In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
A young Indian man has been assured by an uncle that all he needs to land a lucrative job is to show up to the interview in a Western style suit, but the morning of the interview is fraught with unexpected difficulties.
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.
A thriller revolving around a sudden blast in a Khagragarh firecracker unit, some 70 km away from then president of India's house, ahead of Durga Puja in 2014. Is there more than meets the eye?
Gouri is a 16 year old timid girl raised by a single mother who tries to escape the daily grind as she plans to flee with a 20-year old loafer guy.
A group of "friends" and "misfits", who had formed a popular yet short-lived youth theatre group, reunite for the first time after seven years on an eventful Durga Pujo night at their old rehearsal space, a bungalow which is about to be converted into Kolkata's first five-star heritage hotel by the Ganges.
Follows interconnected stories of several different couples, each facing a crossroads at different stages in their lives and relationships.
Farhaz, a top chef from Bangladesh, and Basundhara, a middle-class Indian woman who runs a home catering service, come together as they share a common passion—food.
Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as a megacity with a reputation for eccentricity, culture and tolerance.
In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
A tale of paranormal romance, Kuasha Jakhon tells the story of a man who comes to sanctify a haunted mansion. But, the house's disturbing history and his exploration into its past, leads him to unexpected situations.
Anwar Ahmed Zayed is a Pakistani sleeper cell activist, who tried to inflict terror using a series of bombings in five different places of Kolkata. However, his plans are about to be derailed as Imtiyaz Kabir, the SP of Anti Terrorist Squad, headed by ADG Vikram Dwivedi and Monali Bhattacharyya, a cryptologist from IB team join hands to decipher the code language used by IM in email communications. Imtiyaz and his team, with the supervision of Vikram Dwivedi, raids the hide-outs of the terrorists and nab all the seven terrorists involved in this attack including Zayed. While behind the bars, Zayed apparently transforms himself into a pious Muslim. He wants to live the life of a common man and writes to the Chief Minister to review his death sentence and give him another chance to lead a normal life. Zayed gets released from jail after four years of his arrest and goes back to his village to reunite with his wife Sabina and daughter Razia.
A modest tradition of making clay images existed in Bengal in pre-British times. These craftsmen originally “Potters” by caste became the core settlers of Kumartuli, which means “Potters Quarter”. “Documentation of Clay Image Makers of Kumartuli”s an attempt to understand their plight and Kumartuli’s contribution to one of the biggest festivals in the world.
A 1980 Documentary on Durga Puja by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
This short puppet cartoon is based on cues about how people perceive the summer heat in Kolkata in West Bengal. All the characters are real. They are mostly losers who have come to Calcutta for their own reasons.
Documentary is a form of digital media which speaks about the livelihood of people living in a city and their revelations about it. Durga Puja as a festival is mostly known for being celebrated by Bengali's (a community from eastern India). Probashe Agomon as translated directly "Arrival Abroad" is what Bengalis wait for throughout the year for a Glimpse of Maa Durga. This is not just a religious ceremony it is a cultural festival.
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when he played on the baseball team; his former teammate Ishioka, who is now a policeman because of an elbow injury; and baseball fanatic Eiko, a hopeless alcoholic who spends more of her time drunk than sober. The three share an intense love of baseball — and their destinies are forever intertwined.
Summer 1945 in Germany. In Nordstrand, a peninsula on the North Sea coast, the British army of occupation has set up its central administration in a carefully cordoned-off base cut off from the mainland. Gesa works in the military base's laundry with other German women. Her fiancé, a former Wehrmacht officer, is being held in the nearby internment camp, on the other side of the sea and the barbed wire. To find Gesa secretly at night in the dunes, Friedrich is not afraid to swim across the inlet. But the young woman falls in love with Simon, a British officer of German origin. She soon decides to tell Friedrich everything, but the dramatic events of that night prevent her from doing so...