FR #446 | TV | Comedy | UK, India | Bengali, English
Writer
John Sullivan
Cast
David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack
Plot
Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.
FR #654 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | India | Bengali
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray, Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri
Cast
Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Plot
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
A mysterious man arrives as a servant in a dysfunctional and fragmented joint family and over time, helps them to rebuild the love and compassion within the family.
A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
FR #970 | Movie | Musical, Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
Cast
Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi
Plot
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
FR #1199 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, Kannada
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Mani Shankar Mukherjee, Satyajit Ray
Cast
Pradip Mukherjee, Rafique Ahmed, S. Bagchi
Plot
A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity...
As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
A person comes to meet with Gauri Shankar Roy (Uttam Kumar) living in Kolkata. He introduces himself as a 'fauji Sardar' of Jhind, Jhind being a small kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. He says that the to-be king of Jhind, Shankar Singh,...
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
FR #1725 | Movie | Mystery, Romance | India | Bengali
Director
Agradoot
Writer
Agradoot, Nitai Bhattacharya, A.J. Cronin
Cast
Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Kamal Mitra, Chhabi Biswas, Pahadi Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty
Plot
A poor lawyer get to know that his father was jailed for a women's murder he didn't commit. To prove his father's innocence protagonist left his home to conduct his own investigation and when every situation got against him, he fo...
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 t...
FR #2228 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Bengali, German
Director
Ajoy Kar
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Binoy Chatterjee
Cast
Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Khitish Acharya, Chhabi Biswas, Tulsi Chakraborty
Plot
Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.
One fateful night, a police station in Bangladesh, and a motley crowd consisting of criminals, an eminent industrialist, media, general public. What does this night have in store for them?
In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unh...
Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.
FR #3213 | Movie | Drama | Bangladesh, Japan | Bengali, Japanese
Director
Zahir Raihan
Writer
Zahir Raihan, Amjad Hossain
Cast
Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar
Plot
A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small town. His taxi is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows the love of taxi driver Bimal and his pathetic vehicle Jagaddal.
A struggling actor becomes a professional impostor, hired to impersonate people for financial gain, but as he delves deeper into his work he becomes embroiled in trouble that threatens to unravel his life.
FR #3573 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Bangladesh, France | Bengali, French
Director
MD. Hafizur Rahman, Giasuddin Selim
Writer
Arif Hossain, Giasuddin Selim
Cast
Chanchal Chowdhury, Farhana MILI, Shirin Alam
Plot
A housemaid is killed by a local landlord's son. His servant takes the blame for the murder, to save the landlord's mentally ill son and is marooned in an island named Monpura. There the servant comes across a fisherman's daughter.
FR #3712 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Mrinal Sen
Writer
Manik Bandopadhaya, Samaresh Basu, Probodh Sanyal
Cast
Madhavi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy, Utpal Dutt
Plot
An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
This film mainly consist of clashes between four boys and some girls of the hostel namely 'Basanta Bilap'. Both the parties uses hilarious tricks upon one another but evidently the three boys of the group falls in love with three ...
FR #4220 | TV | Crime, Drama | Bangladesh | Bengali, Hindi
Cast
Suborna Mustafa, Asaduzzaman Noor, Afsana MIMI
Plot
Follows the adventures of the endearing gangster and thug, Baker Bhai. Through a series of dangerous adventures, Baker Bhai tries to keep control of his territory, while also trying to do what's right and protect the weak.
Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in Kolkata. The movie revolves around multiple characters - hotel employees to page ...
The pride and honour of two clubs are at stake on a coveted shield final. As the characters associated with them search for glory with football, what ensues can only be described as a laugh riot.
Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisati...
A young girl, Archana, falls in love with Sukhendu, an educated young man. Her father gladly accepts Sukhendu as his son-in-law. But Sukhendu's income and nature come in way of this marriage.
Eken Babu's vacation in Puri turns deadly when a Kathakali artist gets killed. As more deaths follow, Eken must unravel the tangled past of the victims and suspects to unmask the killer lurking in the shadows.
FR #5748 | Movie | Biography, Family | India | Bengali
Director
Anik Datta
Writer
Anik Datta, Sreeparna Mitra, Utsav Mukherjee
Cast
Jeetu Kamal, Saayoni Ghosh, Debashis Roy
Plot
This film is a tribute to master filmmaker Satyajit Ray in his birth centenary and it's inspired by the story behind the making of Ray's iconic film 'Pather Panchali'.
Ayan Banerjee, Mahua Roy Chowdhury, Sandhya Roy, Biswajeet Chatterjee
Plot
The story revolves around a mischievous teenager, Rasik, who is the only son of a wealthy landlord. One day, Rasik makes some misdeeds in school and gets suspended. He escapes from home but his father's mentor (gurudev) finds him ...
When the messengers of 'Yamraj'- God of Death - mistakenly bring an alive, honest person to hell, he starts a revolution to fix outdated rules of heaven and hell.
Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They make four short story in this film with one theme: Death.
A doctor falls in love with the granddaughter of a rich man. She helps him to pursue his dream of higher education by giving him her mother's jewellery to sell. The fate of the two lovers after the doctor's return is not a sweet o...
In this quest narrative that makes the Odyssey look like a trip to the mall, four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist.
FR #7091 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali, English
Director
Goutam Ghose
Writer
Manik Bandopadhaya, Goutam Ghose
Cast
Raisul Islam Asad, Champa, Roopa Ganguly, Utpal Dutt, Rabi Ghosh
Plot
Hossain, a Bengali Muslim wants to establish a little Utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim.
Rajat, a young man, meets Manju, a rich girl whose father is looking for her. Though Rajat initially slyly tells her father her whereabouts, he lands up falling in love with her.
A street romeo stalks a girl, highly educated and above in social ladder. She falls in love, marries, and changes him, forcing him to study and leave his friends. He feels suffocated. He reaches top, and gets a chance to break free.,
Shekhar and Lalita love each other, but Shekhar's father brainwashes him to marry a rich woman. When Girin enters Lalita's life, Shekhar begins to feel insecure about Lalita's relationship with him.
FR #7590 | Movie | War, Drama | Bangladesh | Bengali
Director
Humayun Ahmed
Writer
Humayun Ahmed
Cast
Bipasha Hayat, Asaduzzaman Noor, Abul Hayat
Plot
In the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides him...
A rib-tickling comedy about a group of spirits who, in their various idiosyncrasies, try and save their only haunt, their resting place, when some unscrupulous builders try and break it down to build a modern monstrosity.
FR #8120 | TV | Mystery, Comedy | India | Bengali, Hindi
Writer
Sahana Dutta
Cast
Ritwick Chakraborty, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Ananya Sen
Plot
Can a detective afford to be forgetful? Or maybe a 'defective' can? Gourab Sen aka Gora is a private detective who, with his partner-in-crime, Sarathi, cracks the most complicated cases of serial killing in his own quirky way.
A hilarious romantic-comedy where two people have their luggage exchanged during a train journey. One of them (Soumitra) is a psychiatrist, and he develops a keen interest in knowing the other party (Aparna Sen). His experience as...
The story set in the late 1930s in a remote village in Bengal, immediately before World War II. It portrays how poverty, famine, unemployment kills humanity.
Based on Narayan Gangopadhyay’s creation, Potoldangar Charmurti is the story of Tenida and his three followers, who go on a holiday and end up solving a mystery case.
