Movies: Jahar Ganguli

Kamona is a Bengali drama film directed by Nabendu Sundar. This movie was released on 4 March 1949 under the banner of Kirti Pictures. This is the second film of Bengali actor Uttam Kumar after Drishtidan and his debut as the leading person crediting...

An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a stone that changes iron to gold on touch. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007....

Shudhu Ekti Bachhar is a romantic comedy that is based on a comical situation which finds the female protagonist having to marry a complete stranger according to her father's will. The stranger she is to be married is a funny boy whom she is at cross...

A philanderer, the only son of a wealthy doctor, is attracted to a poor orphaned artist. Her stepbrother loathes rich people, and would go to any extent to get money off them. What would happen if the roles reversed?...

A 1955 Bengali Drama Film directed by Haridas Bhattacharya....

A LOST 1958 Bengali Film Directed by Agragami....

A father who is ill, is worried about his family in case of his demise. Will he be able to secure their future or will all his hopes crumble?...

Ramesh is the eldest brother in a close-knit joint family. When his salary is doubled, he pays more attention to his wife and child's needs, making others jealous. The family disintegrates as members start moving out to live separate lives. Will they...

A run-of-the-mill girl....

One of the early films of Chhabi Biswas featuring him as a leading man, before he came to be associated with the dominating patriarch roles that have become iconic in Bengali cinema, the film is a tale of the love, relationships and ideals of two gen...

Love story of Tapasi and Kiriti in the backdrop of social and cultural conflict regarding marriages and progressiveness....

The widower land-lord fixes his wayward step-brother's alliance with priest's daughter. Groom disappears on wedding day, and he is forced to marry her. The brother comes back and when the elder brother dies, tries to dispossess the widow....

Ambernath a well-educated Sanskrit pundit was different from his childhood. The way he thought and described everything was quite different from others. His master Jagannath Tarka Churamoni loved him a lot and after his death, Ambernath took his plac...

A 1954 Bengali Drama Film directed by Nirendranath Lahiri....

When a wealthy man accidentally stumbles upon his lookalike who is poor, the two of them decide to swap places in a bid to escape from their problems. Things take quite an interesting turn after that....

A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of the taboos of widowhood emerge; but so, too, does a philosophy of life and hope for the future. The performers collectively won Best Actress at India's ...

Niren Lahiri directs this social-minded melodrama about the complicated relationship between a traditional Hindu family headed by Madhab Thakur (Choudhury) and their progressive next-door neighbor Mukherjee (Chhabi Biswas). Thakur's daughter, Malati ...

Manik is mentally and physically abused by the manager of the orphanage he lives in. However, when he runs away to Calcutta, he finds himself in deeper trouble in a far more dangerous world....

The story revolves around Basanthi who is constantly criticized by her in-laws for being childless. Her husband believes that she is having an affair with his sister's husband and plans to kill her....

Ananda, an upcoming writer leaves his village to pursue his writing career in Kolkata...