Movies and TvShows featuring "kolkata" theme.
A five-year-old Indian boy named Saroo gets lost and is adopted by an Australian couple. After 25 years, he becomes determined to find his lost family. With the help of Google Earth and his memories, he embarks on a search that leads him back to his hometown. Saroo is faced with the possibility of reuniting with his mother, sister, and brother.
Love Aaj Kal is a movie that tells the story of two love stories that take place in different time periods. The movie explores the concept of love and how it has changed and evolved over time. It delves into themes of friendship, breakups, and the complexities of modern love. The story is set in San Francisco, California and delves into the lives of the characters as they navigate through love and relationships.
Black Friday is a docudrama depicting the events leading up to and following the 1993 Bombay bombings. It explores the complex web of conspiracies, police informants, and religious fanaticism that culminate in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Indian history.
Parineeta is a modernized version of a novel set in 1960s Kolkata. The story revolves around a childhood love, sexual jealousy, and the barriers created by society.
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Raincoat is a drama and romance film set in Kolkata. It follows the story of a man who visits his childhood sweetheart in Kolkata and lies about his success to impress her. The film explores themes of selflessness, unrequited love, and the sacrifices we make for others. As the rain pours outside, secrets are revealed and the characters confront their past and present. It is based on a short story and showcases the characters' emotions through various objects like a raincoat, antique furniture, and a desk lamp.
The Waiting City follows a couple on a journey to Kolkata to adopt a child. They experience a culture shock and encounter various challenges while waiting for the adoption process. Along the way, they reflect on their marriage and spirituality, and discover the true meaning of love.
In 1960s Kolkata, a neglected wife forms a bond with a crazy old man in an attempt to find solace amidst her dysfunctional marriage. As she navigates the challenges of her role as a devoted wife, she becomes entangled in a web of alcoholism, tragedy, and self-destructiveness. With the city of Kolkata as a backdrop, the story explores themes of love, loss, and the consequences of societal expectations.
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we shut our laptop, shut our Bedroom door, rest our head on our pillow and sink into the familiar discomfort of being our unattractive, unaccomplished, pitiful selves. This is the allegorical “Bedroom” – our most private space where we retire to, night after night. Where we let our guards down and dare to be at our ugliest worst.
Madly Bangalee is a Bengali rock band that inspires the film’s title. They rehearse in a dowdy garage of Kolkata, owned by Bobby (Lew Hilt), who owns Bobby’s Garage. Four young boys with stardust in their eyes practise their numbers not knowing what they are really aiming at. But the garage is under threat from a South Kolkata don Baburam (Chandan Sen). One morning, an elderly man, San (Anjan Dutt), arrives from "America and Paris." Baaji, (Sumit) the drummer who is a Muslim had to drop out of school. He escapes from the trap of turning a terrorist like his older brother Sultan. He later becomes a police officer who bashes up everyone who tries to bribe him. Neon (Tanaji) plays the rhythm guitar but, sucked into the world of drugs, he disappears from the face of the earth with his guitar. Pablo, lead singer, bass guitarist and lyricist, leaves for the US and the group breaks up. Bobby dies.
Strings Of Passion is an urban commercial flick which tells the story of three men, Neel, Aman and Amit. They are young and dynamic guys who run the band "Strings of Passion" but are shadowed by the influence of drugs, broken love and bad parenting.
Calcutta Mail is a gripping thriller set in Kolkata, with an intricate plot that revolves around a series of murders at a train station. The story unfolds through a nonlinear timeline, adding to the suspense and mystery. As the investigation progresses, secrets are unveiled, including a shocking child kidnapping and the involvement of a powerful politician. The movie showcases the essence of the city and the importance of the railway station in the narrative.
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
Vasthuhara is a movie set in Kolkata during the aftermath of the 1971 revolution. It portrays the challenges faced by the refugees and their struggle for rehabilitation. The story revolves around a group of revolutionary fighters who are striving to rebuild their lives amidst chaos and hopelessness.
This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.
We follow the daily activities of Mother Teresa and her nuns, in service to the poor of India and the world. Mother Teresa attends to the basic needs of her nuns and the poor, while at the same time, balances her role as world-recognized leader. Throughout the film, we witness personal and "behind-the-scenes" events, including the blessing ceremony of a nun becoming part of Mother Teresa's "Sisters of the Poor" convent.
Logline: Struggle of 10 year old Empath Kid in a Kolkata based Narcissistic Family on the Gangaur Festival Day. Manu is a 10 year old kid whose family is occupied with their day to day activities that they don't acknowledge his birthday & make him do all the household activities even on the Gangaur Festival Day. His innocence is crushed by the manipulation of the adults in his family. Everything in this family comes before this 10 year old. The film is a look at a young intuitive child navigating in a world full of speed, technology and anxiousness, creating dysfunctional relationships in adults and teenagers.
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
'Colkatay Columbus' is a satirical film which is set in present day, modern Kolkata. Where people are busy with their own lives and struggles, which leaves them in constant need of a rescuer or a hero who will be there for them in their time of need. In Colkatay Columbus, writer and director Saurav Palodhi has shown how everyone, from the ordinary person to a legend, is in search of something. The story unfolds through an encounter of Columbus and two boys in Kolkata. When Columbus somehow lands up in Kolkata in 2016, he is surprised to see that everyone is in search of something. He is in search of roads that would lead him back home while the boys are in search for Columbus to get him to offer tips on attaining success. Columbus starts doling out suggestions to the boys but is also put off by the “competition”.
A tribute film on Bob Dylan, depicting Calcutta's affinity with Dylan through cityscape and interviews of notable Indian musicians who were inspired by him. The film also draws parallels between Dylan's body of work and the Baul tradition of Bengal.