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Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's ''Seemabaddha''. Biography Chanda was born in Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, but came to Kolkata at an early age to pursue higher education. Chanda acted in the 1971 Bengali movie ''Seemabaddha'', directed by Satyajit Ray. After that he did not appear in any films for over twenty years. In 1992 he again acted in director Rituparno Ghosh's debut film ''Hirer Angti''. Next he acted in ''Kalo Cheetah'' (2004). Since then he has acted in several movies like ''Tolly Lights'', ''Antaheen'', and ''Laptop''. He recently played the role of the landlord father of Sonakshi Sinha in the Hindi Film ''Lootera''. In 2014, he did commercials for CESC Limited with some social messages. In 2019, Barun Chanda starred in an independent psychological thriller, Rakkhosh, which has been touted as India's first POV film to be shot on cine ...
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Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city in the world with a population of 8.9 million residents as of 2011, and a population of over 21.7 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. According to a Demographia survey, Dhaka has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is popularly described as such in the news media. Dhaka is one of the major cities of South Asia and a major global Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks 39th in the world and 3rd in South Asia in terms of urban GDP. As part of the Bengal delta, the city is bounded by the Buriganga River, Turag River, Dhaleshwari River and Shitalakshya River. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and ...
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Anuranan
''Anuranan'' (English: Resonance) is the directorial debut by Bengali filmmaker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India. ''Anuranan'' (meaning "resonance" in Bengali) explores the relationships of two married couples, and the impacts and consequences of their relationships. Synopsis Rahul, a creative and sensitive individual, arrives at a lonely hill station in Sikkim to help build a new holiday resort. The friendship between the two couples, Rahul and Nandita and Amit and Preeti, paves the way for a deeper bond between Rahul and Preeti. Towards the end of the movie, this ''"anuranan"'' between the two is misunderstood by society, including Amit. This misunderstanding intensifies when Rahul suddenly dies, leaving Nandita lonely. The fact that the love between Rahul and Nandita was pure does not prevent Nandita from falling prey to the rumors as well. All the four main characters are depicted as lost and lonely. Awards and ...
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Chorabali (2016 Film)
, director = Subhrajit Mitra , producer = Pradip Churiwal , starring = Barun ChandaJune Malia Shataf Figar Sayani Datta Malobika BanerjeeLocket Chatterjee , music = Dibyendu Mukherjee , cinematography = Supratim Bhol , studio = Macneill Engineering , released = , runtime = 104 minutes , country = India , language = Bengali , budget = , gross = '' Chorabali'' ( bn, চোরাবালি, en, Quicksand) is a 2016 Bengali Suspense Thriller film directed by Subhrajit Mitra and produced by Pradip Churiwal, starring Barun Chanda, June Malia, Sayani Datta and Shataf Figar. The film is based on Agatha Christie's novel ''Cards on the Table''. Plot The story line inter tangles with the idea of perfect crime, as well as basic instincts of human emotions Greed, lust for power. It is a who-dunnit thriller, set in the backdrop of Kolkata with its British Raj charm. A doctor is killed in a ho ...
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Bela Seshe
''Bela Seshe'' (; also written as ''Belaseshe: In The Autumn of my Life'') is an Indian Bengali-language family drama film directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee and presented by Atanu Raychaudhuri. It is produced by Windows and distributed by Eros International. Veteran actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Swatilekha Sengupta played the lead roles in this film. This pair was last seen in Satyajit Ray’s iconic film "Ghare Baire", three decades earlier. The film also features Rituparna Sengupta, Aparajita Adhya, Monami Ghosh, Indrani Dutta, Sohini Sengupta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Shankar Chakraborty, Anindya Chatterjee, Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee, Barun Chanda and Sohag Sen in pivotal roles. Belaseshe is the story of the separation of a couple who are on the verge of celebrating their 50th marriage anniversary. It is a tale of relationships that explores the intricacies of married life, life-long companionship, promises and expectations, and the true meaning of love. Currently, th ...
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Roy (2015 Film)
''Roy'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by debutant Vikramjit Singh and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar and Ajay Kapoor under Freeway Pictures. The movie features Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead roles and Shernaz Patel, Rajit Kapur and Shibani Dandekar in supporting roles.Ranbir Kapoor does an extended cameo appearance. Anupam Kher appears in a cameo. The film is based on a filmmaker writing and directing movies about thefts and robberies. The movie had its premiere in Dubai on 12 February 2015 and was released worldwide on 13 February 2015 to negative reviews. Plot Kabir Garewal (Arjun Rampal), a casanova film maker and screenwriter, is making multiple films (GUNS Trilogy) based on a thief's life and robberies. The first two films have been highly successful. In order to shoot the third part of the trilogy, he goes to Malaysia, where he meets a London-based film maker Ayesha (Jacqueline Fernandez). Ka ...
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Chotushkone
''Chotushkone'' ( bn, চতুষ্কোণ; en, Quadrangle) is an Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Parambrata Chatterjee and Payel Sarkar.The film received positive reviews from critics. The film won the National Film Award for Best Director for Srijit Mukherji at India's 62nd National Film Awards. The film was a both critically and commercially successful. At the time of 2014, when Bengali films is on ventilation, films like Bachchan (2014 film) and Game (2014 film) also were hits, but Chotushkone was ran for 50 days in major cities of Kolkata.The film was blockbuster at the box-office. Synopsis The movie begins with an unknown woman writing a suicide note and then hanging herself from a ceiling fan. A man is seen holding hands with a kid and staring at the hanging woman. Then in black and white, portraying the past, we see a party at a bar as Nilanjana (Trina) and her cynical boyfriend Ritwick ...
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Mishawr Rawhoshyo
''Mishawr Rawhoshyo'' is a 2013 Indian adventure thriller film directed by Srijit Mukherji, based on the fictional character Kakababu created by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It stars Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Aryann Bhowmik, and many others. The plot revolves around a hieroglyphic trail that leads the protagonist to Egypt and underneath a pyramid. The film became one of the biggest hits of 2013 and gained a strong cult following from the audience and critics. The second film of this Kakababu series '' Yeti Obhijaan'' was released in 2017. The third film, ''Kakababur Protyaborton'', was released in 2022. Plot ''Mishawr Rawhoshyo'' starts with Kakababu (Prosenjit Chatterjee) and his nephew Shontu (Aryann Bhowmik) smiling after watching news informing of the imminent overthrow of the dictatorship in Egypt. The film rewinds into a flashback. It is 2010. Kakababu is contracted by Egyptian businessman Al Mamun ( Rajit Kapur) to decipher the meanings of ...
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Aborto
''Aborto'' is a Bengali film released on 1 March 2013 and directed by Arindam Sil in his directorial debut. According to Sil, this film would be the greatest tribute to Satyajit Ray that has ever been made. The film stars Bangladesh actress Jaya Ahsan, Tota Roy Chowdhury and Abir Chatterjee in lead roles. The screenplay was written by filmmaker Atanu Ghosh, but was not acknowledged on the posters by the director. Plot Shyamal Sen (Tota Roychowdhury) is GM sales for an MNC and is competing for the Vice President post of his company alongside Ranadip aka Runu Sanyal (Saswata Chatterjee). Shyamal hails from a middle-class family in Sonarpur where he has grown up with his elder brother (Kaushik Ganguly). He is now married to Charu (Joya Ahsan). Shyamal has always been jealous of his elder brother because he felt that his elder brother got all the attention in the family and was more intelligent among the siblings. He burned off his brother's certificates in a fit of rage as a child. ...
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Sector V
Sector may refer to: Places * Sector, West Virginia, U.S. Geometry * Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc * Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc * Spherical sector, a portion of a sphere enclosed by a cone of radii from the center of the sphere Social and economic * Business sector, part of the economy which involves the trading and sale of products by companies * Economic sector, the manufacturing, finance and production of goods for consumers * Private sector, business activity created by private enterprise for profit * Public sector, delivers social services, infrastructure and institutions administered by government * Voluntary sector, a non-profit and voluntary part of an economy provided by organisations * The sector of the sector directive in government procurement in the European Union Computing * Cylinder-head-sector, an early method for giving addresses to blocks of data on a hard drive * Di ...
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Hemlock Society (film)
''Hemlock Society'' is an Indian Bengali romantic dark comedy released on 22 June 2012, directed by Srijit Mukherji, who is also the director of ''Autograph'' and '' Baishe Srabon''. The film's cast consists of Parambrata Chatterjee, Koel Mallick, and Soumitra Chatterjee. The name is inspired by the erstwhile Hemlock Society, a society which was based in Santa Monica, US. The primary missions of this society included providing information to dying persons and supporting legislation permitting physician-assisted suicide. The movie was remade in Marathi in 2015 as ''Welcome Zindagi''. Plot The movie is a very strong insight into psychological dilemma about the primal existence of life. It reiterates the fact that you can 'shock someone by letting them know that death is impending and inescapable.’ It is a dark comedy which successfully evokes an awareness of life. The comic element is used dexterously to bring out the fear of death. The protagonist Meghna (Koel Mallick), mi ...
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Elar Char Adhyay
''Elar Char Adhyay'' is a 2012 Bengali film. The film is directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, produced by Dreamz Movies and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and based on Rabindranath Tagore's 1934 novel '' Char Adhyay''. Plot The film is set in India under British Raj in 1940s. Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country. Location Mostly the shooting location of Elar Char Adhyay is in Ichapur Nawabganj, a beautiful city near the bank of Ganges in North 24 Parganas West Bengal. In the movie, the palace picturized as Ela's home is originally named as Mandal Bhavan, which is one of the oldest and heritage palace of Ichapur. The school where Ela was teaching is Sridhar Bansidhar High School which is more than 100 years old. The arrival of Atin is shot in Ichapur Mandal Ghat, which is also one of the oldest Ghat of Ichapur. Cast ...
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