
Acting
Barun Chanda
Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India
Barun Chanda (born 30 May) is an Indian advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's Seemabaddha. He portrayed the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in Anik Duttaʼs Aparajito (2022).
Acting credits
6.9A flight attendant and her boyfriend must steal a cache of diamonds to clear an old debt — but the plan spins into a mayhem when the plane gets hijacked.
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga
2023
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
5.9An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.
Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway
2023
8.3A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.
Aparajito
2022
5.9A privileged Delhi socialite hires a middle-class student to pose as her boyfriend to maintain her social status. Their pretense becomes complicated when genuine feelings develop between them.
Nadaaniyan
2025
NRIn the bustling, nostalgic lanes of North Kolkata, Sumit Dasgupta, a 40-year-old software engineer, lives a routine-driven life with his teenage daughter, Mohor. Ever since his wife, Supriya, passed away unexpectedly a year ago, Sumit has been struggling to balance his demanding job and single parenthood.
Ranna Baati
2025
7.2A young boy seeks to master the game of snooker to defend his father’s legacy after a humiliating loss. But first, he’ll need help from a hardened pro.
Toolsidas Junior
2022
Life of an artist who earns his livelihood by engraving miniature images of mosques and temples on grindstones. Set in a small town, the film asks many poignant questions about the contemporary day Indian reality through the artist’s experience of making an error.
Bishad Bindu
2018
NRChiro Sakha Hey revolves around the story of Ishan (Mazumdar) and Tilottama (Tanushree). Ishan, who hails from an illustrious family, lost his father during his childhood. He then moved to North Bengal along with his paternal uncle Sibasish (Chanda, a lawyer, and mother Aloka (Mithu). Now he works as a professional photographer and is a skilled painter too. Tilottama, who lost her husband seven years ago, carries the trauma of some tragic incident from her past. Amidst acute despair, Tilotttama gets acquainted with Ishan, who brings a ray of hope to her life.
Chiroshakha Hey
2023
NRThe plot revolves around Urmi who one day wakes up from a nightmare and realizes what she sees around, what she’s up against in real life often contradict. She’s on a journey to Mayurbhanj to find her real identity and the journey turns into a self-discovery.
Khela Jawkhon
2022
5.9An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
The Waiting City
2010
4.0Three girlfriends, Preenita, Rhea and Shreemoyee share everything with each other from the angst of the "will-he-or-won't-he-call" debates, to the addictive gossip sessions, the analysis of dumping and getting dumped, the complaining about husbands, boyfriends, or the lack of boyfriends; over cups and cups of coffee, as they let their hair down on their 'girls-gone-wild' nights on the town.
Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends
2013
4.6A love triangle revolving around the lives of a filmmaker, a thief and their mutual love interest.
Roy
2015
6.5Bob Biswas, a hitman-for-hire, comes out of a prolonged coma and struggles to recall his identity but suffers a moral dilemma when the memories of his past resurface.
Bob Biswas
2021
NRMaya, an Indian who has grown up in London, comes to Darjeeling to shoot her first ever Bengali film. The shoot was continuing unhindered until one fine morning, when Rai, the female lead of the film, is nowhere to be found. Even her fiancé and the male lead of the film, Arindam, has no clue, leaving everyone is worried. The shoot is stalled until Rai decides to come back. Meanwhile, Rai ends up at a secluded resort amidst the jungles. For company, she only has the driver of her car, Jeetu. As new friendships emerge and old ties are wounded, perhaps there is an old bond somewhere in the past, that gets mended as well.An entire film unit putting up at a heritage hotel in the lap of Himalayas while a love story opens up a new chapter as the shoot goes on.
Chhaya O Chhobi
2017
7.1Ambitious businessman Shyamalendu enjoys showing his visiting sister-in-law, Tutul, the extravagant life he leads with his wife. But Tutul is less than impressed with the trappings of wealth.
Company Limited
1971
NRA group of ghosts are rendered homeless as all the old haunted buildings in Kolkata have been converted into multi-storied buildings, malls and multiplexes. Some of them, from varied social-economic background, take shelter in an abandoned, dilapidated single-screen theatre, planning to make themselves relevant and fit for the future as contemporary ghosts.
The Ghosts of the Future
2019
NRGrieving the loss of his father, an aspiring violinist finds an old memoir in his new apartment. As he investigates the professor who wrote it, unsettling parallels force him to confront his identity and the choices defining his life.
Dispersion
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7.3Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people’s curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.
Ek Je Chhilo Raja
2018
NRRe-Routing is a psychological thriller. The film centers on two individuals trapped in self-centered and claustrophobic lives. Throughout one night, their chance encounter forces them to confront their inner struggles and offers the possibility of "Re-Routing" each other's lives. The story emphasizes the possibility of empathy and redemption, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Re-Routing
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5.8Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.
Antaheen
2009
6.0An affair that begins one rainy evening on a lonely Calcutta street. And ends on yet another rainy evening in the Andaman Islands. A journey dotted by love, jealousy and destiny, it is loosely inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.
Hrid Majharey
2014
6.0This is a story of four friends & school buddies. Out of them, only Ashim is an earning person, he is a doctor. Earlier, they started a Bangla Band, where Hari was the lead singer, but they were heavily thrashed by the public in a stage show in North Bengal. They decided not to sing any more. Then they started a traveling agency. On their first trip, they start the journey with only 9 passengers and a girl who later joins them. The film deals with their journey via Kalimpong. The ten passengers are of ten different types and also the four tour operators are of four different natures. As the journey progresses, their characters were revealed one by one.
Let's Go...
2008
7.2Every night at 10, Kolkata tunes into radio to listen to 'Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz' - an episodic series of unrequited love stories hosted by RJ Alfaz who, despite his tremendous following, prefers staying detached and anonymous. Among his many fans is the boisterous Archana, a girl working at a creative agency – which designs branded memes. She is leukodermic but lives life to the fullest. They meet; or rather talk, for the first time over a misplaced call, when Archana accidentally dials Alfaaz's number, while trying to connect with her latest blind date. Thus begins an interesting relationship between two unlikely characters, one overly compensating, but in denial of her present, and the other buried under a dark secret of his past.
Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz
2018