Movies: Jayanto Chattopadhyay

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

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....

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

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...

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

A lone gun-man enters a typical Bangladeshi town to find his identity and take revenge on the person who raped his mother during the war. In the course of revenge he is used by the internal clash of two rival leaders of the town....

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...

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

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

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...

The film 'Tungiparar Miya Bhai' about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the Bengali nation of all time....

During the independence war of Bangladesh in 1971, a father who lives in village, decides to stay back at home to help all the family members to escape to safety. The Pakistani army has headed towards their home for a sudden reason , will the father ...

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,...

‘Nona Pani- Barren Waters’ is a story of people who do not have a tale worth telling—at least by themselves. Affected by the impact of climate change such as Cyclone Aila, the trauma of internal migration and dislocation, change of profession, silent...

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...

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

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

A political fable in which a village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka....

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....