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CBFF2020 MOVIES
Mitin Mashi is an Indian Bengali detective film based on the Hate Matro Tintey Din, a story by the novelist Suchitra Bhattacharya. Pragya Paromita, fondly called Mitin, is appointed by a Parsi couple to investigate their eight-year-old son's kidnapping. Mitin has done economics from Presidency and balances her detective and homemaker lives equally well. She is fiercely independent, dignified, courageous and has a keen eye and a sharp analytical mind. A lot of questions, and the answers to all create the crux of the movie.
DIRECTION
Arindam Sil
CAST
Koel Mallick, Vinay Pathak, June Malia
An anthology film of four short stories, each story bringing out a distinct color of money through the changes in relationships among the characters inhabiting them. 'Colors of Money' reflects human feelings - love; separation; profit; loss - these are the four emotions that weave together four tales through the common thread of money..
DIRECTION
Ranjan Ghosh
CAST
Rituparna Sengupta, Ritwick Chakraborty, Rwitobroto Mukherjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty, Arunima Ghosh, Arjun Chakrabarty
The story is of three friends from school who meet up after about 18 years. One of them is a successful businessman, the other runs his in laws business and third one is a writer with a writers block. They embark on a journey to the unknown. The writer asks old friends to help. They are uncomfortable and worried - Disturbed. Can they help him finish his story or do they end up being part of a bigger narrative unknowingly?
DIRECTION
Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy
CAST
Ritwick Chakraborty, Sudiptaa Chakraborty, Rahul Banerjee, Tanushree Chakraborty, Indrajit Chakravarty
Stress, long working hours, hectic schedules have made the lives of Indian youth a little disoriented. The story revolves around the life of an unmarried couple who live together to find happiness and contentment from their relationship. However, as we get to know every chapter of their lives we realize that they are troubled with individual commitments, deception, arguments originating due to generation gap between parent and the child and between the couple and a hidden mystery that brings them together. It is the story of that insecure individual we all hide in ourselves.
DIRECTION
Anjan Kanjilal
CAST
Anubhav, Isha Saha, Saayoni Ghosh, Rahul Banerjee, Debolina Dutta, Bratya Basu, Subhasish Mukherjee, Biswajit Chakraborty
This film is partially inspired by the first volume of renowned Bengali author Sarat Chandra Chattapadhyay's seminal novel Srikanto. On an idyllic retreat sponsored by an influential friend, Srikanto, the drifter-protagonist, comes across the beautiful Rajlokhi, his friend's mistress. He is a man who has battled complex psychological issues after being subject to a traumatic incident as a child; she is a woman who has been betrayed by and exploited repeatedly by men like her father and her husband. Part love story, part character study of protagonists who wish to break free of the expectations of society, Rajlokhi O Srikanto is a searing study of how ideas of love, masculinity and violence have always been incredibly entangled across generations.
DIRECTION
Pradipta Bhattacharyya
CAST
Ritwick Chakraborty, Rahul Banerjee, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Jyotika Jyoti
Aami Joy Chatterjee is the journey of a ruthless, self-centered and egoistic businessman Joy, whose definition of life and its situations is described by the all important 'I' , 'me' and 'myself'. One fine day, life throws him a googly and Joy Chatterjee goes missing - This is the journey of a man who realizes that the 'I' or 'Aami' is transient which fades out of being. Jaya Ahasan plays a pediatrician and his fiance and Shataf Figar plays an ACP investigating a bizarre case.
DIRECTION
Manoj Michigan
CAST
Abir Chatterjee, Jaya Ahsan. Sabyasachi Chakraborty
A medical student has to drop out of college due to unfortunate circumstances and starts running a sweet shop. However, his boring life encounters a sudden twist when he claims to have discovered the formula for a pill that can make people happy.
DIRECTION
Mainak Bhaumik
CAST
Ritwick Chakraborty, Parno Mittra, Sohini Sarkar