Movies: Jayanto Chattopadhyay

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world....

A teenage boy is hired along with the music group of his father by a Zamindar (landlord) for entertaining him until the annual flood is over in the Haor region of East Bengal. But the boy finds out that he has to do something more than the rest of th...

An old landlord wants to spend his last days with his family but they don't want to come to his place, so he mimics his own death to bring them....

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there....

A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives....

A young man who lives nearby an airport finds himself in trouble upon meeting a mysterious stranger....

An apparently passive young man comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life....

A House Named Shahana' is about Dipa, a divorced woman who lives in a small town in '90s Bangladesh. The film explores how she overcomes a failed marriage, social taboos and the burden of family honour by the strength of her courage, sense of humour,...

A lonely 11-year-old befriends two street children after running away from his neglectful parents....

The story unfolds around the struggle of Tithi, a young girl from a lower middle-class family in Bangladesh. Tithi becomes a call girl to support her family. Tithi’s brother gets married and surprisingly discovers that working can also give satisfact...

During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, in a remote village, a landlord collaborated with the Pakistani army. After the death of his brother, he married his sister-in-law who had a young son. A teacher in the village, with a widowed daughter, t...

While making a film based on the Mahabharata episode of Eklavya's offering of honorarium to his Guru Dronacharya, a film director discovers a new truth, which drives him to change and add something new to the screenplay....

Financed in the west and shot on location in North Bengal, Halt is a profound story that transcends time and border and penetrates into the realm of the inner cravings of the human soul. Award-winning director Gaushey Alexander is poised to release t...

Set in 16th century Eastern Bengal, the film is inspired by the life of Chandrabati, Bengal`s first feminist poet. The story follows her falling in love with another poet, Jayananda, who later leaves her for another woman. The betrayal pushes Chandra...

The film brings to light the lives of jatra artists and their struggles to make a living off the dying performing art....

Woman in South Asian region always remain dependent on their Father, Brother, Husband or, Son in their different stages of life. They never achieve their own home, own address. The story is portraying womanhood of South Asia and depicts the life of S...

The film revolves around a family's experiences during 1971, providing a poignant portrayal of the era....

The story of a lonely man who is caught in a perpetual cycle of time. He hangs in limbo, between reality and dreams. His only companions are a maid, a cat, and a grandfather clock. The same things are happening in his life and he becomes increasingly...

A touching story of a simple man caught up in the terror of 1971 Bangladesh....

The film is made about farmers life in Bangladesh. This has led to the struggle of the Farmers and the tortures and injustice of local high command and landlords on them. In 1946-1947, this movement was formed against the landlords and the British in...