Arundhati Debi

Megh-O-Roudra|
1959
Megh-O-Roudra
1959 | 96 min
A story when our nation was not independent and how the Britishers turned the law against the Indians for there needs. Even though the Indians were learned and educated still they were unable to fight against their injustice. the story also has a small back drop of a untold love story of a girl who had an urge of education.
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Janmantar|
1959
Janmantar
1959 | 106 min
Minu stumbles upon her neighbour's paintings that resemble her and is surprised to hear the story behind them. Ashish was in love with a girl called Kabi, who resembled Minu and took her life because of their separation due to caste differences. How will her past life and love affect Minu s present?
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Chalachal|
1956
Chalachal
1956 | 114 min
Sarama is a young Bengali girl living a simple life. She shares a bond with her classmate, Avinash, who likes her through the years. Life has new beginnings when she meets Bipin and they fall in love. But marriage and old bonds bring insecurities and lead to incidents that leave her all alone in life. Will she be able to come through?
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Prashna|
1955
Prashna
1955 | 102 min
Prashna is a 1955 Indian Bengali film, directed by Chandrashekhar Basu and produced by Saroj Mukherjee. The film stars Arundhati Devi, Tapati Ghosh, Sova Sen, Padmadevi, Asit Baran, Bikash Roy, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Prabir Kumar, Bibhu Bhattacharya, Ajit Chatterjee, Haridhan Mukherjee, Dhiraj Das, Jahor Roy and Ajit Prakash in lead roles. The film has musical score by Sachin Gupta.
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Bhagini Nivedita|
1962
Bhagini Nivedita
1962 | 129 min
From the early days in her life, Margaret was a very rational kid. She was often criticized in her Catholic school for raising to many questions, but this couldn't change her nature as she matured into a full-grown woman. She became a teacher in a school and at the same time, she never missed an opportunity to help the poor and distressed. Miss Noble lost her fianc in a tragic accident and was going through a very tough phase in her life when she came in touch with the Indian preacher Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji's speeches inspired Noble, so did his philosophy. Soon she became a follower of Swamiji and came to India with an urge of serving the cause of downtrodden people of the, then British colony. She was deeply moved to know how miserably the Indians live their lives, among insufferable poverty and a thousand religious superstitions. Being a believer of woman empowerment Noble took the mission of educating the females. She faced a few hardships initially, but under Swamiji's guidance, she soon adapted the Hindu culture. She sacrificed her life for the purpose of the Indians, be it nursing the affected in times of an epidemic or supporting the revolutionaries in their struggle for freedom.
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Kshudhita Pashan|
1960
Kshudhita Pashan
1960 | 100 min
A Tax collector, who is inclined to the works of Ancient art and culture, came to a rural city for his job. But he chooses to live in a haunted house. Another Bengali person from the local village and his colleagues actually informed him about the danger of living in that fort. But the person is basically fascinated by that piece of ancient work. At night he started to meet a dancer and developed a relationship with her. Slowly they beginning to wait for each other and thus they entered in to a relationship. But he then slowly realizes that this is a supernatural phenomenon and that girl is nothing but a ghost. So he tries to stay away from the fort but he cannot resist it. He has to comeback to the fort and he reveals the truth. Basically this phenomenon is story of reincarnation and rebirth. Two ancient characters were once loved each other against the will of the king. As a result of it the king sentenced the person in to a different location. A tragic end forced the soul to remain in that fort. The collector reminiscences the story and leaves the fort.
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Bicharak|
1959
Bicharak
1959 | 93 min
Gyanendra was a respectable lawyer with a respectable popularity. He was happily married to Sumoti who was a doting wife too. However Gyanendra had special feelings for his professor s daughter Sarama. One day a fire breaks out in Gyanendra s house. Sumoti dies. Gyanendra does not make any attempt to save her. Instead he married Sarama after the incident. After many years when Gyanendra becomes the judge, he is brought face to face with his guilty self when he realizes that the accused had committed the same kind of crime as he did many years ago. He realizes his crime.
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Jhinder Bondi|
1968
Jhinder Bondi
1968 | 103 min
The story of Jhinder Bondi is set in the surrounding of Jhind, a historical place in Madhya Pradesh. Sankar Singh, the prospective king of Jhind was abducted even before his coronation as a result of a dangerous plan, devised by his brother Udit and his corrupt ally Mayur Bahan. The truth is kept as a secret to prevent Udit from gaining the throne and a trusted troupe is sent to search for Sankar Singh throughout the country. Whilst searching vigorously for the prospective ruler Sankar Singh one of the royal guard spots, a young man from Calcutta, named Gauri Sankar Roy. The man bears an uncanny similarity with the real king hence the Royal guard requests him to play the proxy for the abducted king. Gauri Sankar, the adventurous man after hearing the cobweb of mystery that clouds Jhind agrees to act as the king of Jhind hence accompanies guard to the kingdom. The story moved on further and Gauri Sankar was crowned as the king of Jhind. The cunning Mayur Bahan and the baffled Udit devise a number of plans to destroy Gauri Sankar, however all goes in vain and the young Gauri Sankar with the help of Dewan, sardar and Rudrarup eludes them. However the story as we see Kasturibai , the queen of Jharoa, neighboring kingdom betrothed to Sankar, the real king. Gauri Sankar as the role-player again passes the test of being Sankar, the ruler during the engagement ceremony and wins the heart of Kasturibai. Sankar gradually started liking Kasturi and is torn inside because of his guilt. The search for the real Sankar Singh however still continues and the news of his whereabouts within no time reaches Sardar and Dewan. Meanwhile, Sardar also reveals an interesting story that links Gauri Sankar with that of a royal heritage and proves him to be a rather deserving candidate of Jhind than that of the original ruler.
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