V L-acharya
Tarini Tarama|
1977
Tarini Tarama
1977 | 115 min
Rajababu bans all types of religious activities, thereby the villagers of kurigram protest against such atrocities. But rajababu is married to jasodha, who is a devotee of tara maa and like other people do her prayes without the knowledge of her husband, rajababu this means that any religious activities is to be conceated from rajababu. Rajababu is oblivious of these facts as he enjoys his life in worldly joys by drinking and exploiting women. He is ignorant of the craving of her wife to become a mother, let along the plight of the villagers. This takes a cumulative effect as the helpless villagers are aroused to anger from their despair state of living. But before anything could happen, nayakbabu manages all the affairs and is the prompt saviour of raja babu as usual. Nayak babu even sacrifices his life. So that rajababu, who meanwhile have a vision of tara maa treads the good path. Rajababu realises his mistake. He bears jasodha a child but is not for born from his evil ways for a long time. Again he has a vision of tara maa which result into rajababu becoming a convent to a firm believer in tara maa. After a time slice of 15 years, jasodha is dead and the noble person that rajababu has become, abandons the worldly life and becomes a preacher. Therefore, life comes a full circle.
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Subtitles:EnglishChorus|
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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Subtitles:EnglishShobdo Kolpo Droom|
2018
Shobdo Kolpo Droom
2018 | 87 min
Four terrorists take shelter in a hostel for specially-abled children during their summer vacation and the city falls prey to their activities. Five children, who stay back during vacation, uncover their mission and take it upon themselves to save the city. But will they succeed? This is no child's play.
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Subtitles:EnglishBodhan|
1981
Bodhan
1981 | 100 min
The two brothers Haralal and Nibaran, who are very different from each other, go separate ways when Nibaran falls for Lakshmi, a low caste girl. Haralal, being dead against the match, asks his wife Savitri to behave rudely with Nibaran, who sees her like his own mother. Heartbroken, he leaves the house and marries Lakshmi. Will the brothers ever unite again?
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Subtitles:EnglishManikjore|
1972
Manikjore
1972 | 93 min
Nondo and Gobindo are two rich villagers married to girls from the city. One day they go to the city, hoping to be received by Gobindo s father-in-law but meet someone else and are taken to a different house. Unable to find the father-in-law s home, they move into a hotel, meet new people and experience new things every day.
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Subtitles:EnglishJhor|
1982
Jhor
1982 | 120 min
The story is as the film opens with a calling of rolls in Derozio's class in Hindu College. Calcutta and his pupils - each a celebrity in later life are introduced. Dukhinaranjan Mukherjee, Radhanath Sikdar, Ramgopal Ghosh, Pyarichand Mitra, K.M. Banerjee, Gobin Basak and others. Derozio teaches them the need of scientific doubt and patriotism. He preaches the ideas of the great French Revolution.A suttee Saraswati is rescued by Derozio's pupils, who take her straight to Derozio's residence where she finds shelter. Nahush Sharma, who was trying to burn her alive to take possession of her property, complains to Raja Radhakanta Dev, the undisputed leader of the Hindu community. Dev asks Derozio to return Saraswati. Derozio refuses point blank. Thereafter, Dev declares war against Derozio, because of his arrogance.Plots are laid, Hindu fanatics rouse mobs, the college is picketed, Derozio stoned. On suttee being abolished, Saraswati decides to go home, but is kidnapped by Nahush Sharma, who then tortures her son to make her confess publicly that Derozio has outraged her modesty. Meanwhile, Dukhina, Derozio's best pupil, and Emilia, Derozio's sister, develop a kind of juvenile love, which causes consternation in Hindu society. Dukhina is chained and whipped by his father, drugged and detained, but he breaks free and rejoins his master.But all these charges finally sway the Board of Governors of Hindu College, and Derozio is sacked. More, his pupils are forbidden to visit him. The tragedy lies in the fact that Dukhina, Derozio's favorite pupil, testifies against his master before the Board. Dukhina continues to live a wild life, abusing Derozio publicly. Derozio does not acknowledge defeat but sells all his books and furniture to publish the weekly. East India, and continues to mount attacks on Hindu superstition and British exploitation. He is publicly insulted in a dinner, when Saraswati is finally made to denounce him. But Derozio goes on fighting, Saraswati, having carried out her mission for the sake of her son, returns to find him dead.And Derozio is down with cholera, His pupils break College rules and gather by his side, while a mob burns his effigy outside. Rev. Hill requests him to make peace with God. Derozio replies. " But God is not proven".
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Subtitles:EnglishSadharan Meye|
1991
Sadharan Meye
1991 | 111 min
Ranjit, an honest policeman, works hard on taking down Ranita s gang but fails each time. An arrangement brings him to get to know about Ranita's real self Sarbani, his childhood sweetheart. Ranita's hands are tied for money, and commitments complicate their lives. Will they be able to reunite and get back on track?
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Subtitles:EnglishKaal Purush|
1994
Kaal Purush
1994 | 129 min
Kaal Purush is a social drama based on the life of Anil, who was wronged by society and seeks to avenge his ruined life and his destroyed family. The story starts with Anil talking to the police commissioner in jail, about his past. He was a good student with a bright future ahead. One day he met his old friend Ranjan who offered him to teach his sister, Priya. Anil falls in love with Priya but later comes to know that Priya was just playing with his emotions. He returns home dejected to when hear that his sister, Itu was kidnapped. He goes to rescue her and loses control in the moment and kills the accused. Roghu, an alleged goon, who was in love with his sister, helps Anil to escape. To keep Itu happy, Roghu forced Ranjan, Itu's love to marry her. But later this marriage fails and in the end Roghu and Itu are killed by her in-laws. Meanwhile, Anil finds a look alike of Priya in a nearby village and marries her. After receiving the news of their death Anil comes back seeking revenge and then surrenders himself to the police. He was imprisoned for some years. The movie ends on a happy note where Anil is rejoined his son, wife and father after being released from jail.
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Subtitles:EnglishPrem Puja|
1993
Bandini|
1989
Bandini
1989 | 126 min
Sujit lives with an old servant Raghu and is happy with his bachelor life. One night a young and beautiful girl named Aparajita come to his doorstep and begs for help. She complains that her father intended to sell her off for some money. Sujit lets her stay for a while. Aparajita proves to be a homemaker and very soon wins the heart of both Sujit and Raghu. Sujit falls in love with her and they decide to get married. Sujit s cousin brother Bhaskar is a police inspector and loves Sutapa. However they cannot get married as Sutapa s elder sister Minu is unmarried and works hard to take care of her ailing youngest sister. On the day of their marriage registration, Aparajita s father comes back with the police and she agrees to go with him and informs the police against Sujit. After Aparajita leaves, Sujit comes to know that there was no one by the name of the policeman who had come with Aparajita s father. Sujit realizes that the whole incident was a scam and Aparajita had played trickery on him. He finds a letter from Aparajita begging for forgiveness. She mentions that her name is actually Minu and not Aparajita and that since she was the eldest of the family and did not get a respectable job, had joined a group of people who earned money by playing trickery on people. She was indeed Sutapa s elder sister. Sujit forgives Minu and all the lovers are united in the end.
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