Top 10 Bengali Films Which Explore Mental Health

Bengali films have been creating several genres of films. One such is showing mental health. These films have the story and brilliant acting skills to portray mental illness. Here is a list of Bengali films that explore mental health.

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 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. Baishe Srabon

The film Baishe Srabon is about many murders. It happens in Kolkata. Everyone thinks that a serial killer does this. Now the police are also confused. Here the characters are an ex-DCP named Probir, who was fired because he used the wrong practice of beating the criminals and using bad words; ACP Abhijit Pakrashi, in charge of solving the case; Amrita, Probir’s wife, and a TV Journalist and Surjo, Amrita’s co-worker. Probir and Pakrashi try to solve the case by investigation. Amrita and Surjo do research on serial killers for a TV show. A mad poet named Nibaron Chakraborty roams the streets of Kolkata at night. He reads poems. Everyone thinks that he is the killer. All the killings are on the death date of famous Bengali poets. All the police congratulate Probir. They tell the matter to be solved. But they find out that he commits suicide on the death date of a Bengali poet. Probir says that he is the actual killer. Now he wants to kill himself.

3. Dwitiyo Purush

The film Dwitiyo Purush is the continuation of the film Baishe Srabon. Abhijit Pakrashi is now DCDD. He has PTSD because he saw Probir Roy killing himself. Currently he is investigating a case given by Commissioner Dibakar Bose. He is asked to get hold of Khoka. Khoka is a criminal. He was released from prison last month. He killed Haroo. Haroo is the team leader of his rival gang. Rajat Chakraborty is another investigator. He also joins Abhijit. They solve the case. Later it is found that Abhijit was a criminal when he was young. He was suffering from Amnesia. Then a police commissioner adopts him to make him a good man. And in jail, he was replaced by Khoka. Now Khoka wants revenge.

4. X=Prem

The film X=Prem is a love story of three people. Khilat is a corporate worker. He has a brilliant mind. He works for an international company. He went on a road trip with his fiancée, Joyee. They meet with an accident. Now he is suffering from Retrograde Amnesia. He lost his memory of his last ten years. Joyee takes him to Dr. Kaufman. He says that there is an experiment that can implant the memory of one person into another. Now they set out to find a suitable match. They find Arnab. He had a secret crush on Joyee since college time. They meet him to ask for his brain memory to implant in Khilat.

5. Hemlock Society

The film Hemlock Society is about suicide. It shows mental health. It shows funny incidents to bring the fear of death. It can stop people from committing suicide. Meghna is the main character of the film. She is unhappy in her personal and work life. Her father has an extramarital affair. Her fiancé rejects her. She is facing several problems. She decides to commit suicide. She is saved by Ananda Kar. He founded the Hemlock Society. He teaches how to commit suicide effectively in a satirical way. He brings out the fear of death in people. Finally saves them and teaches them life values.

6. Generation Ami

The film Generation Ami shows the generation gap. It shows how this difference can affect our mental health. Apu is a teenager. His parents are stringent. He wants to sing. But his parents do not allow him to do so. They are overprotective towards him. On the other side, his cousin sister, Durga, has opposite life. Her parents neglect her. She is having problems in her relationship. She is very energetic. She supports her brother. She cannot bear her problems. At last, she commits suicide.

7. Deep Jwele Jai

The film Deep Jwele Jai is about a nurse. She works at a psychiatric hospital. She starts new therapy to treat her patients. She is emotional. She treats her patients with love. She behaves like a friend to everyone. But she suffers because she has to break her emotional attachment to everybody she makes friends with. The film shows the emotional trauma of the nurses. Now with this work, she becomes mentally. Now she is admitted to the same hospital. She once fell in love with her patient. Every time her emotions are real. She was not acting with the patients as a nurse.

8. 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.

9. Vinci Da

The film Vinci Da is about making prosthetics. Vinci Da learned this art from his father. No one respects his true talent. On another side, Adi is a teenage boy. He is good at studies. He is interested in law. His father beats his mother. He is frustrated. Then he kills his father. He becomes mentally affected. He is sent to a mental asylum. Now when he grows up, he meets Vinci Da. With his help, he wants to demolish all crimes. He does this anyhow. Even if this takes him to lead to another crime, he is a psychopath.

10. Bela Shuru

The film Bela Shuru is the continuation of the film Bela Sheshe. It is after five years. Now Arati has Alzheimer’s disease. She cannot recognize anybody except her children. She forgets about her married life. Now Biswanath takes her to Santiniketan. He wants to take care of her. He does not want his children or any nurse to care for her. She also thinks her husband left her because she cannot remember anything. She suddenly moves out of the house alone frequently, which nobody knows about. Later everyone plans to enact their marriage. They come together.