Sabita Banerjee

Mantu|
1978
Mantu
1978 | 60 min
Mantu is a 1978 Indian Bengali film, directed by Durga Bhattacharya and Produced by Durga Bhattacharya.The film stars Dipen Acharya,Sabita Banerjee,Sanhita Banerjee,Jharna Bhowmick & Madhuri Chatterjee in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Durga Bhattacharya.
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Ananda Niketan|
1991
Ananda Niketan
1991 | 123 min
Rumi is rich man s daughter. She is beautiful, talented and charming. Her marriage gets fixed and Rumi can t wait to step into her new life when she comes to know that her fianc has an affair. Rumi is shattered. She runs away from her house to find the lady. Ayan, a simple and easy-going man decides to help her. He becomes her driver and together they start their expedition. On their way, they halt at a hotel called Ananda Niketan . Ayan and Rumi pretend to be husband and wife and start staying there. The hotel is run by an old couple. Here Rumi gets exposed to the real world which was unseen to her all this while. She and Ayan gets to know each other and stumble upon many bitter sweet memories. Finally she meets the lady who tells her that she does not want to marry her fianc . But by now, neither does Rumi because she has fallen in love with Ayan and so has Ayan. They get together.
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Jora Dighir Chowdhury Paribar|
1966
Jora Dighir Chowdhury Paribar
1966 | 95 min
The Choudhurys were zamindars however many many years ago it was said that their main income used to be through robbery. The youngest zamindar and did not take much interest in his work. His grandfather decides to give his hand in marriage to a beautiful lady in the neighbourhood zamindar named Indrani. The young zamindar and Indrani had seen each other before and it was love at first sight. The marriage was fixed. In the meantime, he goes to Palasi and rescues a poor lady named Banalata from the hands of another cruel zamindar named Parantap. Circumstances become such that the young zamindar is forced to marry Banalata in Palasi. As they return to Joradighi, the grandfather refuses to accept the newly wed bride into the family but later melts at the sight of her. When Indrani comes to know about the marriage she is shattered. In sheer agony, she decides to marry Parantap. However she sees worse days after marriage. Parantap was a drunkard scoundrel. He cheated on her. In the meantime war breaks out as Raktadighi inflicts war on Joradighi but gets captured by the latter. Indrani and the young zamindar meet at the warfield where she comes to know the situation in which Lekhel married Banalata. Indrani realizes her mistake. Her pride is shaken. She commits suicide.
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Mahishasur Badh|
1952
Mahishasur Badh
1952 | 94 min
Mahishasur gets power from Lord Brahma, but misuses it to torture the earthlings and human beings, and forces them to worship him. His greed for strength and of being feared is cursed by a Brahmin, who was tricked by Mahishasur during meditation. Devi Durga defeats him in an epic battle and Mahishahur gets killed by a woman as said in the curse.
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Manjari Opera|
1970
Manjari Opera
1970 | 142 min
Manjuri Opera is a social drama that is based on the life of struggle of our main lead and his love and the lifestyle in the line of theatre and drama. It shows the life of earlier time in Bengal, the prejudices existing in society that prevail even now, the good and bad side of man, and how a true love survives all obstacles to unite as one in the end. It shows the complications in human relations and how misunderstandings can upset all good things. The movie ends on a happy note where the hero realizes his mistakes and make amends for his mistakes.
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Priya - Bengali|
1992
Priya - Bengali
1992 | 128 min
Haribhushan and Shyamchoron are close friends who dream of their children getting married to each other. But Sarbari and Sobhon, incompatible and different, try drifting their fathers apart just to avoid getting together. When fate intervenes, feelings change and they fall in love. But, will their fathers reconcile now?
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Rajeswari|
1984

Ashani Sanket|
1973
Ashani Sanket
1973 | 97 min
Gangacharan, an educated Brahmin, has arrived to settle in the village with his wife, Ananga, a sensitive woman, giving and devoted to her husband. The distant World War II changes the village. Gangacharan is only little more informed than the villagers. As a few aeroplanes disturb the peaceful sky, the word goes around that the war will result in a scarcity of rice and as a result the price of rice soars. To eat, the villagers are reduced to animal-like existence, forced to beg for food. Ananga offers to work for food and she goes to work with other village women. Ananga along with Chutki goes to the forest to look for wild potatoes. A man tries to take Ananga. Chutki kills the man with the bar she used to dig potatoes. An untouchable-caste woman dies for hunger; the first starvation death in the village. Gangacharan, breaking the taboo, give her a proper cremation. Even as we learn that Ananga is pregnant, we see the villagers leave in search of food in silhouettes. The screen is filled with a statement - Over five million died of starvation and epidemics in Bengal in what has come to be known as the man-made famine of 1943.
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