Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi’s naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.Read More »
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Satyajit Ray – Nayak AKA The Hero (1966) (HD)
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Yashaswini Raghunandan – That Cloud Never Left (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalIndiaYashaswini RaghunandanQuote:
Director Yashaswini Raghunandan has a perceptive sense of humour. Her film That Cloud Never Left opens with a title card that reads, “This is a work of fiction. Only people, places, and the work are real. For the rest, any resemblance to anything that might have actually happened or dreamt of is purely co-incidental.”Read More » -
Tapan Sinha – Wheel Chair (1994)
1991-2000DramaIndiaTapan SinhaSushmita is paralysed below her neck while escaping a rape attempt. She is admitted to a private nursing home for neurological handicapped patients run by Dr. Mitra, himself a paraplegic. Here she meets a wide variety of patients. Her case is handled by a young physiotherapist Santu, who works hard and soon she can move her fingers. During the process. Santu and Sushmita fall in love but she won’t hear of marriage till Santu tells her that they can live a normal married life and have children. Santu very dramatically convinces her that she can even work in an office.Read More »
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Mrinal Sen – Calcutta 71 (1972) (HD)
1971-1980DramaIndiaMrinal SenPoliticsQuote:
An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.Read More » -
Tapan Sinha – Nirjan Saikate AKA The Desolute Beach (1963)
1961-1970ClassicsDramaIndiaTapan SinhaSynopsis:
A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri, one of them played by Sharmila Tagore. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the taboos of widowhood emerge; but so, too, does a philosophy of life and hope for the future. The performers collectively won Best Actress at India’s National Film Awards in 1964. Director Tapan Sinha creates another great film of novelistic complexity.Read More » -
Buddhadev Dasgupta – Kalpurush AKA Memories in the Mist (2005)
2001-2010Buddhadev DasguptaDramaIndiaSynopsis:
The film tells the story in a non-linear fashion, with two timelines being depicted simultaneously. Rahul Bose has a dysfunctional marriage with Sameera Reddy who has an extra-marital affair. Rahul tries to reconnect with his long-lost father (played by Mithun Chakraborty), while Sameera dreams of breaking free of her stifling domestic life. Rahul is considered as a failure both in professional and personal lives. However, an honest and simple man, he clings to simple joys of life and memories of his childhood. The back-and-forth movement of the story between two timelines (the present day and Rahul’s childhood) and the arrangement of the sequences make Mithun a mystery man—he could be dead, alive, or, just a figment of Rahul’s imagination.Read More » -
Buddhadev Dasgupta – Tope AKA The Bait (2016)
2011-2020Buddhadev DasguptaDramaIndiaThe tales of an eccentric aristocrat, a tightrope walking nomad and a postman-turned-soothsayer unspool in this visual poem of rural life in India.Read More »
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Buddhadev Dasgupta – Urojahaj AKA The Flight (2020)
2011-2020Buddhadev DasguptaDramaIndiaThe Flight (Urojahaj) describes the mad dream of a simple man to fly the rusted shell of a downed World War II Japanese fighter plane that he finds in the forest.Read More »
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Buddhadev Dasgupta – Tahader Katha AKA Their Story (1992)
1991-2000ArthouseBuddhadev DasguptaDramaIndiaThree years after the partition of India, Shibnath returns from 11 years of imprisonment. He tries to pick up his life again but his past experiences make it impossible.Read More »