Movies: Rabindranath Tagore

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 with Charulata and nourish h...

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales...

When 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 ...

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural ta...

Based on Tagore’s works, Rebati is attracted to Neela’s seductive charms, the outcome of which leads to an unlikely conclusion. Watch the full movie on Hoichoi....

Since its inception in 1931, Mahishasuramardini has been one of the most popular programmes in Bengali radio, and is currently the longest running radio programme in India, narrated by Birendra Krishna Bhadra. This film is a truthful account of what ...

Anoop studies law in Calcutta, while his widowed mom in a small town in West Bengal. He has a sister, Sudha, who is married to Anil and lives in Calcutta. Since Anoop is of marriageable age, his mom has seen a girl for him, whose name is Vidya, and i...

Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different charac...

An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized by a corporation....

Samir Niyogi lives in India and is assigned by the Government to travel to Rajasthan, evaluate a princely castle that once belonged to Raja Param Singh, take stock of all items, the condition of the building, and report back to the Government. Enrout...

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...

A royal prince arrives on an island of fascist rule and inspires a rebellion among its women in this hallucinogenic adaptation of a classic play....

A Middle-Aged Woman named Sheba comes to an Obscure town named Nijhumgarh to be the Governess of a Renowned Household called "Ray Kuthi". But little did she know about the Bungalow and the dwellers. She is startled to know that two murders took place...

Rahmat, a middle-aged Afghan man, whose heart overflows with fatherly love for a little girl Mini, in the bustling city of Calcutta set in the year of 1965....

Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the ne...

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives....

Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illn...

Four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist. This is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film....

Tripti's ill son has been admitted to the hospital. A teacher by profession, she visits her son every day after school. One day on her way, she comes across her estranged husband, Sunil Ganguly....

Inspired by the life of Rishi Aurobindo, it’s a Bengali classic portraying the life of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh beginning from his return to India in 1892 to his life in Pondicherry in 1910. This film shows a detailed narration of his early life, marriage...