Tathagata Mukherjee

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, loved for his humanist novels, finds himself at the center of a storm when he writes Pather Dabi—a fierytale of Sabyasachi, a revolutionary whose ideas electrify the youth.

‘Pinjar’ is an evocative meditation on captivity—of bodies, of spirits, of choices—unfolding through the entangled lives of five individuals and a wild bird.

An author’s life changes completely after two sisters come to work for him. Is this a sinister war of love and identity?

After losing his parents at a very tender age, Bhotbhoti was raised in a ghetto close to the Ganges by his 'daadi' (grandmother) who too has passed away. Daadi was a great story-teller and Bhotbhotis favourite story was the one about mermaids and their world that exists, or rather flourishes underwater. Bhotbhoti's belief was further strenthened when he found out, not in the distant past, a story (movie) on mermaids that floats on the televison screen, called The Mermaid Princess. His most prized possession, the dvd of the film stays in his little trunk under his chowki (bed) until he takes it out every night and puts it into his battered but not run-down collected and repaired dvd player which brings to him his Ariel (the name of the mermaid in the film). The Ganges calls out to him and while his friends (group members) are sloshed, he dives into the waters to look for his mermaid queen, but she is ever-elusive.

A reclusive yet short-tempered man, takes a stand against the inhumane treatment of the outcast Indian stray dogs. His journey leads him to confront a massive dog trafficking racket, advocating for the rights and protection of these voiceless creatures.

The plot of the film traces the journey of Suhita, as an illegal clinical trial of Human Papillomavirus leads to multiple deaths of innocent girls and women. She joins hands with her friend and colleague Kamal as well as special officer Indra, to fight against the breakout.