Movies: Arun Mukherjee

This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone....

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 cla...

A child princess gets a harmonium from her father. Through fate and manager she is orphan, then widow and penniless. The harmonium, sold, changed hand and bringing ill-luck wherever it went. Will they ever meet? Under what circumstances?...

Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story is about people and their lives getting caught in the conflict between global change and old-world bigotry....

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...

Cornered by a snooty in-law amid an awkward family lunch, a middle-class man makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to take his wife and two daughters to Switzerland for a vacation....

Anuradha and Jeet, two musicians, fall in love and get married. However, things take a turn when Anuradha's professional life starts affecting Jeet....

A child in school uniform picks up broken remnants from a wall clock. Today happens to be the first day of school for Madhyamik and he is already late. The house is in a state of disarray, reflecting the chaos and lovelessness of outside – where ever...

Tired of the corrupt Communist regime and its policies, a group of flying humans and black magicians join forces to hatch a conspiracy and wage a guerrilla attack against the totalitarian government and overthrow it....

Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society...

Pankhiraj is a 1979 Bengali language Indian drama film directed by Pijush Basu, starring Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Nandita Bose, Samit Bhanja, and Utpal Dutta....

Jayabrata Ray, a teacher of a reputed school in Kurseong, finds himself in a helpless situation after losing his eyesight. Although the school authorities allow him to continue with his job for a while, but all hell breaks loose when he starts gettin...

An earthquake tears a businessman's family apart. Years later, they reunite in a courtroom trial where the father meets his sons under unprecedented circumstances....

Follows a group of old friends who reunite to revisit their golden days after being lost in their adult lives for the last 20 years....

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....

Aparna, the only daughter and the apple of her mother's eye is engaged at a young age to her childhood friend, Ajay. After her mother’s death, her father remarries, and her stepmother begins to mistreat her. Desperate, Aparna flees with the help of B...

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 t...

Peace Haven is the story of three friends in their 70's who journey to build a mortuary for themselves and in the process discover the meaning of life ironically through death....

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....

Brijlal, a cunning entrepreneur, plots to kill his partner and his son (Tapas Paul). However, the son survives and years later, ends up falling in love with Brijlal's beautiful daughter (Mahua Roy Choudhury)....