa
Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
Rosogolla
Based in the backdrop of 19th century Bengal, Rosogolla is a story of a young man with a romantic heart and brilliant mind — Nabin Chandra Das, who had set his heart on making the most delicious sweet of all time for his wife, Khirodmoni. Rosogolla is a story of the many trial and tribulations in his journey of making something unique, of innocent love, struggle and human aspiration for novelty.
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
1930, British India: In the province of undivided Bengal lies the sleepy, peaceful port of Chittagong. In this unassuming little town a revolution is about to begin; a revolution which will forever wake all of Chittagong and inspire the entire nation.
Komal Gandhar
Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and class-struggle.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
The Cloud-Capped Star
The tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan. Neeta, the protagonist, sacrifices everything for her unappreciative family.
Their Story
Shibnath is released from prison after serving eleven years for assaulting a British officer. His family has now become refugees, with his homeland, following Partition, belonging to a new nation. His wife urges him to make ally with his friend Bipin who is willing to capitalize on Shibnath's legendary reputation for patriotism, by asking to accompany him in electoral campaigns. In exchange, Bipin is ready to arrange Shibnath the job of a school master. However, Shibnath remains disillusioned and mystified by the life that now lies before him away from his beloved—and irretrievably lost—homeland.
Target: The Final Mission
Shubhankar is an honest police inspector who is an encounter specialist. He is posted in Sundarpur in North Bengal, which is ruled by various mafias.
Meghe Dhaka Tara
Nilkantha, an artist, is admitted in a mental asylum but even while undergoing treatment, he manages to write a play.
Guptodhoner Sondhane
The sudden demise of his maternal uncle leaves budding lawyer Abir in charge of his ancestral property. Accompanied by his friend, philosopher, and guide Subarna Sen, aka. Sona da, Abir visits his ancestral mansion only to figure that his uncle has left behind for him a series of clues to unearth the hidden treasure of Mughal prince Shah Suza kept secured within the property. Jhinuk, Abir's crush, joins them in the quest. Soon, Sona da, Abir, and Jhinuk are caught in a web of mystery and deceit.
Bagha Jatin
Jatindranath Mukherjee is an Indian independence activist. He is the principal leader of the Jugantar party that is the central association of revolutionary independence activists in Bengal.
Manojder Adbhut Bari
A young boy Manoj, who lives among the chaos and weirdness of his joint family, where the musician uncle feels suicidal after singing a wrong music note and a teacher who won't remember his education if he sits straight. Then there is the great-grandmother who is wreaking havoc around the house. Set in a small town in West Bengal, the story takes an interesting turn when Manoj's cow runs away and at the same time there is a group of vicious dacoits who are planning to rob the King. How things fall back into place is a story filled with drama and action and lots of laughter.
F.I.R NO. 339/07/06
An upright but idiotic police officer arrives in Raghunathpur, Birbhum, West Bengal to investigate a murder and realises there is more to the crime than meets the eye.
Train to Pakistan
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task
Dharmputra
During the British rule in India, the families of Nawab Badruddin and Gulshan Rai in Delhi are so close that they virtually share the same house. Husn Bano, the daughter of the Nawab, has an affair with a young man named Hamid. When she gets pregnant, her lover abandons her.
Subarnarekha
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.
8/12 (Binay Badal Dinesh)
Based on the historical attack on Writers' Building by three Bengal Volunteers in 1930. Releasing on Indian Republic Day.
Manobjomin
Kuhu, a young girl, runs an NGO named Manobjomin, that works for the development of the underprivileged girls from the rural sectors of Bengal. Sanket, her lover, a banker, is also very attached to Kuhu`s NGO. Stuck in a financial crisis, can they save Manobjomin?
The Eunuch and the Flute Player
Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.
Baishey Shravana
The tragic story set in the late 1930s, just before famine struck Bengal. It tells of the marriage of a dumpy middle-aged salesman of small goods to a beautiful teenager, and how, after initial days of happiness together, a series of misfortunes strike which slowly embitter the man.
In Search of Famine
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.
Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya
The film is an emotional drama based on the generations who have suffered ]he divide families following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Commrade
The story based on the Singur - Nandigram violence which took place in the period of 2006 to 2007 in West Bengal. A peasants movement starts against land acquisition policy by the Government for industrialisation. The government stick on the point to acquire lands for a factory. Party workers confront with the farmers on the issue. Two women, Nandini and Radharani become the leader of the uprising. Nandini is gang-raped and murdered by Comrades and Radharani commits suicide. Those horrific incidents make villagers to more united for their rights. Later Supreme Court of India orders to stop the land acquisition.
Partition: The Day India Burned
Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. The story is told through the testimony of people who lived together for centuries, but were forced out of their homes as one of the largest and most ethnically diverse nations in the world was divided. Dramatised reconstructions evoke some of the mistrust, violence and upheaval that ensued
The Royal Bengal Tiger
Abhirup is a typical Bengali guy who has a happy family but he doesn't know how to protest. Everything was going very good but suddenly from his office to his personal life so many problems accrued in his life due to his scaredy attitude. Then his imaginary childhood friend Anjan comes into his life and changes his life completely.
Kinare Kinare
After losing his family during partiton Puran is taken in by a landowner and he falls in love with the daughter, Neelu, but is unable to declare his love and then Neelu falls in love with Kamal, a young graduate from Bombay.
Pradhan
Deepak Pradhan, a young police officer, gets transferred to North Bengal where his junior officers are involved in corrupt practices. When disturbing events from the past start to surface and the pressure builds, will Deepak be able to hold on to his principles to save his integrity and loved ones?
Vasthuhara
Vasthuhara (Malayalam: വാസ്തുഹാര English: The Dispossessed) is a Malayalam social film by the late G. Aravindan which looks into the lives of partition refugees from East Bengal to West Bengal.