Movies: Anil Chatterjee

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson....

A child princess gets a harmonium from her father. Through fate and manager she is orphan, then widow and penniless. The harmonium, sold, changed hand and bringing ill-luck wherever it went. Will they ever meet? Under what circumstances?...

Through the microcosmic perspectivising of a group of devoted and uncompromising IPTA workers, Ghatak with his signature style touches on varied issues of partition, idealism, corruption, the interdependence of art and life, the scope of art, and cla...

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her....

The sole dream of Ramu, eldest son a family of migrants, and Uma to build a happy life together is burdened by a pile of obstacles on their way due to economic upheaval in post-partition Calcutta....

Calcutta-based Naval Officer Shankar Choudhry lives a wealthy lifestyle with his doctor dad, and mom. One day while returning home in a cab home from a Club, he comes an injured man, Shekhar, takes him home, has his dad nurse look after him, as well ...

Troyee is the story of a simple man (Mithun), his life, love and relationship....

Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family....

Sagina a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against the tyranny of the British bosses in the Tea gardens of North-Eastern India....

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural ta...

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have ...

Pratima is a 1977 Indian Bengali family drama film directed by Palash Bandyopadhyay....

A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of the taboos of widowhood emerge; but so, too, does a philosophy of life and hope for the future. The performers collectively won Best Actress at India's ...

Madhuri cannot bear a child yet her husband Shatadal is fond of children. They decide to part ways but years later when they meet in a railway station they realize their fondness for each other hasn't died....

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While on their way to Hinglaj, Maharaj and his companions meet Kunti, who was raped by dacoits, and Thirumal, whom she left her family for. Together, they set out to seek the blessings of God....

Indian film starring Dipankar Dey, Soma Dey and Anil Chatterjee...

Based on Bengali story “Ghar Bari” by Dibyendu Palit, a former revolutionary who has deserted the movement lives in fear of running into old colleagues. Meanwhile he pushes his wife into modelling, and later seamier projects, with tragic consequences...

"Ajante" is the story of a simple innocent man Ravi who falls in love with Usha not knowing that she is the very girl whose marriage he is trying to finalize with a high society guy Rudraksh. After Ravi's father's death, his elder brother usurps ever...