Top 10 Bengali Art Films

Bengali films have been creating several plots to explore human emotions. Art films are films that are not of the regular type. They target a niche market. They are not like mainstream films. They focus on details. Here is the list of Bengali art films.

1. Nirbaak

The film Nirbaak is about the forms of love. It has four stories. Here, the four main characters are a human, a tree, a dog, and a dead body. Love is shown based on their lives. First, Anjan Dutt Anjan Dutt is an Indian film director, actor, sing >> Read More... is a narcist. He loves himself very much. He enjoys his own company. He also has multiple personality disorders. He is has schizophrenia. He is shown creating problems. Second, a tree in Calcutta. It witnesses other people’s love under it. Third, Sushmita Sen What is the essence of being a woman? her winning >> Read More... and her boyfriend Jisshu Sengupta Jisshu Sengupta is an artist who is known for his >> Read More... , have a complicated relationship. His dog Bingi is jealous of them, as he loves him. Last, a man from the morgue named Ritwick Chakraborty Ritwick Chakraborty is an Indian actor. He works i >> Read More... develops an obsession with Sushmita's body. She is a dead woman in that morgue. The film’s art shows the stages of love.

2. Bisorjon

The film Bisorjon is about Padma. She is a Hindu mother from Bangladesh. She stops her son to see Durga Bishorjon. Bengal got divided because of the border conflicts between East Pakistan and West Bengal during the partition of India. In the past, a Muslim West Bengali man Naseer drowned in the river. Padma saves him. She is a widow. She lives with her ill father-in-law. She is destitute. To protect him from getting caught by Bangladesh’s security, they say Naseer is her cousin. She treats her and allows him to stay in her home. He tells her about his life. They become attracted to each other. Ganesh is a rich zamindar. He wants to marry her. In exchange, he would help Naseer safely go to India. Now she marries Ganesh. At last, it is shown that her son is Naseers's, as they both have the same birthmark.

3. Chotuskone

The film Chotuskone is about the art of investigation. A woman writes a suicide. Then she hangs herself from a ceiling fan. The plot centers on Trina and Dipto, who are attending a party. On Henry's island of Bakkhali, Joy, her ex-lover Dipto, and Shakyo talk about screenplay and death. Shakyo tells a story of a TV serial director who kills everyone for his serial. Dipto dies. He is a smoker and was hit by a car. Trina and Joy talk about his death. They also talk about a dead woman. She can speak with the ghosts of living people. Joy tells about his brother, whose wife left him. Now he became mad. But Joy has another plan. He makes Trina kill others. But she instead kills him. Ultimately, Trina and Dipto meet Joy's brother in a mental hospital. He cannot recognize them.

4. Chitrangada The Crowning Wish

The film Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish is about a love life. Rudra Chatterjee becomes a performer of Tagore's Chitrangada as a percussionist. He did this against his father’s wish. He is in love with the choreographer. They want to adopt a child together. They face many problems from their family and society. But this is not allowed for same-sex couples. Rudra goes for surgery. He changes his gender to female. Lastly, she says, ‘Be what you wish to be’.

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The film Memories in March shows the art of living after the death of close ones. Arati Mishra is a woman who lives in Delhi. She gets the news that her son Siddhartha died in a car accident. He is a young boy. He lives in Kolkata. When she comes to Kolkata, Sahana Choudhury helps her. She is a coworker of her son. He died because he was driving after drinking alcohol. She goes to his office. She wants his belongings back. The boss does not allow her to take them. She accuses his boss of seducing him. But she later comes to know that he loves him. They were in a same-sex relationship.

6. Arekti Premer Golpo

The film Arekti Premer Golpo is about the art of bisexual relationships. Abhiroop Sen makes documentary films. He comes to Kolkata with his bisexual lover, Indranil, to make a film. Chapal Bhaduri India's last and most famous female impersonat >> Read More... , known as Chapal Rani, was a famous Jatra actor. They want to make a documentary film about him. He acted as a female when real females were prohibited on the stage. Abhiroop is transgender. She faces many problems in making the film. Indranil is married to Rani. But Abhiroop and Indranil become intimate. The film shows the problems faced by transgender people in leading a regular life.

7. Praktan

The film Praktan is about the art of the past and letting go. Ujaan Mukherjee is a tourist guide. Sudipa is an architect and a tourist. They fall in love while roaming Kolkata. They may. But they face many problems in their marriage. This happens because of their career and personal wishes. They cannot adjust. Then they split up. Later, after several years she is traveling by train. Malini and her daughter Putul are her co-passenger. She comes to know that she is now her ex-husband’s present wife. Both women explore themselves. They speak and gets to know their life difference and preference. Later Ujaan joins them on the train.

8. Dristikon

The film Dristikon is about an extramarital affair. Jion Mitra is a married man. He is a lawyer. He takes the case of Srimoti’s husband, Polash. He died accidentally by his elder brother, Pritom. He was innocent. He did not kill him intentionally. Rumki is Jion’s wife. Now, Rumki, join and Srimoti go on a Puri trip together. There, she develops feelings for him. Later it is found that Pritom was faking his paralysis. He is responsible for her husband’s death. Now she says that she fell in love with her lawyer because his eyes were her husband’s eye, which was donated to him after his death. She found a part of her husband in him.

9. Hami

The film Hami shows the art of child-bringing. Bhutu Biswas is Laltu and Mitali Biswas’s son. He gets admitted to an English medium school in Kolkata. There, he becomes best friends with Chini. Bhutu belongs to a typical Bengali family, and Chini to a posh family. He loves her. But Chini’s parents see this as being wrong. The parents separate her from him. But now he puts sindoor on her. Now both the children’s parents are called. But everyone sees that both friends have an innocent bond.

10. Sobdo

The film Sobdo is about the artist Tarak Dutta. He cannot control his language due to his love for his craft. His wife takes him to a psychiatrist for therapy. Now he finds that he is deaf. He listens to outside noises and voices but fails in medical involvement. He listens to nature's sounds. He is on vacation in Siliguri. He does not want to go to therapy. Now he lost his job. He becomes depressed. He is sent to a rehabilitation center. There he hears recorded human sounds every day to become normal. But at last, he commits suicide.