Mamta Shankar

Shanka Ravam|
1987

Warrish|
2004
Warrish
2004 | 131 min
The film revolves around the characters Shubhankar (played by Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), Vidhi (Debashree Roy) and Medha (Churni Ganguly). Medha is an ex-flame of Subhankar. Medha becomes pregnant after rendezvous with Subhankar. Though Medha was not married with Subhankar, she denies abortion and gives birth to a son, Megh. Many years later, when Medha is suffering from cancer, comes to meet Shubhankar, discloses about her condition and requests him to take Megh into his care. At this time Subhankar is married to Vidhi. So, he feels hesitant and shocked. Medha stays in Shubhankar's home and tells Vidhi that she is Shubhankar's distant relative. Vidhi starts caring for Medha like her own and makes her stay with them until the treatment is over. Medha's condition worsens and finally she dies.
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Anubhav - Bengali|
1993
Anubhav - Bengali
1993 | 128 min
Anubhav is a 1993 Indian Bengali film, directed by Deb Kumar Bose and produced by Debasish Bose. The film stars Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Ritu Das, Shirsha Sen and Smita Sinha in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Kanu Bhttacharya.
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Prajapati|
1993
Prajapati
1993 | 164 min
Prajapati is an Indian bengali movie directed by Biplab Chattopadhyay and produced by Rajesh Kumar. The fllm stars Biplab Chattopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Soumitra Chatterjee, Soma Mukherjee and Mamata Shankar in the lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Mrinal Bandopadhyay.
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Sonar Harin|
1959
Sonar Harin
1959 | 124 min
Jayanta Chowdhury, a ground engineer is gravely injured and is received by his fiance, Kuntala who takes care of him. However Jayanta is not at peace as he had smelled conspiracy. He returns to Kolkata much to Kuntala s dismay and starts following another ground engineer Sandeep Mukherjee, who he believes is playing up against his employer. Jayanta gets together with the Intelligence Officer Ranjit Mitra and traces Sandeep s wherabouts. Sandeep is actually involved with the criminals Krishn Chand and Abdullah who force him to plant a bomb in an international aeroplane. Sandeep, rather unwillingly gives in as he needs money to treat his handicapped younger brother. Although he loves a girl named Ruby he is unable to marry her because of the same reason. Jayanta takes up the name of Arun Ray and befriends Sandeep to know about him. He soon realizes that Kuntala was Sandeep s sister. In the meantime, Sandeep is made aware of Jayanta s identity and his relationship with Kuntala and he decides to own up everything to him. However he is shot by the criminals but manages to own it up just before he dies. The criminals are caught and their conspiracy fails. Jayanta and Kuntala get together again.
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Grihayuddha|
1984
Grihayuddha
1984 | 92 min
"The Chief labour officer of a private steel company in Barrackpur senses corruption in the management. An idealist he resigns and is murdered. The secretary of the trade union, Probir gets to know of it and is murdered. His comrade Bijan manages to escape and absconds. Nirupama, the sister, who silently cherishes Bijan, along with Sandipan, a reporter, tracks down the hired gang of killers, which include Sital, the goal keeper in a smalltime football team. Sital reveals that they had been lured with the promise of a job. But the promises were not kept and sital wishes to disown his past. Meanwhile, Bijan has made good as a salesman in Nasik and returns to Calcutta as a changed man. His values had been eroded by time and success. He tries to justify his desertion of his earlier convictions, but fails to convince Nirupama. He wants a settled married life with Nirupama. She still clings to the ideals of her dead brother. But confusion and desperation forces Nirupama to accept his proposal. On the date of marriage, Sandipan is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Confused, Nirupama wants to postpone the marriage. Quarrels follow and Nirupama realises that the void between them is too wide to be bridged. The rift, however, forces a helpless girl to the threshold of self awareness. She realises that she, The film ends with Niupama beginning the struggle all by herself.
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Nayantara|
1997
Nayantara
1997 | 108 min
She was a renouned theatre artiste and was married to an artist named Manik Dutta. However soon Manik gives into drinking and gambling and loses all the money. He becomes a parasite on Nayantara who becomes the sole bread earner of the family. She sees worst days and after her husband dies and takes up the responsibility to bring up her son Kumar. As Kumar grows up he opens a electronics shop which does not run well and Nayantara continues performing in the theatre managing barely to earn some money. They live in dilapidated conditions in a small house. Kumar is an introvert and although he loved his mother, the communication between the mother and the son was ambigious. In the end, Nayantara succumbs to Cancer and leaves the world, thus ending a lifetime struggle.
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Ekdin Pratidin|
1980
Ekdin Pratidin
1980 | 86 min
"Ek Din Pratidin is a story of a family of seven members with father, mother, three sisters and two brothers is solely dependent on the earning of the eldest working girl. The story unfolds slowly when the working girl doesn't return home that night. Sometimes she came late for the job pressure. The younger sister calls her at the office number to see if her sister is still at the office. She returns home without being able to contact her sister. Now the family members get panicky, and the father goes out and watches the life outside, but he can not locate his daughter. When the last bus also passes by, he gives up hope and returns home. Soon the inmates of that multi-storied building where both the landowner and his several tenants reside together get wind of the fact that their girl has not returned home that night. The reactions from the various neighbors then came into play. Some makes acerbic comments, while others are very sympathetic. In the morning hours, the small girl of the family sights her eldest sister coming back. Surprisingly, everyone in the family eyed her with suspicion and didn't even ask her as to where she had been the previous night. However, the landlord comes down and asks father to vacate the house as soon as possible.
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