National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
all the movies that won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
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- DirectorNaresh MitraStarsSavitri ChatterjeeAnup KumarUttam Kumar
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
- DirectorSubodh MitraStarsKaberi BoseUttam KumarNitish MukherjeeA timeless love story with societal barriers: Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna, faces obstacles in her love for Ranjan due to caste differences.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsChhabi BiswasOindrila TagoreRadhamohan BhattacharyaRahmat a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini.
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsKhitish AcharyaShishir BatabyalParijat BoseA lady doctor rescue an amnesiac patient and fells in love with him.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsChhabi BiswasGangapada BasuPadmadeviDepicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
- DirectorPrabhat MukherjeeStarsUttam KumarArundhati DeviDipti RoyGyanendra was a respectable lawyer with a respectable popularity. He was happily married to Sumoti who was a doting wife too. However Gyanendra had special feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day a fire breaks out in Gyanendra's house. Sumoti dies. Gyanendra does not make any attempt to save her. Instead he married Sarama after the incident. After many years when Gyanendra becomes the judge, he is brought face to face with his guilty self when he realizes that the accused had committed the same kind of crime as he did many years ago. He realizes his crime. Watch the full movie, Bicharak, only on Eros Now.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsKim StanleyLloyd BridgesSteven HillA woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSharmila TagoreSoumitra ChatterjeeChhabi BiswasA young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
- DirectorRajen TarafderStarsUjjwal BandyopadhyayDurgadas BannerjeeShefali BannerjeeThis is one of the best films of great director Rajen Tarafdar. He has beautifully portrayed the life of fishermen and their relation with the river. Bilas a poor fisherman who had lost his father and spend his life by catching fish on the river Ganga. A simple girl suddenly changed his life and confused him a lot. After lots of confusion, he took a bold step, left his beloved, and moved towards sea for a better future and hope. Bilas lost his father in the sea. Therefore, he caught fish in the river Ganga and sold them to different fish sellers. One day he met a girl and fell in love with her. Their love was deep and they were very much committed to each other. Unfortunately, the girl also used to sell fish in market. Bilas and his community had a social taboo. They did not allow such relations, which might affect their business. The girl bought fish from Bilas. In such a situation, both of them became confused. The girl was eager to move away with him, but Bilas was not mentally prepared for the whole incident. Later Bilas had decided to leave his beloved and move towards the sea for a better future and hope.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsAnil ChatterjeeChandana BanerjeeAparna SenBased on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsSuchitra SenUttam KumarKhitish AcharyaSet in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.
- DirectorTarun MajumdarDilip MukherjeeSachin MukherjeeStarsDilip MukherjeePahadi SanyalAnil ChatterjeeA story about a young man, who had to quit his studies as a doctor due to difficult circumstances, coming back and saving a young lady by performing a very difficult surgery.
- DirectorAsit SenStarsAjit BanerjeeKalipada ChakrabortyChhayadeviA story of love and sacrifice of a mother who did everything to protect her child ,even from her husband.
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsGouri BanerjeePanchanan BhattacharyaIra ChakrabortyA young girl, Archana, falls in love with Sukhendu, an educated young man. Her father gladly accepts Sukhendu as his son-in-law. But Sukhendu's income and nature come in way of this marriage.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsAnil ChatterjeeArundhati DeviKajal GuptaSatadal (Uttam Kumar) is a civil engineer with a successful career and a loving wife Madhuri (Arundhati Devi). However, their relationship runs into rough weather from the emotional stress and strain of childlessness.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsAjitesh BannerjeeKali BannerjeeChhayadevi
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeAparna SenSubhendu ChatterjeeAjay Sarkar, a lower middle-class man pretends to be a successful businessman in order to win the hand of Monica, a girl from an affluent family.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsMadhavi MukherjeeBijon BhattacharyaAbhi BhattacharyaA man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister and the orphan (Satindra Bhattacharya) they adopted years earlier.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsUttam KumarSharmila TagoreBireswar SenEn route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams, and past experiences.
- DirectorBijoy BoseStarsBikash RoyRuma Guha ThakurtaSubhendu ChatterjeeIn Nabagram village an MBBS doctor Pradyut Sen came for his practice. In that village another Ayurvedic doctor Jibon Sen also lived and he had a roaring practice. Ayurvedic Sen had a habit of saying the lifespan of his patients. Pradyut disliked it very much and protested repeatedly against this myth. As a result an obvious ego clash and a communication gap and misunderstanding developed between them. Originally Pradyut was the only grandchild of Jibon Sen. Though Jibon's son Satyabandhu got married to a Christian girl, that's why he was not acceptable by his father. After a lot of drama Jibon came to know everything and accepted his daughter in law and grandchildren. Watch the full movie, Arogya Niketan, only on Eros Now.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsChhayadeviSwarup DuttSamit BhanjaSet against the backdrop of the political violence that rocked India, and West Bengal in particular, in the late 1960s, it tells the story of an aged widow in a village who goes to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent violence.
- DirectorDinen GuptaStarsSamit BhanjaGita DeyKajal GuptaForced by her guardian-aunt to marry the son of the stationmaster, she runs away from her marital home but finds herself unwelcome everywhere
- DirectorAjoy KarStarsBhanu BannerjeeSavitri ChatterjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeThe story as well as the film take their title from the Bengali Culture Custom of exchanging garlands as it is the part of the wedding rituals. Jatin, a young doctor, is nagged by his cousin Patal to get married. She introduces Kurani, an innocent girl, to Jatin. What happens next, is a heartbreaking tragedy.
- DirectorTarun MajumdarStarsSandhya RoyKali BannerjeeAnup KumarA boy from Calcutta (Anup Kumar), while on a visit to his aunt in her village, falls in love with a girl (Sandhya Roy) , what follows is a story of love, longing and sacrifice. One of the finest movies of Indian Cinema
- DirectorPurnendu PattreaStarsNimu BhowmickAshim ChakarbartiSantosh DuttaA worthy companion to Ray's Charulata, the film is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore where a young wife goes against her family to save a young girl from the atrocities of the society.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeBobitaSandhya RoyAs food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeSantanu BagchiAjoy BanerjeeA young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
- DirectorRajen TarafderStarsUtpal DuttSandhya RoyAnwar HossainRajmohan remains in Pakistan at the time of partition and sells Maqbool a giant bed, which upsets the local Muslims.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsSumitra MukherjeeDipankar DeyChhayadeviEk Je Chhilo Desh is a romantic comedy that tells the story of an odd scientist and his wonderful invention. It tells the story of how a scientist mistakenly creates a truth potion with the help of his niece. He tries it on many of his subjects, like the fraud grocer businessman, a rich and corrupted politician, his own thief servant and many others. All of them provide comical incidents and also show the underlying serious state of events of the world. It portrays the greed and lust for money and power, and what it drives people to do, the evil and bad character of men who are most selfish and egotistic. In a comedy of errors our lead finds back the love of his life who had left him earlier and in a turn of events saves his life. The movie is very comical with a social message and very ahead of its times.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsMamata ShankarPradip MukherjeeAjoy BanerjeeA professor in Kolkata marries a young woman. But when he learns that she is pregnant with someone else's child, he decides to leave her.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSatya BannerjeeGita SenMamata ShankarThe daughter of an economically middle-class family fails to return home one night.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshUtpal DuttThe musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsNirmal Kumar ChakrabortyBhishma GuhathakurtaManoj MitraUrmila is gang-raped by men from rich and influential families. She decides to get justice despite facing ostracism and humiliation from the society and the culprits' families.
- DirectorShekhar ChatterjeeStarsLily ChakravartyShekhar ChatterjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeVasundhara' is about the travails and tortures inflicted on sharecroppers by people like Haji and Rupchand of Asmanpur. Jagra and Nitai who protested against them are harassed. Sishir the new BDO tries to control matters but in vain. Haji and Rupchand even manage to create a riot between Hindus and Muslims. But the people finally understand their follies and unite against them. Sishir gets transferred but vows never to bow down.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeVictor BanerjeeSwatilekha SenguptaWhen the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsRakhee GulzarAparna SenMukul SharmaA 40-year-old married woman falls in love with a young man.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsSamit BhanjaBiplab ChatterjeeAloknanda DuttAn actor and a playwright becomes disgusted with contemporary drama trends of the time and resumes staying at his ancestral house with his helper and his mad love interest. He spends his time thinking about his disloyal wife who left him and talking with Rasu, the helper who mechanically gives company to his master. His sister in law comes to stay with him along with her son Kanu after the husband died and soon shares her bed with the playwright.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsVasant ChoudhuryPromode GangulyRabi GhoshA father encourages his daughter to marry a dying man in order to inherit his wealth.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDhritiman ChatterjeeDipankar DeyIn this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsMithun ChakrabortyAnusuya MajumdarDipankar DeyShibnath is released from prison after eleven years of incarceration for murdering a British officer.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttDimple KapadiaTathagata SanyalA writer moves into the palatial house of a friend to find creative inspiration. A chance telephonic chat with a mysterious woman blossoms into love as he finally finds what he was looking for.
- DirectorChidananda Das GuptaStarsPijush GangulyRachana BanerjeeAshok MukherjeeAmodini is a rich landowner's daughter. Unable to face social stigma, her father arranges her marriage to a much older person, who fails to turn up on the wedding day. To save the situation, she is forced to marry a 15-year-old boy.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsAnjan DuttRoopa GangulyPallavi ChatterjeeDiscords within a marital relationship are discovered to have parallels to ecological concerns.
- Rituparna is widowed within six months of her marriage. She returns to her parents' home, but it is not the same. Rituparna takes charge of the household, does a part-time job and takes up amateur acting.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsShakuntala BaruaNirmal Kumar ChakrabortyChandniOn her way home the newly wed Romita is molested by five men. The only one who has the courage to help is the young female teacher Jhinuk. Because of that she becomes a heroine and is on all papers' front page. But the page is turning: As not only the police but also neighbours begin to ask embarrassing questions the two women are eventually intimidated and the five man are getting free with the help of corruption and male domination.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyArpita ChatterjeeSudhamoy is forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. His life takes a drastic turn when his wife falls ill and gets hospitalized.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeAparna SenRituparna SenguptaExplores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. Sanaka and Paromita are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyIndrani HaldarThe film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
- DirectorUrmi ChakrabortyStarsKoushik BhattacharyaBiswajit ChakrabortySoma ChakrabortyAditi Majumdar is an educated middle-aged homemaker bored with her humdrum existence. Her friend Hemenmama encourages her to start writing, and soon her first work is published. Unfortunately, her family shows no enthusiasm and even disparages her literary efforts. Her husband stops her from meeting her friend. The painful realization comes and she decides to give up writing and composes a letter to Hemenmama informing him of this. Next day, she tears the letter and lets the winter breeze whisk away the pieces of paper.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSharmila TagoreNandita DasKalyani MandalAn actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAishwarya Rai BachchanPrasenjit ChatterjeeRaima SenBinodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
- DirectorShekhar DasStarsRoopa GangulyShilajit MajumdarSoumitra ChatterjeeStory of a so-called terrorist, who actually has been compelled to take this route of life
- DirectorSuman MukhopadhyayStarsSubhasish MukherjeeLily ChakravartySabyasachi ChakrabartyHerbert, a middle-aged man who believes he can talk to the dead, experiences fame and fortune after one of his predictions come true. However, an organisation tries to expose him and ruin his life.
- DirectorAniruddha Roy ChowdhuryStarsRahul BoseRituparna SenguptaRaima SenRahul Chatterjee is a second-generation East Indian who lives in Birmingham, England, along with his wife, Nandita, and works as a Designer. Rahul's late father used to work in England, then re-located to Calcutta, where Rahul met Nandita, got married to her, and when she gave birth to a still-born baby, the devastated couple re-located to Bombay, and thereafter to Birmingham. Now his employer has negotiated a contract to re-develop Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas in India, and as a result Rahul gets transferred to Calcutta, which has now been re-named to Kolkata. He gets to meet with the Agent, Amit Bannerjee, who negotiated this project as well as his wife, Preeti. The two couples meet become friends and continue to meet often. Nandita gets a job as a Montessori school-teacher, while Amit takes a trip to London amidst protests from the Himalayan Gurkha community who are against any pollution-related development in this region. This is where he will get the devastating news of Rahul's sudden death near the Himalayas, and the even more shocking news of Rahul's affair with Preeti. Watch what impact this news has on Nandita, her sister, Mitha, as well as on Preeti's mother and the rest of the community.
- DirectorSuman GhoshStarsSavitri ChatterjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeNandita DasThe story is about the trials and tribulations faced by Shashanka, a retired bank manager and widower, and his daughter Megha, while trying to maintain their professional lives and relationships.
- DirectorPinaki ChaudhuriStarsSabyasachi ChakrabartyMithu ChakrabortyBhaswar ChatterjeeThe film centres around an apartment Ballygunge Court, and deals with the lives of three middle aged couples and one elderly couple living there. Nearly all the children of the building have left to pursue a life of their own abroad, leaving their parents behind. Tragedy strikes on christmas when the elderly couple is murdered by robbers after they return from a party in another flat where all the members of the building had assembled. Their bodies are not discovered for a few days. The incident affects all the other members of the building as they try to come to terms with the deaths as well as their own solitude and loneliness. The film seeks to probe into the malady that prevails in our society, whereby the younger generation is obsessed with the thought of going abroad for a more lucrative career.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeBipasha BasuJisshu SenguptaIndraneel's sudden death averts a possible divorce, and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovery of her own roots through the language of poetry, and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past. She realizes how much he romanticized their mundane, everyday life. Yet in reality, he was often insensitive, negligent and apathetic towards her. She wonders about his dual identity. How can a poet be unaware of his day-to-day realities, yet highlight moments from it in his art? Is art essentially an artifice?
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsDipankar DeyMamata ShankarJisshu SenguptaAbohomaan tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bares an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film - so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the girl Deepti used to be and as a result the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.
- DirectorSomnath GuptaStarsAngana BasuBidipta ChakrabortyMithu ChakrabortyAn endearing love story in the time of cultural conflicts presenting the personal tragedy of the emigrant commoner caught in the crossfire of international wars.
- DirectorAnjan DuttStarsNondon BagchiUshasie ChakrabortyAbir ChatterjeeRanjana Ami Ar Ashbona is a 2011 Bengali language Indian rock musical drama film by Anjan Dutt.
- DirectorKaushik GangulyStarsRitwick ChakrabortyRaima SenChurni GangulyTarak is a professional foley artist whose obsession with creating sound effects for films makes him oblivious to all the talking around him. As his family and friends struggle to cope up with his changing soundscape, Dr Swati tries to figure out the roots of his obsession and finally succeeds to identify. Yet, Tarak plunges deeper and deeper into the world of the unheard as his love for cinema is unplugged.
- DirectorPradipta BhattacharyyaStarsSudipa BasuRitwick ChakrabortyDebesh Roy ChowdhuryPramit, an independent filmmaker who is yet to experience the spell of love in his otherwise not-so exciting life, starts shooting a documentary film on love. His exploration leads him to the baffling knowledge of an unforetold mysterious village, existent on what is believed to be the threshold of reality and fantasy. If anyone ever reaches there, stumbling upon a series of coincidences, cannot steer clear of the cupid's arrow, and readily falls in love. Pramit, along with his cameraperson starts looking for the village and subsequently passes through a succession of events which can be termed nothing but magical! Love, with all its colours - sublime as well as physical - doesn't fail to come his way too, or, does it really?
- DirectorChurni GangulyStarsChurni GangulySaswata ChatterjeeChristoffer AigeviThis is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsShajbatiPrasenjit ChatterjeeKusum SikderThis consequences of partition is felt when the daughter of schoolteacher is seriously ill at a border side village in modern Bangladesh.
- DirectorKaushik GangulyStarsJaya AhsanAbir ChatterjeeKaushik GangulyA love story between a Bangladeshi widow and Indian businessman.
- DirectorAtanu GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeIndrani HaldarSudipta ChakrabortyIn the modern world, with work pressures and financial woes mounting, isolation and stress becoming an integral part of life, most people believe that father and son bonding is becoming a thing of the past.
- DirectorSrijit MukherjiJyoti HazraStarsJisshu SenguptaJaya AhsanAnirban BhattacharyaMahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate (also known as the Bikrampur Estate), was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment along with his wife, Chandrabati Devi, brother-in-law, Satya, and a family doctor, Ashwini. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there as well. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people's curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.