
Acting
Mamata Shankar
Born 1955-01-07
Mamata Shankar (born 7 January 1955) is an Indian actress and dancer. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has acted in films by directors including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh. In addition to being an actress, she is a dancer and choreographer.
Acting credits
9.0Mrinal Sen is in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.
Padatik
2024
No synopsis available yet.
Balidan
1978
7.0A young musician and a fatso model have the same dream together, and they meet and fall in love at a bookstore. When their relationship starts to fall apart, an out-of-work magician steps in.
Jaani Dekha Hobe
2011
10.0Kolkata police detective Aniket Sanyal (Kharaj) guess on a holiday to Kasuli in Himachal Pradesh after his wife's death, only to be sought out to solve the mystery behind the well-planned murder of another tourist.
Antarleen
2016
NR'Prajapati' is the story of Sukhen who grows up neglected to become a rough person with a heart of gold. Shikha, Sukhen's beloved wants him to lead a normal and healthy life. His elder brothers are political leaders who work only for their personal gains. His eldest brother Keshav runs a drug business behind his medical business. His second brother Purnendu is a corrupt man who kills the young maid of their house. Sukhen attempts to stop the fatal rift growing between his brothers but is killed while doing so.
Prajapati
1993
NR‘Pinjar’ is an evocative meditation on captivity—of bodies, of spirits, of choices—unfolding through the entangled lives of five individuals and a wild bird.
Pinjar
2026
7.2When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
The Branches of the Tree
1990
NRAmid the celebratory atmosphere of Durga Puja, after an unexpected tragedy, Alokananda, strives to maintain the illusion of happiness. As Aloka confronts the self-centeredness within their relationships, a poignant journey unfolds.
Autumn Flies
2024
7.2Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
An Enemy of the People
1990
NRA lonely, retired police officer decides to travel. In his quest, he meets a lady, and they both search for life and love in their late 60s. They relive moments gone by, seeking to finally find their "Happily Ever After." Will they manage to do so?
Deri Hoye Geche
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ballygunge Court
2007
NRIt is a film of the childhood tragedic story of three siblings, wher their father lost his job and his family people killed him. The childhood life of those people was in the ancient Darjeeling during the british rule. One of the sibling was recalling the whole past and was writing about that after the independence of Inida. he then went to meet his siblings in distance places, but found them in much much more traumatising and proverty situations, but could not help them.
Drishti Pradip
2009
6.5A professor in Kolkata marries a young woman. But when he learns that she is pregnant with someone else's child, he decides to leave her.
Distance
1978
7.1The 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
5.0Deepak Pradhan, a young police officer, gets transferred to North Bengal where his junior officers are involved in corrupt practices. When disturbing events from the past start to surface and the pressure builds, will Deepak be able to hold on to his principles to save his integrity and loved ones?
Pradhan
2023
NRKaushik Ganguly will bring the story of dismissal in his new film ‘Palan’ in the context of 2022. The characters of Kharij will remain the same, the names will not change. The story will change a bit to keep pace with the context of this era.
Palan
2023
7.6A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
The Stranger
1991
7.0A 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.
The Royal Hunt
1977
6.3Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When the mother reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret.
Utsab
2000
NRA couple moves into a beautiful duplex and starts experiencing paranormal activities.
Flat No 609
2018
7.0A pre-teen servant boy dies of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The household is suddenly plunged into psychological turmoil, torn between guilt and fear of a police investigation and the resulting scandal. As events unfold, the employer and his wife reveal their petty, hypocritical selves.
Kharij
1982
7.6Rohit, a Gujarati, studies the life of Anthony Firengee, and in the process meets with a mysterious man Kushawl Hajra.
Jaatishwar
2014
7.0A retired 65-year-old widower lives alone as his wedding planner son runs a busy business, and he's determined to see his son get married.
Projapati
2022
4.0The story revolves around a hotel named "Shah Jahan Regency" and lives of people associated with that hotel. The hotel is one of a kind and very different from others as it strongly believes in the rich culture of India and tries to imply and maintain that in every aspect of the hotel - starting from the decor, to uniforms of the staff members, to the names given to various parts of the hotel.
Shah Jahan Regency
2019