Lily Chakravarty – MRQE

Herbert

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on Nabarun Bhattacharyas novel of the same name which won the highest literary prize in India in 1997, Suman Mukhopadhyays debut feature Herbert is a deeply moving and artistically accomplished motion picture full of profound laughter, pathos, and humanity.

Chupke Chupke

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mischievous botany professor Parimal Tripathi plays a little trick on his brother-in-law Raghav. Jealous of the high esteem in which his own wife, Sulekha, holds the other man, Parimal decides to impersonate Raghav’s new driver. Laying the groundwork for a series of hilarious misunderstandings, the disguised professor throws doubt on his wife’s fidelity and gets his best buddy, Sukumar, to help out by impersonating Parimal.

Chokher Bali

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.

Uttoran

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sen Gupta, a doctor who only treats upper-class patients, is forced to confront his own moral and medical beliefs as he discovers rural India during an unexpected stop at a village. He finds a breathless man lying on the side of the road. With little sympathy, the doctor sends him back to his own village for treatment. When Dr. Gupta discovers that the villages wants a witch doctor to treat the man, he attends the exorcism and is shocked. A transformation of the cold city man then follows.

Shakha Proshakha

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the familyincluding an addled fourth son (Soumitra Chatterjee) who lives with the old manwatches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the fathers moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.

Jana Aranya

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.