Satya Banerjee

Marg|
1996
Marg
1996 | 88 min
Two friends, Chandrakant and Satyapriya, have contrasting lifestyles; while Chandrakant is a greedy man only after wealth, Satyapriya believes that eternal joy lies in service to mankind. They realize the true purpose of life only on their deathbeds.
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Janani - Bengali|
1971
Janani - Bengali
1971 | 106 min
Janani is the struggle that a mother goes through to bring up her three children after the sudden death of her husband. The mother toils hard and raises her sons Upen and Bhupen to be a lawyer and doctor respectively. Her daughter Charu falls in love with a boy from a rich family. To get her married in a lavish ceremony Upen and Bhupen marry Bani and Lina and give their dowry for their sister. But, the new brides are unhappy as they had to give away their ornaments to their sister-in-law. Upen's wife Bani starts creating problems regarding small issues. When their mother tells them to pay the loan she had taken from Bipin to raise them they initially agree to share the burden. But. Bani, Upen's wife instigates him and he refuses. Upen decides to separate from his brother. Their mother is shattered when the brothers start fighting to decide with whom their mother will stay. She leaves home. The brothers realize their mistake. They bring their mother back and are happily united.
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Atikram|
1994
Atikram
1994 | 119 min
Atikram is a social drama that based on the darker side of society and all the complications and evils that it holds. It shows through the lives of its main characters, how seemingly good people turn out to be monsters who only use and destroy innocent lives. It is a story about love, hate, greed and lust, betrayal and fraud, deceit and pretence. It shows how often people misuse and take advantage of people to fulfill their needs. The movie offers a hard hitting social message to be aware of all anti-social elements in society and to let evil take over without a fight. It strengthens our faith in the legal system and shows that there is still hope for the common man.
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Madhuganjer Sumati|
1988
Madhuganjer Sumati
1988 | 111 min
A story about the ups and downs in the daily life of an average man. Through the themes of education and marriage, the movie shows struggle in love and marriage and how every situation changes a man s attitude and character. Will the characters live at a happy note in the end?
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Chorus|
1974
Chorus
1974 | 111 min
During the decade of 1970, a company decided to recruit 100 stuffs for their vacant positions. But the number of unemployed youth was so much that almost 30000 people applied for that job. Here Mrinal Sen neatly introduced some characters who actually portrayed the scenario in which they were going through. A journalist actually recorded all reports direct from applicants when they were queued up for the collection of forms. Some of them were victimized by black marketers, some families were facing labour problem due to company lockouts. But everybody was standing for the collection of form for those vacant positions. The pressure was increased day by day, at last the management had to call the police to tackle the situation. Suddenly few posters were seen on the sides of the roads and pavements. Those 30000 applicants became united. Some phone calls also conveyed by them. At last people organized an uprising and symbolically they protest against the system of ruling.
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Mani Kanchan|
1992
Mani Kanchan
1992 | 134 min
Mani Kanchan is a film about a brother-sister duo name Kanchan and Mani. They face hardships after their father remarries. Unable to pay a huge amount of debt, the father fixes his well-educated daughter s marriage to the mentally unstable son of the money lender. The brother-sister duo flees from their house and move to Kolkata to start a new life but the sister gets kidnapped. How they fight everyone forms the crux of the story.
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Goopy Bagha Phiray Elo|
1992
Goopy Bagha Phiray Elo
1992 | 119 min
Granted 3 wishes by a benign king of Goblins, Goopy and Bagha can get food and clothes, hold people spellbound with their singing and drumming and travel to any place by wearing magic slippers. Married to the two daughters of the king of shundi, they are now kings themselves while attending a contest of magicians they met Acharya, ostensibly a venerable septuagenarian recently arrived in Anandpur and staying in an abandoned castle. The Guru of Acharya has disclosed to him that Bikram, a 12-year-old boy of Anandpur will be the cause of his death. Impressed by their magical powers, Acharya offers Goopy and Bagha to make them 20 years younger is they would obtain from him, three of the most priceless jewels in the world. Goopy and Bagha ask for time. Meanwhile, Acharya rounds up all the 12-year-old boss of Anandpur, bearing the name Bikram and make them his obedient slaves. Goopy and Bagha discover the boys, whom they had heard missing in Acharya's castle. They decide to give in to Acharya's demand to rescue the boys. Pundit Nayratna tells Goopy and Bagha that his grandson Kanu, whose real name is Bikram, has gone to teach a lesson to a demon living in the castle. Goopy and Bagha catch up with a resolutely marching Bikram and they go into the castle. Finally, they succeed in quelling Acharya and victory is achieved by thwarting the forces of evil.
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Aabirey Rangano|
1973
Aabirey Rangano
1973 | 111 min
Anal Roy is a famous director of a renowned drama troupe RANGARATHI . Soma is a simple girl, madly in love with Sandip. However, he is a rogue who is simply playing with her emotions and very soon while on a trip to Diamond Harbour with her troupe she catches him with another woman. She is left heartbroken. She leaves her home town and sets out for Kolkata to make a fresh start. But the girl's hostel she takes up residence at, turns out to be a hub of illegal activities and as fate would have it, she is forced into prostitution like many other innocent girls coming from the poorer regions of the state. Her sad life is transformed when she meets Anal and persuades him to become her acting coach. She turns out to be a revelation and becomes famous under her screen name, Kanta. She also manages to avenge the act of treachery that her former lover had put her through. She realises her feelings for Anal, a man who had stood by her through thick and thin and because of whom she eventually found a new life. Anal confesses his love for her too. Finally she gets the happy ending she had always desired for. Watch the full movie, Aabirey Rangano online, only on Eros Now.
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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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