Movies: Debojyoti Mishra

The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms with her late son’s sexual identity....

An insight into the life of late writer-director Rituparno Ghosh, the iconic cultural figure from West Bengal (India), who pushed and transgressed the boundaries of sexuality, feminism, and freedom of thought. The film is about an artist's relationsh...

The Hound of the Baskervilles...

Psychiatrist Dr Abhiri Chatterjee receives a phone call in the middle of the night. The caller, who wants to commit suicide, is also a murderer on the loose — or so it appears....

An award-winning aging actress reflects on her life while writing a suicide note....

Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has fi...

Madly Bangalee is a Bengali rock band that inspires the film’s title. They rehearse in a dowdy garage of Kolkata, owned by Bobby (Lew Hilt), who owns Bobby’s Garage. Four young boys with stardust in their eyes practise their numbers not knowing what ...

An existential playwright and novelist Isha reads her novel to her partner, Agnibha, who is a ruthless critic. While in the middle of the reading, Agnibha presents his critical viewpoints, which initiates a discourse between them and unveils the cobw...

Kheya, a theatre artist, faces challenges in her personal and professional life spanning from 1950 to 1970s in a world dominated by misogynistic men....

A hilarious comedy about a Bengali patriarch Banku Babu who dominates his entire household in completely averse to changes until he meets with an accident which results in about of amnesia. When a local promoter demands his ancestral house, Banku Ba...

Raktokorobi is a 2017 Indian Bengali film directed by Amitava Bhattacharya, starring Kaushik Sen, Rahul, and Shantilla Mukherjee. It was released in Hollywood as Red Oleanders Raktokarobi with English subtitles....

Ek Mutho Chabi is a Bengali feature-film released in September 2005. As the name suggests, the movie does not tell one continuous story over 90 minutes; rather it's a compilation of six different stories combined together, all of around 20–25 minutes...

Defying his father’s wishes by following his rebellious uncle’s example, a young Bengali from an upper caste tries to help those on the lower end of the spectrum and, while he’s at it, offers to marry his brother’s pregnant mistress....

Kajal and Sraboni, two people in their mid-thirties, meet at a reality game show audition. A freak accident injures Sraboni and Kajal takes her to the doctor. On the way, they share two engrossing stories from their lives which culminates in an ironi...

After a Parsee millionaire ignores a letter from a mafia leader, his partner dies and his partner's son gets kidnapped. He hires Kiriti Roy to investigate the case and find the culprit....

A 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, dilapidat...

Arshinagar is a Bengali musical romance drama film directed by Aparna Sen. The screenplay is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....

Kiriti Roy and his wife Krishna goes to Puri for their honeymoon, where Kiriti meets his longtime neighbor Kali Sarkar. Kali is a gold merchant and a master in mathematics and chess. However, Kali suddenly goes missing and Kiriti gets involved in the...

The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills o...

Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer....