Jyoti Prakash-roy

Prema Jyothi|
1984

Hoyto Manush Noy|
2018
Hoyto Manush Noy
2018 | 92 min
On a wintery morning in Kolkata, five people who leave the office at midnight take a cab ride home. During the course of the journey, they narrate stories of supernatural and spooky events they experienced, that go beyond the mundance corporate life. As their journey nears the end however, they realize they just had the journey of their lifetime.
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Naughty Boy|
1962
Naughty Boy
1962 | 120 min
Pritam (Kishore Kumar) shares a room with three absolutely unusual companions. The tenants are in constant fear of the frightful landlady who laid down her strict rules that outlawed love on the premises. On a rainy day, Pritam runs into a beautiful girl, Meena Sharma (Kalpana) and is smitten by her as their umbrellas get entangled. He goes to look for her house and discovers that she lives with her maternal uncle, a music maestro of sorts. Pritam enrolls himself in his class. Pritam and Meena continue meeting and fall in love with each other. When Meena's sister is about to get married, she travels to Pune and that's when Pritam finds out that her train had an accident and she has been listed as one of the dead. Heart-broken and devastated, he is severely depressed until his co-workers decide that he should go for a picnic and this does cheer him considerably. In this cheerful state he returns home and decides to carry on with life without Meena. It is then that Meena returns, very much alive, and finds out that Pritam is not in a state of mourning but is enjoying his life to the fullest. She decides to teach him a lesson which he would never forget. Watch what happens when the lesson commences and what impact this has on Pritam - who is also wooing a dancer by the name of Edna Wong.
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Subho Muharat|
2003
Subho Muharat
2003 | 154 min
The phrase "Shubho Mahurat" is associated with the beginning of shooting for a feature film. The first shot is marked by a grand reception. This Miss Marple-esque film begins with this event. An NRI producer, Padmini Chowdhury (Sharmila Tagore), has come to India to invest in a film. Her second husband Sambit Roy (Sumanta Mukherjee), an out-of-work director, is assigned the job of direction. The out-of-work director has a shady past. A witness to his shady past is an aspiring actor, who was subsequently thrown out of the acting circuit. This actor started a catering service for the film unit. The NRI producer insists on casting a retired actress, Kakoli (Kalyani Mandal) in a prominent role. Kakoli, a drug addict, subsequently dies under mysterious circumstances, on the day of 'Shubho Mahurat'. The journalist Mallika Sen (Nandita Das) is the only person present at the time of the death. The suspicion naturally falls on the husband of the actress, who reportedly has an amorous relationship with another lady. The unnatural death of the actress causes a police investigation. An IPS officer named Arindam (Tota Roy Chowdhury) takes up the investigation. During the course of investigation, Arindam befriends Mallika. Meanwhile, Mallika catches the fancy of a still photographer named Jojo (Anindya Chatterjee) who, incidentally, is closely related to the NRI producer. This NRI producer had a past no less interesting than the other protagonists. The NRI producer was an actress of repute in her heyday. She divorced her husband and left the country to settle abroad. Before that, she had given birth to an abnormal child. The course of the film reveales that she bore a grudge against Kakoli for spreading a contagious disease to her while she was pregnant, resulting in the abnormal child. Another amorous affair runs parallel to the main theme: The camera assistant was repenting for his past affair with the hairdresser. The hairdresser has her problems and she was extracting money very often from the camera assistant. All through the movie, the aunt of the journalist, Ranga Pishima (Raakhee), gives vital leads to the investigation through deductive logic. She is able to read the mind of the niece correctly. Her valuable inputs finally leads to solve the murder mystery.
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Kahini|
1995
Kahini
1995 | 99 min
One day Rajat decides to kidnap a child. But before he can work out a proper plan, a mysterious stranger gives him old documents, court transcripts and a partly burned photo from his childhood. This disturbing picture is just what confirms Rajat s determination to carry out his plan. His accomplices are a taxi driver and a sign painter. They set of on a strange journey with the kidnapped child, getting more and more entangled in weired experiences and frightening encounters. Crossing a dark forest they suddenly come upon a ruined house. Here the trio meets Tarak Das, the stubborn housekeeper who firmly belives that he can eventually cure the hopeless condition of his little spastic child. Meanwhile the kidnapped child gets worse and worse. Worry and fear only add to the confusion. But then it becomes clear that the picture on the partly burned photo resembles this child.
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Natoker Moto|
2015
Natoker Moto
2015 | 120 min
Journey of a female theatre artist is always a multi-dimensional conflicting experience as a girl, as a woman and even as an artist. It is more so especially when a woman is of maverick capability and excellence beyond her time. Whilst the film depicts the scenario of Kolkata socio-cultural circuit spanning from 1950 to 1970s, it aspires to bring about the struggles and conflicts that a female artist has to go through even after two decades of globalization. The film, through an investigation of the sudden demise of an extremely reputed actress's death delves into an ongoing search behind the causes of ceaseless conflicts that a female artist has to confront, and is made to remain submissive in the paradigm of male domination. The film intends to get into precise details of the artist's life so as to expose the obstructions, understand the strength of creative aspirations, and ablaze with the delightful journey of the artistic soul that unfortunately got cut short.
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Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu|
2006
Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu
2006 | 174 min
Raghavan (Kamal Haasan) is an honest cop in tam Nadu. His wife Kayalvizhi (Kamalinee Mukerji) dies in a violent incident. Arokiyaraj (Prakash Raj) is his colleague. Raghavan is deputized to investigate Arokiya Raj's daughter Rani's murder in some remote village in tam Nadu. Arokiya Raj shifts his base to New York after his daughter's murder.After 9 months; Raghavan receives message about the gruesome murder of Arokiya Raj and his wife. He proceeds to New York to conduct preliminary investigations; with the help of NYPD detective Anderson. There; he saves Aradhana Arun (Jyothika) from committing suicide due to problems with her estranged husband. Raghavan unearths a series of murders of young girls murdered in New York. He finds a pattern in those murders and finds resemblance to Arokiyaraj's daughter's murder in India. He now starts on the trail of the serial killer; a hunt that will take him across India and U.S.A
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