Pratipaksha is a 1988 Indian Bengali film, directed by Rathish Dey Sarkar and produced by Satyajit Films. The film stars Prosenjit, Utpal Dutt and Chinmoy Roy in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Ajoy Das. more»

Harihar Ray lives in Nichindapurwith his family. Nothing is going well for Harihar as he gets a job as an accountant at the zamindar's treasury but does not get any remuneration. In the course of time, he is blessed Apu, his son. His lack of means and various circumstances drive his daughter to die of pneumonia. This proves a turning point in his life and he with his family, leaves for Benaras seeking a better life. more»

Granted 3 wishes by a benign king of Goblins, Goopy and Bagha possess magical powers. They receive an invitation from the King of Hirok. Hirok, named after a diamond mine, is a police state ruled by a tyrant King. So much so, that the King closed down the only school run by an idealist teacher Udayan. Goopy and Bagha chance upon Udayan in a cave, who is in hiding and plotting to dethrone the King. Knowing the real story of Hirok, the three decide to team up. Goopy and Bagha, aided with their magical music making. Will they win the battle of Hirok? more»

Narsingh, a taxi driver. Narsingh is a proud and hot-tempered Rajput with a passion for his car, a vintage 1930 Chrysler. He recklessly passes the car of a powerful, local policeman and has his permit taken away. It forces him to take refuge in a small town on the borders of the states of Bengal and Bihar. Sukhanram, a shady merchant, offers him a handsome fee to transport some merchandise, and soon he finds himself into trafficking in opium. The two main women characters Neeli and Gulabi form a contrast. Narsingh is attracted to Neeli, a reserved Catholic schoolteacher. She has no interest in Narsingh. The other female character is warm, demonstrative and beautiful prostitute Gulabi. Gulabi has an instinctive liking towards Narsingh. Unaware that Neeli has already committed herself to another man, a cripple, for Neeli s sake, Narsingh begins to reform himself and even takes interest in her religion. But soon finds himself helping Neeli elope with her cripple lover. He also is seduced by Sukhanram and his lawyer friends to enter into a partnership and is even willing to sell off of his car to invest in the smuggling venture. Confronted by Gulabi, his assistant Rama and finally by Neeli s brother Joseph, Narsingh realizes his mistake.Despite the romantic disillusion, he finds spiritual redemption when in climatic sequence of events he splits with his smuggler associates and rescues Gulabi from them. Narsingh is united with the woman he truly loves. more»

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. more»

Bomkesh and his friend Ajit laze around one morning when Mr. Nishikanta Sen, a retired Judge come to visit them. He informs that he has been given a threat by an unknown and wants Bomkesh to look into the matter. He invites them to his estate in Golap Colony, a village slightly away from Kolkata. Bomkesh decides to go there in the disguise of a Japanese and meets a lot of people with varied personalities. Some of them are Mr. Sen s wife, his old friend, his nephew, his acquaintance, his servants, a loner, the local village fishermen, his wife, a castaway and a handicap. Soon after his visit, Mr. Sen is brutally murdered in his house. Bomkesh is officially summoned by the police and he formally takes up the investigation. The next day, the handicapped man is killed too. Bomkesh interviews all of them, digs out the past of a few people, follows some people in disguise and in the end is able to identify the killer. He gets the final clue of the murdered from his dear friend Ajit. more»

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. more»

Sonar Kella is an Indian Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Kushal Chakraborty, Kamu Mukherjee, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Shilen Mukherjee. The music of the film was composed by Satyajit Ray. more»

Bhupen is an excellent student who works as a private tutor to support his education and family. He begins to teach Sandhya who is a rich man s granddaughter. She ends up falling for him and that ruins his career, even though he did not feel the same for her. He later gets married to Kalyani but he and Sandhya still share a bond for the sake of her property. more»

Moner Mayur is a 1954 Indian Bengali film, Directed by Sushil Majumdar & Produced by Ramachhaya Chitra. The film stars Uttam Kumar, Bharti Devi, in lead roles. The film had musical score by Satyajit Mazumdar. more»