
Acting
Arun Mukherjee
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Acting
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36 titles
Arun Mukherjee (16 February 1937) is an Indian stage director and film actor, known for the theatre group Chetana.
Known for
NRA powerful industrialist and a celebrated singer seem to have the perfect marriage until an ambitious young actress enters their lives. As past feelings, misunderstandings, and public scrutiny begin to test their bond, the couple must confront the fragile balance between love, trust, and ambition.
Anurodh
1987
7.5This 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.
Banished
2015
7.0A 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.
City of Love
2017
6.5Follows a group of old friends who reunite to revisit their golden days after being lost in their adult lives for the last 20 years.
Abar Bochhor Koori Pore
2022
8.0The 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.
In the Forest... Again
2003
6.1Jayabrata Roy, a school teacher in Kurseong, becomes helpless when he loses his eyesight due to a sudden retinal disorder. Relying completely on the sense of hearing, what happens when he starts getting threat calls to vacate his property?
C/O Sir
2013
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.5Follows a group of old friends who reunite to revisit their golden days after being lost in their adult lives for the last 20 years.
Abar Bochhor Koori Pore
2022
1.0Cornered 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.
Switzerland
2020
2010s · 9 titles
7.5This 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.
Banished
2015
7.0A 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.
City of Love
2017
6.1Jayabrata Roy, a school teacher in Kurseong, becomes helpless when he loses his eyesight due to a sudden retinal disorder. Relying completely on the sense of hearing, what happens when he starts getting threat calls to vacate his property?
C/O Sir
2013
NROn 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.
Hoyto Manush Noy
2018
7.5Muktodhara 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.
Muktodhara
2012
8.0Tired 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.
Kangal Malsat
2013
NRSet in contemporary Kolkata, the story is about people and their lives getting caught in the conflict between global change and old-world bigotry.
Mahanagar@Kolkata
2010
8.0A 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.
MEAL
2019
7.0Peace 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.
Peace Haven
2015
2000s · 4 titles
8.0The 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.
In the Forest... Again
2003
6.8After 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.
This, My Land
2002
NRAnuradha and Jeet, two musicians, fall in love and get married. However, things take a turn when Anuradha's professional life starts affecting Jeet.
Sathihara
2006
NRA poor Muslim man's horse.
The Last Ride
2001
1990s · 3 titles
8.0In pre-Partition Bengal, Kuber, a poor fisherman struggles to survive along the wild Padma River. While navigating an affair with his spirited sister-in-law, Kuber becomes entangled with Hossain, a charismatic trader recruiting desperate villagers to settle on the isolated island of Moynadeep.
The Padma Boatman
1993
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.
Mon Mayuree
1990
NRSharmila 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.
Neelimay Neel
1991
1980s · 6 titles
NRA powerful industrialist and a celebrated singer seem to have the perfect marriage until an ambitious young actress enters their lives. As past feelings, misunderstandings, and public scrutiny begin to test their bond, the couple must confront the fragile balance between love, trust, and ambition.
Anurodh
1987
6.0Burning 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.
Kaleidoscope
1981
NRAn earthquake tears a businessman's family apart. Years later, they reunite in a courtroom trial where the father meets his sons under unprecedented circumstances.
Toofan
1989
NRPankhiraj is a 1979 Bengali language Indian drama film directed by Pijush Basu, starring Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Nandita Bose, Samit Bhanja, and Utpal Dutta.
Pankhiraj
1980
NRBrijlal, 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).
Ashirbad
1986
NRSita 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?
Din Jai
1983
1970s · 8 titles
8.0Raja 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.
Sabuj Dwiper Raja
1979
NRAnupam, 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.
In the Mirror of the City
1975
7.2The 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.
Ek Din Pratidin
1979
NRAparna, 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.
Aparna
1972
8.0A 1977 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Salil Dutta.
Babu Moshai
1977
8.0Hiru 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?
Nimantran
1971
NRA 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?
Harmonium
1976
7.2After 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.
The Man with the Axe
1979
1960s · 4 titles
The movie is about child marriage, a custom that was prevalent amongst various Indian societies. Set during British Raj in India, the movie tells the story of a village school boy Amal, who is married to a younger girl named Rajni.
Balika Badhu
1967
10.0Swapna Niye is a 1966 Indian Bengali film, directed by Purnendu Patri.
Swapno Niye
1966
7.6Played 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.
Kanchenjungha
1962
6.4Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.
A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale
1961
