Art

Ajit Banerjee

Ajit Bandyopadhyay was a Bengali film and theater actor, director, art director.

Acting credits

Lalan Fakir poster
NR

The heartwarming story of a fakir named Lalon Kar that traces his journey from being a family man to a wandering minstrel and how he spread the message of love everywhere. Note: Though poster art is in color, the movie is B&W. And while released in '87, it had to have been filmed in '84 or earlier, since Baran died in Nov 1984

Lalan Fakir

1987

The Branches of the Tree poster
7.2

When 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

Goopy Bagha Feere Elo poster
8.1

Goopy and Bagha are invited to the Kingdom of Shundi, where they must outwit an evil astrologer and his imposter to save the king and prevent an attack from the neighbouring kingdom of Halla.

Goopy Bagha Feere Elo

1992

Niyoti poster
7.0

A 1951 Bengali Thriller Film directed by Naresh Mitra.

Niyoti

1951

Triyacharitra poster
7.0

A daughter of poor parents was engaged to a man when she was 13. The man is away working in Calcutta. In the meanwhile, she befriends a truck-driver who promises her parents a huge amount of money. The girl is snatched away by her father-in-law and raped by him. But she is punished for his crime.

Triyacharitra

1994

The Stranger poster
7.6

A 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

Sati poster
8.8

Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.

Sati

1989

Baksho Rahashya poster
7.2

Famous Bengali private investigator Pradosh C. Mitter (Feluda) is hired by wealthy businessman Dinnanath Lahiri. His suitcase has been accidentally exchanged with someone on the Kalka Mail. Inside it is a valuable manuscript written by Shambucharan Bose. The case takes Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu to Shimla, where they discover a priceless diamond in a film container, disguised as a betel - nut. 'The Three Musketeers' face great danger in Shimla, before Feluda eventually solves the case.

Baksho Rahashya

1996

The Royal Hunt poster
7.0

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.

The Royal Hunt

1977

Chorus poster
6.6

A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.

Chorus

1974

Michael Madhusudhan poster
10.0

The life of renowned Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta.

Michael Madhusudhan

1950

The Citizen poster
8.0

The sole dream of Ramu, eldest son a family of migrants, and Uma to build a happy life together is burdened by a pile of obstacles on their way due to economic upheaval in post-partition Calcutta.

The Citizen

1977

Uttar Falguni poster
8.0

A story of love and sacrifice of a mother who did everything to protect her child ,even from her husband.

Uttar Falguni

1963

Behind the camera