Mousumi Saha

An arrogant millionaire falls in love with a girl who suffers from dementia.

Arundhati is a film that chronicles the life of the warrior queen of the 19th century. Her main attributes include grace, dignity and power. What happens when she is reincarnated as Mishti?

November 2012, my brother passed away from a six-month fight with cancer and all I can think of is the past. With grief grabbing at every thought all I could do is record my thoughts, in narration, a freeze-frame of my current soul and psyche. Moving from my parents to a lack of religious belief and how it feels to be alone, The Long Night became a closer look than I'm comfortable with. Looking inward isn't about always finding positive but it can be about acknowledging and finding a place for the shadow. At a length of an hour and fifteen minutes The Long Night became my first feature film. To better appreciate The Long Night the viewers will have to better understand themselves.

Dujone has the college-going Meghna (Srabanti) and Akash (Dev) falling for each other. But with Meghna`s dad being in the fish business as opposed to Dev`s industrialist dad, objections are an obvious progression. Things get murkier and gory what with Akash`s dad keeping him caged in Siliguri and Meghna`s against-romance pishi (Seema) keeping a hawk`s eye on her every move. And just when you thought you`ve seen the best of Dev`s muscle flexing and Srabanti`s desperation to meet Akash, in comes a contract killer (Arijit) employed by Akash`s dad to finish off Meghna. As all action stories should end, Dujone too reaches a fitting finale with Meghna-Akash`s love triumphing over all odds.

This is the love story of Akash (Dev) and Barsha (Koyel Mullick). Akash bumps into Barsha one night and falls in love with her at the first sight. However, she goes away without ever speaking to him. He tries to locate her, but fails. One day he visits the marriage ceremony of his mother`s friend`s daughter and finds out that the bride is Barsha herself. However, they spend more and more time and Barsha falls in love with him, too. The rest is how Barsha and Dev finally re-unite despite her wedding just round the corner.

Illness threatens young love.

Binodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend. The book, Binodini, is the story of a young woman, who is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies soon after they are married. She returns to her village and lives there for a couple of months until she sees one of her relations passing by there on her way to somewhere else. Binodini hails the woman and the two soon agree that it would be best if Binodini came to live with the woman and her son, Mahendra (who, by the way, was one of the first to see Binodini's photo when she was unwed and up for grabs yet refused her on account of his being "unready for marriage"). Now, when the two arrive the woman's son and his new bride are in the throes of passion, constantly sneaking off to be alone together; this infatuation does not last long, however, when Mahendra begins to see that his wife's friend, Binodini, is more his type. The story details the lives of these three and Mahendra's best friend as they deal with certain issues as distrust, adultery, lies, and numerous fallings-out between them. The movie correctly depicts what Tagore so skillfully wrote and is a sad, stirring tale of the deceit and sorrow that come from being unsatisfied and unhappy. —gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com) Mahendra is a doctor circa British rule in India, who lives a comfortable life in a city in Bengal (India). He is friendly with a young man, a bachelor named Behari. Both Mahendra and Behari are of marriage age, and do get a lot of proposals. One day they receive a proposal of a young woman named Binodini along with a photograph. Neither of them shows any interest nor even take a look at the photograph. They get news that Binodini has got married. Shortly thereafter, they receive another proposal without a photograph, for a young woman named Ashalata. Behari is asked to check her out for Mahendra - he ends up consenting to marry her, but subsequently let's Mahendra be the groom. A few months later Ashalata gets pregnant, and the family gets the news that Binodini has been widowed only after a year's marriage. Then things get complicated when Ashalata befriends Binodini - and both Mahendra and Behari get attracted to her - so much so that Mahendra is considering separating from his bride - and Behari separating from his bachelorhood - but both in quandary over the social taboo of marrying a widow - and of the present agitation aimed against the British to quit India. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)