Sabitri Chatterjee

Dui Bon - 1955|
1955
Dui Bon - 1955
1955 | 94 min
Dui Bon' is the story of two cousin sisters Himani and Ulka. Ananda, an upcoming writer leaves his village to pursue his writing career in Kolkata. He rents a room in Mr. Bishwambhar Dutta's house. Ulka is Mr. Dutta's daughter and Himani is his niece. Ulka goes to college and pursues music while Himani is neglected and has to do the household chores. Ananda develops feelings for Himani. Ananda's book 'Jorer sanket' written under the pseudonym Gautam Basu gets good response from reader and Ulka falls in love with the writer. Ulka discovers a page written by Ananda an mistakes it for a love letter written to Himani. Ananda is thrown out of the house. After the release of Ananda's second book Ulka realizes her mistake. She also finds out that Ananda is actually Gautam Basu. Ananda and Himani's marriage is fixed. When Ulka finds out she tries to commit suicide but Kalipada's presence of mind saves her.
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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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Chheleta|
1986
Chheleta
1986 | 91 min
Chheleta is the story of Gopal, an orphan boy who lives in his own world that is close to nature. The milk-woman of the village and another village woman care for him but he is a carefree soul. His best friend is the stray dog. He is rebuked for his ways but he doesn t care for anything. He is thrashed by villagers for his naughty ways, thrown out of social gatherings but nothing affects him. The only being he is concerned about is the dog. So, when the dog is killed by Sammadar for eating his food he is left heartbroken. He is an ordinary boy close to nature in the imperialistic society and so seems to be a misfit.
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Abhoyer Biye|
1957
Abhoyer Biye
1957 | 127 min
Abhoyer Biye is family drama that revolves around a very different love story between our two protagonists, a simple and rich boy and a smart but careless girl. The movie is a very heartwarming tale of love, misunderstandings and a happy reunion and has much comical relief that adds to the whole plot. It shows the good nature of man that is always inherent in us.
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Sesh Raksha|
1977
Sesh Raksha
1977 | 122 min
Sesh Raksha is a 1977 Indian Bengali film, directed by Shanker Bhattacharya and produced by New Theatres. The film stars Sabitri Chatterjee, Anil Chatterjee and Sumitra Mukherjee in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Hemanta Mukhopadhyay.
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Abak Prithibi|
1959
Abak Prithibi
1959 | 98 min
Arjun is a very lonely person. He doesn t know what life is. Every day for him is a struggle. So he becomes a criminal. Jail is a safe custody for him because food is always available in jail. So he tries to return to the place, but all his efforts gone in vain, then he travels to a place and meets a father. He is the principal of a missionary residential school. In that place Arjun meets Miss Chaterjee, a teacher. At first she doesn t like him, but shortly she started to realise Arjun s quality. Arjun is an also a very good singer, but again for his bad reputation police catches him and send him to the jail. In court some students actually support him and thus all the misunderstanding solved and the truth prevails.
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Basu Paribar|
1952
Basu Paribar
1952 | 99 min
A job in the jute mill drive Sitesh away from his brother Nitesh and sister-in-law and lands him into a stream of marriage proposals and attempts by colleagues to make him their son-in-law. What will happen when he falls in love and is not accepted by the father of the girl? How will the drama end?
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Keranir Jibon|
1953
Keranir Jibon
1953 | 119 min
Mr. Bidhu has a happy family with two sons and four daughters who live together with love. Being the only earning member of the family, Mr. Bidhu works hard to earn and support them, facing the ups and downs, and every struggle together. Uncovering emotional layers through poverty, sickness, and love, Mr. Bidhu teaches the importance of family and hard work.
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Gali Thekey Rajpat|
1959
Gali Thekey Rajpat
1959 | 90 min
Raja was a professional thief who went to jail for a crime. His very close assistant Bhola waited for him and when Raja came back from jail, they started to plan for a bigger one. One day a family came to their locality. Within few days, Raja and Bhola became closer to that family. Mala was the only female earning member and she worked in theatre. Raja did not disclose his real identity and tried hard to impress her a lot. In the meantime, a tout Gobordhan nagged Mala a lot to join films. Raja and Bhloda gave him a good punishment and saved Mala in several situations. Later Raja tried to cheat a businessperson, but an unavoidable situation changed his life. At last, Mala came to know everything about Raja and accepted him as her partner. Raja also decided to change his life and put his best effort to become a good man. He meets Mala and asks her to forgive Raja. Raja once again regains Mala's love and the film ends on a happy note.
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Braja Buli|
1979
Braja Buli
1979 | 110 min
Brajaraj Karforma is a veteran office clerk, who usually came to office very late and likes to chat with every one. The main subject of his stories is his fictional heroic activities. At first he tries to knockout a freestyle wrestler with simple Bengali style. The entire audience actually tries to inform him that this is a dangerous game. But Brajanath never listens to anybody, so decides to fight that guy and won. Then when some young chaps in his neighbourhood told him to arrange some tickets for a test match he then conveys them his heroics about cricket. Once he strokes the ball in such a huge force that the ball cut into two pieces. One part was lost and the other part of the ball was caught by the fielder. Everybody is so fascinated about his heroics that nobody questions it and no body questions him about the decision of the umpire. Again in the office he says to the other colleagues that he is a very close friend of Charlie Chaplin and presents an idea about his filming experiences. Suddenly his boss came and charged him for not doing the work. It is basically a story which actually narrates about the stories and lifestyles of Brajanath.
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