Joydeb Sen

Joydev|
1952
Joydev
1952 | 101 min
Joydev was great religious poet from West Bengal, who was inspired by Radha and Krishna. He goes through all the pains and perils to devote his whole life in the praise of God. While he goes onto perform miracles, his journey isn t as easy since he put through various trials too, showing his reverence and the touch of destiny that he holds.
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Aainaate|
2008
Aainaate
2008 | 113 min
Malini (Rituparna Sengupta) is a photo journalist, recapitulating her childhood memories while recollecting her family attachments she remembers the detachment from her inner self grounded by the molestation in her teenage. Malini is now a well-versed photographer working in some magazine. Her photographic skills explore through the various special expressions of the people when they are dead and seeks to find out the emotions of the pale and white faces. During these on going course of actions she comes in contact with Urmila Sanyal (Rati Agnihotri), the leading social activist who has dedicated her life to the service of the exploited and distressed women of the society. She gets romantically involved with Rajat who is the lavish brat of a big businessman along with her family support but then nobody is ready to bear its outcomes. It is then when she becomes pregnant, she realizes the real faces of the people whom she has been respecting and admiring so much. In a moment she is being out castled and constantly pressurized to surrender to the patriarchal will. But revolting against it she comes to discover the illegitimacy of her own birth and finds Urmila Sanyal as her escapist mother, who was scared of the social accusations.
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Byang Raja|
2005
Byang Raja
2005 | 38 min
Byang Raja (Frog King) is about a fairy tale that a granny tells her grandchildren. One day a princess loses her favorite earrings. A frog comes and offers to help her on the condition that she ll marry him. The princess agrees. The frog finds the earrings and the princess is forced to marry him and settle far away in the forest. The princess detests the frog but has no option. An old man visits the princess on her birthday and blesses her. A goon comes to abduct her and wants to marry her. She protests and says that she is married. The old man transforms the man into stone. The frog is very happy when he hears that the princess has accepted him as her husband. He tries to get close to her but the princess slaps her and this transforms him into a prince. He reveals that a curse had turned him into stone. The prince and princess live happily ever after.
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