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"Ambi comes to Kumbakonam from Delhi and is shocked to see Vembu Iyer, his Vedic scholar father, unable to recognize his own son. Ambi learns from his mother that Vembu Iyer has retreated into silence ever since he heard about his son’s unhappy marriage. Gradually the old man’s self-guilt begins to surface."
The film opens with a wedding procession followed by the ritual sacrifice of a sheep and invocation to God. A teenage bride, Yesu has been married to the mentally retarded son of a lecherous old man. On the night of the wedding, the father-in-law tries to rape Yesu and in the scuffle he is killed. A frightened Yesu runs away and hides in an abandoned warehouse. The very next day a new warehouse keeper Edekar and his attendant Dharma, take charge of the warehouse. Yesu is discovered hiding behind some old bags of wheat. They feed her and let her stay for the night, but Edekar is afraid of giving refuge to the girl. As time passes, Dharma becomes friendly with herl and develops a protective attitude. His head office decides to send truckloads of food grain to the warehouse. Edekar is scared of the girl being found out. He starts drinking heavily and losing his sanity. Finally, in a fit of drunken fury, he ask Yesu to leave immediately. Back to his room he suffers from hallucinations about Yesu and the impending arrival of trucks. He runs to the warehouse. When he opens the door, he finds that Yesu has hanged herself.
A story based on a custom called Natha Pratha, which states that for any reason, if a woman wants to leave her husband, her father or any other person who supports her, has to pay compensation to her husband. If the said amount cannot be paid, villagers punish the woman. On the contrary, if a husband wants to leave his wife, he need not give any reason or explanation for doing so. One tortured woman throws away her inhibitions and stands up against this custom and gives a new definition to womanhood
Sunil, an NRI married to an American girl is returning to Kolkata after 15 years to see his father who has never reconciled to his marriage. A shock awaits him when he learns that his father has disappeared and no one knows where he has gone. The only people who could know are his sister Ruma who lives in Banaras, his younger brother Anil in Mumbai and their old servant Sambhu. With a deep sense of guilt Sunil hits upon a clue that suggests his father had spent the last few years at an old age home near Kolkata. The final blow is the discovery that his father had died a few months earlier and had been cremated because no one had claimed the body. It is at the home that Sunil meets Satyababu, who tells him that his father cared more for his children than they did for him.
Calcutta – one day the city is crippled by a heavy downpour. Everything goes topsy-turvy. A professor who has gone out for a while doesn’t return home for months, leaving his family in great anxiety. In the vacuum created by his absence, the family finds itself trapped in a new emotional world.
"Mammo marries a man from Lahore. After Partition, she and her husband become Pakistan citizens. Although childless, her marriage is a happy one until her husband’s death. Over property matters, Mammo is thrown out of the house by her relatives. She comes to India and unable to extend her visa she has to go back – political priorities defeat humanitarian ones!"
The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People. Dr. Ashoke Gupta is the head of a town hospital. Gupta’s younger brother, Nisith, is the head of the committees running the hospital and a temple. Dr. Gupta is convinced that the holy water of the temple is contaminated due to faulty pipe -laying that causes an epidemic in town. He warns his brother Nisith. Nisith, the Industrialist and other town officials reject the idea that holy water might be the cause of the epidemic. Left with no alternative, Dr. Gupta organises a public meeting that is also sabotaged. And Dr. Gupta is proclaimed an enemy of the people.
Ranjit is an educated and unemployed young man, desperately looking for a job. He is taught to use a gun by people who promise to show him a new way of life and lead him to a better future. One day, as instructed by these people, he shoots and kills Anuradha's husband. A few days later, Banajit Dutta, a Professor of the local college, is shot to death. As time goes by and Ranjit grows inevitably closer to Dutta's family, life in this strange prison becomes intolerable. Haunted by memories of the crime that he isn't allowed to forget, tortured by guilt and remorse, he struggles to find peace and retain his sanity.
"Naseem means the morning breeze. It’s the name of a young girl who lives with her family in Bombay. The year is 1992. This was a year when India, as a nation, went through traumatic times. A mosque was demolished and the riots, slaughter and savagery that followed have left wounds that will take years to heal."
"Thola, a sharecropper, was treated as a brother by the landlord, whose son Dharam Singh calls him uncle. Thola had married a nomad girl who was consequently forsaken by her parents. As a penance, Thola’s son Jagsir is condemned to remain unmarried. Jagsir falls in love with Bhani, the young bride of the local barber. Bhani too reciprocates the feeling and is punished by being sent away. When Thola dies, Jagsir builds a brick memorial, a marhi, on the land he used to till. Dharam Singh’s son Bhanta, resents the unofficial tenancy rights of Jagsir. Missing Bhani, Jagsir becomes addicted to opium. Unable to battle with Bhanta, he does not till the land. Bhanta breaks Thola’s marhi, and takes over the land given to Thola by his grandfather. Jagsir’s mother dies of shock and Jagsir starves himself to death. His friend, the water-carrier Ronki, builds his marhi in his memory, and Bhani lights the earthen lamp on it."
A social awareness shortfilm based on women’s menstruation cycle. Even in today’s generation women are often mocked & considered as impure during periods. The movie throws light on its importance & why women need not be ashamed of periods. Tag line - Period is a bliss, not taboo.
A daughter of poor parents was engaged to a man when she was 13. The man is away working in Calcutta. In the meanwhile, she befriends a truck-driver who promises her parents a huge amount of money. The girl is snatched away by her father-in-law and raped by him. But she is punished for his crime.
Maniram, the patriarch has amassed wealth by dubious means. He gets Tejo, a very beautiful woman, to marry his younger son. Intelligent Tejo gradually takes over her father-in-law’s business. Maniram remarries and in the meanwhile, his city-based elder son arrives to create a crisis, which eventually leads to Tejo’s sway over the family.
Of Indian origin, Francis Massey believes that he is closer to the British colonialists. Self-assured Massey dresses like a British bureaucrat. When the new Deputy High Commissioner arrives, he finds Massey to be a corrupt person. Massey is dreaming of marrying a tribal girl Saila, some day.
"Piroj and Pestonjee are two friends who get along well in spite of being so different in temperament. Piroj, an accountant, is reserved while Pestonjee, is an extrovert. Jeroo, a pretty girl and of marriageable age, is shown to both Piroj and Pestonjee on separate occasions. While Piroj dithers about marrying her, Pestonjee instantly makes up his mind, unaware that his friend has also seen and liked the same girl. Piroj is hurt, but it does not mar their friendship. Piroj is transferred to Bhusaval but continues to keep in touch. On a brief visit to Bombay he is shattered to discover that the marriage is on the verge of collapse."
It all starts with ""ACTION"" and ends with ""CUT"". Mithun, 5ft 4 inches short in height, not so good looking guy uses Method Acting in his day to day life to improve his acting skills. The journey of the Mithun starts with struggle and a series of mishaps around him and to which he tackles using Method Acting. In order to forget his problems which are causing him depression and self-doubts, Mithun adopts method acting in a way he forgets his own reality when he enters into a character saying ""Action"" and doesn't leave that character unless someone yells or says ""Cut"".In this journey/film Mithun undergoes self-training and adopts method acting in every moment which leads him to play over 19 characters in one single film.
The amendment in the law making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourbly by the rulling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.
"Rich middle-aged widow Damayanti, a high society patron of the arts, hosts a party in honour of Diwakar Barve, a celebrated playwright and novelist, who has received a prestigious literary award. The party attracts the literary and cultural elite of the town, as also the fawning cognoscenti which trail in their wake. One name keeps cropping up in the course of the conversation - Amrit, a writer of immense talent and potential, once very much patronized by this set. Amrit, the powerful poet, leaves a promising literary career to join the tribal people in their struggle against exploitation. His attempt to bridge the chasm between words and deed haunts all others at the party. He is the invisible thread binding the tapestry of the film together, his enigmatic presence finally becoming more meaningful and poignant than the rest."
An officer of the alien government, a Subedar, assigned to collect taxes, arrives in the village. The moment the Subedar sets his eyes on the dusky Sonbai, a spirited beauty known for her defiant ways, he forgets all about taxes and lusts for her openly. Knowing that it is normal for a Subedar to expect gifts from a village, he shamelessly demands for Sonbai, and the spineless villagers, knowing that Sonbai’s husband is away, agree to oblige.
