To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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Hanako and Kenkichi's couple have moved to the two Nagaya in the downtown area where Hanako's mother lived until her death. When I easily arranged my luggage and ate soba noodles for delivery, there was a man who went up and started eating soba noodles together without greeting. The next resident, Soka Chihei. Hanako, who was born and raised in downtown, was accustomed to such an unreserved relationship, but Kenkichi, who was raised by Yamanote, was unpleasant.
Compilation film combining footage from various television anime episodes that center on the Akai family.
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Mohitosh Sur
