Anyakto is a poignant tale of a mother and son. The story encapsulates an unusual journey of Indra right from his childhood, adolescence to being a grown man. A series of unexplained events which turn him into a man he never ought to be. And these unexplained and unusual series of events are come upon by the three most integral pillars of the film, Indra’s mother Sathi, his father Kaushik, and his favourite uncle, also his father’s friend, Rudra. The film travels through various time lapses and captures the stirring and unexplainable situations and turmoil the trio goes through. The story zooms into the intricacies and complexities of various relationships. It is a humble attempt to explore love, regret, loneliness, sadness, the search for identity, and multiple other emotions through the principal characters of the film.

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Born as a boy in rural Bengal, Parimal realised soon enough that on the inside he was a woman, even though he had the physical attributes of a man. Soon following his natural instincts, Parimal flees to find himself a world that seemed more accepting to his internal truth. He sought refuge at a transgender shelter in the city of Kolkata, and turned into Puti. It was here that Puti met the love of her life, Madhu, a flute player from the Kirtaniya town of Nabadwip.

Did Puti find her true identity after all, in a rigid society where many, many such love stories are lost to social shame and pressure everyday? The answer probably lies not in Puti’s fate but in the couple’s journey through devotion to eternal love.

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A profound examination of life, death, hope and immortality, Tarikh gives us a peep into the inner worlds and beliefs of three people: Anirban, an idealist, Ira, a conformist, and Rudrangshu, a realist—all of whom are bound by friendship. Directed by Churni Ganguly, the film stars Raima Sen, Saswata Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, and Kaushik Ganguly in central roles.

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‘Ladakh Chale Rickshawala’—a journey on three wheels stands on three journeys: First, A rickshaw puller’s journey from Kolkata to Ladakh, 3000 km away from his city traversing the heart of Northern India, crossing the different cultures of Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu, Kashmir valley, and finally that of Leh-Ladakh in his tricycle rickshaw, second, a filmmaker and her team’s journey to make a film on the rickshaw puller’s mammoth journey to Ladakh with very little financial resources, and the third, the journey of the rickshaw puller’s wife to survive in spite of her husband’s wanderlust hoping to see a silver lining if her husband succeeds in his mission. How will each reach their destination?

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Goopy and Bagha are banished from the kingdom for being bad musicians. However, with their simplicity and innocence, they succeed in pleasing the King of Ghosts who grants them three wishes. It is a fun filled musical journey as the two friends face the adventures that lie ahead.

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This is the second film on the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Banaras, where he, along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly, goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesha (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to start investigation. Feluda comes in direct confrontation with Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt), a ruthless trader. Maganlal makes the mild-mannered Lalmohan a knifethrower’s target and threatens Felu to stop investigation. But there are several other suspects as an innocent artisan is brutally murdered, a shady ‘holy man’ holds court on the banks of the Ganges and an adventure-loving little boy (and his grand-father), brought up on crime thrillers. The climax is a shootout on the Ganges, followed by the unraveling of the mystery.

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Charulata is based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore, Nastanirh (The broken Nest) and set in Calcutta in the late nineteenth century. Bengal Renaissance is at its peak and India is under British rule. The film revolves around Charulata / Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), the childless, intelligent, and beautiful wife of Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee). He edits and publishes a political newspaper. Bhupati is an upper class Bengali intellectual with a keen interest in politics and the freedom movement.

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The story revolves around a taxi driver, Narsingh, who attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in Sukharam’s smuggling and human trafficking business.

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The script is based on the novel ‘Dhanjyotsna’ written by Afsar Ahmed. After Sakhina and Nur’s divorce, Sakhina has remarried Meher; a man who loves her but has difficulty providing for them and their three children. Nur went on to the Middle East and came back a rich man. He has remarried. Nur and Meher are cousins and Nur tries to help Meher (and Sakhina) by giving him work and lending him money. But when he returns Sakhina’s prized nose-ring, which he had given her secretly during their marriage and not taken back during the divorce, and which Meher later pawned for some money, Sakhina is insulted and hurt.

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Neelabho Roy is a successful Neurophysician, working in a Corporate Hospital. Armed with several foreign degrees, Neelabho’s success is a foregone conclusion. But as the world lauds him, Neelabho is drifting away from his family and close friends. In fact, at times, he is in a denial mode as far as acknowledging his roots is concerned. For him only the present is important to build up a more successful future. A new patient Dr Amitava Sarkar is admitted under Neelabho. He is a well known historian, but the tragedy is that he is slowly losing his fight against Alzheimer, a degenerative disease that has no cure, or reversal. Dr Sarkar is accompanied by a young lady Shubha Sarkar, whom Neelabho mistakes as his daughter, only to be corrected by Dr Sarkar, who says she is my wife. The disparity in their age prompts people to misjudge the relationship between the two. The film deals with the identity crisis of three persons, for one it is a conscious decision, for another it’s beyond control and for the third it’s a suspicious metamorphosis. The film is all about the analysis and the path to resolving these crises.

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