Movies: Kanu Bannerjee

A depiction of the life of an impoverished early twentieth century rural Bengali family....

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, a...

Arko, a film student, invites Subir Banerjee, who played the legendary role of Apu, to attend an award ceremony in Germany. But the old man hesitates to accept the invitation....

The widower land-lord fixes his wayward step-brother's alliance with priest's daughter. Groom disappears on wedding day, and he is forced to marry her. The brother comes back and when the elder brother dies, tries to dispossess the widow....

Ambernath a well-educated Sanskrit pundit was different from his childhood. The way he thought and described everything was quite different from others. His master Jagannath Tarka Churamoni loved him a lot and after his death, Ambernath took his plac...

This is a very old Bengali movie which shows Sri Ramakrishna's innocent and pure devotion to the divine mother. India, with her wealth of spiritual tradition, has produced many spiritual giants. One of the greatest was Ramakrishna (1836-1886). His l...

Niren Lahiri directs this social-minded melodrama about the complicated relationship between a traditional Hindu family headed by Madhab Thakur (Choudhury) and their progressive next-door neighbor Mukherjee (Chhabi Biswas). Thakur's daughter, Malati ...

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A miser bequeaths his property to his two destitute nephews, provided they within a month marry girls who are well mannered, high family, beautiful and young (22-24 age) issue-less divorcees, divorced within 2 months of marriage....

A 1954 Bengali Drama Film directed by Nirendranath Lahiri....

Bhupen is an excellent student who works as a private tutor to support his education and family. He begins to teach Sandhya who is a rich man's granddaughter. She ends up falling for him and that ruins his career, even though he did not feel the same...

A run-of-the-mill girl....

Anu and Binay love each other and wish to get married but face opposition from her greedy uncle. They decide to elope but are caught and separated due to unforeseen circumstances....

A 1955 Bengali Drama Film directed by Sudhangshu Mukhopadhyay & written by Prabhabati Devi Saraswati....

A narration of the journey of a young aspiring writer. Sandhya Rani and Uttam Kumar won critical favor for their performance in the film....

A naive Sanskrit poet, shunned for falling in love with a low-caste Indian woman, faces challenges after entering into a competition with a princess....

A rich industrialist and womanizer, Nirendra, has a poor woman, Atashi, kidnapped. In the struggle, she loses her memory. Atashi recovers in Nirendra's care and the two begin to fall in love....

A lonely girl faces several odds in society after her mother's death. Later, she gets attracted to a witty man, who decides to marry her....

Krishna, the daughter of a penny-pincher, falls for their tenant, Sunil. However, when Sunil leaves to forge a career, her insensitive father fixes her marriage with someone else for money....

Setap, a money-minded man, gets insecure when he hears a rumour about his dutiful wife and spendthrift brother, Mahatap. Soon, things go out of hand when Setap's rage takes over. Setap became mad hearing those words from Ghoton....