Suman Mukhopadhyay

Five directors come together to narrate five different romantic tales, with one common ingredient - "Love".

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It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. She tells him that she will never see him again. Despondent, he returns to his rented apartment and is chided by his landlady, Lillian, who threatens to have him evicted as he has been delinquent in paying his rent for over a year...

Post his parents' divorce, Soumyo lives with his father in San Francisco but returns to Kolkata after his mother dies. There, he learns a lot about his mother through her diary and all her belongings.

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.

Whenever love leaves, it leaves traces. Those traces cling on to old times and familiar spaces.

Gundeep and Nikhat are making a documentary on the government-based project of psycho women who killed several kids with her daughters. Prajakta Deshpande was a psycho woman who would sleep with men and kill them after robbing their valuables this bought a very bad upbringing for her daughter Rega who also lost mental imbalance as she was badly abused by Prajakta. Prajakta then married military officer Deshpande and had a daughter Shikha and things were going fine but old habits die soon.

A documentary on the infamous Bengali magic realist, Nabarun is an exclamation mark in Bengali literature, the emphatic interjector. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of Nabarun's mind as his characters shamelessly hustle, behave atrociously and try to exist in a violent hostile world.

Tired of the corrupt Communist regime and its policies, a group of flying humans and black magicians join forces to hatch a conspiracy and wage a guerrilla attack against the totalitarian government and overthrow it.

Indrajit (played by the consistently stellar Ritwick Chakraborty) is an intelligent if indecisive man of 35 on holiday from Kolkata to visit his old college friend Moloy. He arrives to find Moloy constantly battling with his neglected wife Tuki, a formidable woman seeking elsewhere for the tenderness she fails to receive at home. In town, Indrajit comes across a familiar man whose insistence that they’ve never met before clearly masks an intriguing secret. Then, Indrajit runs into an old lover and her jealous husband, setting the stage for some fierce confrontation.

Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short stay threatens to become permanent.

'Nazarband', the National Award-winning filmmaker's first outing in Hindi, is inspired by a short story by much- revered Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi and depicts the journey of two young people.

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.

Manju Singh and her husband are hosting a get-together of families on a really warm night. Between the snacks, drinks and the laughs, something completely unexpected happens.

Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story is about people and their lives getting caught in the conflict between global change and old-world bigotry.

A citified executive meets an idealistic journalist who challenges his values as he negotiates with tribal peoples to acquire their land for mining.

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 of Shillong. The iconoclastic Amit clashes with the sincerely simple Labanya. Labanya releases Amit's own submerged depth of sincerity, which he finds hard to adjust to. The struggle makes him a curiously pathetic figure. The tragedy is understood by the girl who releases him from his troth and disappears from his life.

The film is about a couple and how their relationship changes amid the pandemic and the lockdown.

Three stories show the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the increasing pollution of the spoken language, and the changing social fabric of Bengal.

Doll’s House is a Hindi play starring Swastika Mukherjee, Subhrajyoti Barat, Ratnabali Bhattacharya and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. Keya is a pampered wife and her husband, Shubhodeep, treats her like his most prized possession. All decisions are made by Shubhodeep and the only time Keya lies to her husband is when she takes help from Bansi, her husband’s colleague. Will Bansi spill the beans and put her marriage at stake?