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Anil Chatterjee
Actor 1929 - 1996

Anil Chatterjee

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Anil Chatterjee (Bengali: অনিল চ্যাটার্জী) was an Indian actor in the Bengali cinema during the early fifties through the mid-nineties and is mostly remembered as a character actor. He acted or performed in about 150 movies, including a few in Hindi.

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8 titles
Ek Din Achanak

Ek Din Achanak

Mrinal Sen 1989 1h 42m

A retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.

Mahanagar

Mahanagar

Satyajit Ray 1963 2h 16m 9.0

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

Kanchenjungha

Kanchenjungha

Satyajit Ray 1962 1h 42m

Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society in transition.

Teen Kanya

Teen Kanya

Satyajit Ray 1961 2h 53m 10.0

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 tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her.

Komal Gandhar

Komal Gandhar

Ritwik Ghatak 1961 2h 4m

Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Ritwik Ghatak 1960 2h 7m 9.0

A film about a daughter of a refugee family and her tregic story "meghe daka tara"

Devi

Devi

Satyajit Ray 1960 1h 39m 8.0

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.

Ajantrik

Ajantrik

Ritwik Ghatak 1958 1h 42m

Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.

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