Stories Set in Kolkata

Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child…

Set in the tumultuous Naxalite uprising in Bengal in 1971 Byomkesh Bakshi gets involved in a story of vengeance when he decides to attend a play at the theatre and becomes witness to a crime unfolding on the center…

In 1870s India Charulata is an isolated artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy he convinces his cousin Amal to spend time…

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband only to find that nothing is what it seems.

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski…

A taxi driver is caught between a dysfunctional relationship between a woman and her father as he drives them to Kolkata.

Kathiresan aka Kaththi a criminal escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai where he comes across his doppelganger Jeevanandham fighting for his life after being shot at by unknown men. Kathir decides to pass…

Several murders have taken place through out the city of Kolkata. A Serial killer is believed to be responsible. The mods operandi being that the killer always caries out the murder according to verses in Bengali…