Arun Mukherjee

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.

A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own.

On a wintery morning in Kolkata, five people who leave office at midnight, take a cab to return home. During the course of the journey, they narrate stories of supernatural events, stories of spooky events they experienced, and stories that go beyond the mundane corporate life. As their journey nears the end, they realize that they have just had a journey of a lifetime.

Follows a group of old friends who reunite to revisit their golden days after being lost in their adult lives for the last 20 years.

A child in school uniform picks up broken remnants from a wall clock. Today happens to be the first day of school for Madhyamik and he is already late. The house is in a state of disarray, reflecting the chaos and lovelessness of outside – where everyone is a victim and everyone a perpetrator in equal measure. Amidst all this, the family sits down for one last meal together.

Muktodhara is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy.This is a story of about the prisoners of a correctional home ‒ Presidency jail who all have a dark past life but here they are being reformed day by day.

Sita and Manoram fall in love and do everything to fight for it. Bur differences begin to crack their marriage when Manoram introduces Sita to his friend Manash. Will they work on themselves to stay together, or will their relationship fall apart?

Priyo and Urmy are lovers who get separated due to the twisted ways of fate. Years later, when they meet each other, Priyo decides to help Urmy as she leads a troubled married life.

Sharmila is from an affluent family who falls in love with a poor but educated man, Anand. Trouble ensues when the couple finds it difficult to make ends meet.

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 class-struggle.

A poor Muslim man's horse.

After being accused wrongly of theft, a slightly addled servant runs away to the city, carrying as his only real possession an axe, which he claims to have killed a tiger with. He takes up life among India's throngs of city-dwelling homeless, and for a little while almost has a decent time of it. He has a girlfriend, and one good friend, and gets by through begging and doing odd jobs.

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 in transition.

Tired of the corrupt Communist regime and its policies, a group of flying humans and black magicians join forces to hatch a conspiracy and wage a guerrilla attack against the totalitarian government and overthrow it.

Anupam, a writer, loves his family dearly and besides looking after his mother, he also funds his brothers' education. However, he loses his sanity when his perfect life falls apart.

After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life. Things get worse when Noor returns to India as a married rich man.

Brijlal, a cunning entrepreneur, plots to kill his partner and his son (Tapas Paul). However, the son survives and years later, ends up falling in love with Brijlal's beautiful daughter (Mahua Roy Choudhury).

An earthquake tears a businessman's family apart. Years later, they reunite in a courtroom trial where the father meets his sons under unprecedented circumstances.

Cornered by a snooty in-law amid an awkward family lunch, a middle-class man makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to take his wife and two daughters to Switzerland for a vacation.

Swapna Niye is a 1966 Indian Bengali film, directed by Purnendu Patri.

Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story is about people and their lives getting caught in the conflict between global change and old-world bigotry.

Hiru Ganguly is unable to marry Kumudini, his lover, after her father rejects his marriage proposal. Years later, although married to another woman, he once again desires to win her back. As old feelings are rekindled, will they take any steps to go against the social customs?

The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The saga begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope and of strength hidden behind despair.

Anuradha and Jeet, two musicians, fall in love and get married. However, things take a turn when Anuradha's professional life starts affecting Jeet.

Jayabrata Ray, a teacher of a reputed school in Kurseong, finds himself in a helpless situation after losing his eyesight. Although the school authorities allow him to continue with his job for a while, but all hell breaks loose when he starts getting threat calls from the management asking him to vacate his property that is situated right inside the school premises. Jayabrata, who had also been a student of the same school, could see through their real intention and simply refuses to budge.

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?

Peace Haven is the story of three friends in their 70's who journey to build a mortuary for themselves and in the process discover the meaning of life ironically through death.

This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.

Aparna, the only daughter and the apple of her mother's eye is engaged at a young age to her childhood friend, Ajay. After her mother’s death, her father remarries, and her stepmother begins to mistreat her. Desperate, Aparna flees with the help of Baren, a local goon with a good heart. She stays with Baren for safety and becomes involved in his group, though she urges him to turn his life around. Baren vows to protect her. One day, Aparna meets a stranger who turns out to be Ajay, and they are reunited. Baren is eventually arrested for his crimes but ensures Aparna's safety.

A 1977 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Salil Dutta.

Pankhiraj is a 1979 Bengali language Indian drama film directed by Pijush Basu, starring Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Nandita Bose, Samit Bhanja, and Utpal Dutta.

Raja Roychowdhury and his nephew Santu travel to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to solve the mystery behind the continuous disappearance of researchers at a remote island inhabited only by a primitive tribe.

Based on the timeless literary work by Manik Bandyopadhyay, Padma Nadir Majhi was directed by Gautam Ghosh. The movie illustrates the tumultuous lives of the fishermen and their families, living by the river Padma. Beautiful shots of the river, Ghosh's flair for realism and brilliant display of acting skills by noted actors of Bangladesh and West Bengal, including Utpal Dutt, Robi Ghosh, Abul Khayer, Raisul Islam Asad, Champa, and Rupa Ganguli, fetched the movie local and international honours.

The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link with civilisation for a few days. However, the trip turns sour when Ashim and Aparna's daughter, Amrita, goes missing. It transpires that she is being held for ransom by local tribespeople. Police intervene and the kidnapped girl is returned to her parents, albeit against her own wishes.

A family drama that is based on a complicated love story. It tells the story of two friends, one of whom loses his eyesight in an accident. In order to not punish his love, he decides to lie to his love and makes her leave him on purpose. In a tragic turn of events, it happens so that the best friend is to marry the hero's love. Dealing with a lot of complications and emotional turmoil, the truth is known by all and then finally, the two lovers are united with happiness.