Movies: Ahindra Choudhury

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...

The wealthy, self-obsessed, and possibly crazed Manoj (Barua) is sent by his concerned family to the rural estate of his future father-in-law. Along the way, however, he gets lost and soon finds himself taking shelter in the abode of the railroad sta...

Ambernath a well-educated Sanskrit pundit was different from his childhood. The way he thought and described everything was quite different from others. His master Jagannath Tarka Churamoni loved him a lot and after his death, Ambernath took his plac...

A 1935 Bengali Film directed by Jyotish Bandyopadhyay....

Dakshayagna is a pivotal tale in Hindu mythology. It recounts the grand sacrifice ritual organized by Daksha, where his daughter Sati, wife of Lord Shiva, tragically immolates herself due to her father's insult to her husband. Enraged by this, Shiva ...

Shyamali, who is both hearing and speech impaired, faces several struggles in life. While the man she marries supports her, she is not accepted by her in-laws....

Manoj is from the aristocratic class but has some sort retrograde amnesia; he belongs to the upper-class but is also an outsider, something that enables the possibilities of movement across the class-lines for him. This trope is essential for Barua t...

A 1939 Mythological Bengali Drama film directed by Hari Bhanja....

A timeless tale of love and devotion, Prabhas Milan transports viewers to ancient India. Set centuries after Krishna departs from Brindavan, the film explores the longing of Radha and the celestial drama that unfolds when Krishna promises his queen, ...

Durgeshnandini is a sweeping historical drama set against the backdrop of 16th-century India. This epic tale follows the intertwined destinies of Jagat Singh, a Mughal general, and Tilottama, a Bengali princess. Their love story unfolds amidst the tu...

The life of renowned Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta....

One of the early films of Chhabi Biswas featuring him as a leading man, before he came to be associated with the dominating patriarch roles that have become iconic in Bengali cinema, the film is a tale of the love, relationships and ideals of two gen...

When Mr. Mukherjee's wife drowns herself in the Ganges to save her ailing husband, people start showering her with respect. Years later, things head towards the same direction for her daughter. Uma meets her rival Mrinaal with almost compassion, keep...

A 1955 Bengali Drama Film directed by Haridas Bhattacharya....

The rustic girl left this world and went to heaven. Her Painful memories are what remains behind. The injustice exploitation is suffocating. These conflicts within the unfortunate soil of India have taken many lives. There’s cruelty amongst mankind. ...

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Four sets of friends spend Halloween weekend at the Beautiful Creekside "Kamp of Antietam". Each attending is promised a "Once In A Lifetime" experience, but there's more than just fresh air and fishing going on at the K.O.A....

A 1949 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Deb Narayan Gupta....

For the first time in Indian cinema, flashback was used for storytelling....

Lord Krishna visits Suryapith with his friend Akrur, where they meet Satyabhama, the daughter of Satrajeet. Akrur proposes to Satyabhama, but she addresses him as a brother, leading him to resent Krishna. Satyabhama, however, falls in love with Krish...