Arati Das

An award winning film by Nabyendu Chatterjee

Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.

A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

A British administrator with a flair for game hunting develops a friendship with a commoner who is an expert archer in an Indian village. The movie portrays the relationship between the British colonialists, and native villagers who were exploited by Indian landlords in 1920s India. This happens against the backdrop of the awakening of the Indian people against the British rule.

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.

The story revolves around Nayantara, a woman who is perceived as a witch by the villagers. As the narrative unfolds, it gradually reveals whether she is indeed a witch or if her tragic life has led her to appear that way.

Dipto Roy (Uttam Kumar) returns to India after completion of his F.R.C.S. in London. He begins work at a village hospital, is an outstanding and devoted doctor and works hard to improve the hospital. He falls in love with the nurse, Achena (Supriya Devi) and they marry. His plan is that by working together they'll make the hospital well known for its excellence. But after marriage she wants to devote her time to the home and having children. This causes a bitter split between them and they separate.

A young engineer marries a young widow with a child by her previous husband. In a society where taboos play a dominant role, the marital life, despite the best intentions, grows increasingly difficult and finally collapses.

Lalu and Chinta are neighbours and extremely good friends. One morning both of die and reach hell. However Yandyut exclaims that there was a mistake and that they were not the individuals he intended to kill. He orders Lalu and Chinta to be sent back to the earth but the latter claim for a tour of hell as compensation. Soon the friends find themselves back on earth but soon realize that their souls have been exchanges in error. This leads to a series of confusion of themselves as well as their near and dear ones. In the end their souls come back to themselves and there is no bound to their happiness, much to the amusement of the rest who did not know why they were so happy.

A 1948 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Pashupati Chattopadhyay.