FILM WORK
THE PUPPET'S TALE
Drama | 120 MINS | 2025
Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short stay threatens to become permanent.
Starring
Abir Chatterjee, Jaya Ahsan, Dhritiman Chatterjee
International Film Festival of Rotterdam Big Screen Competition
2025
Kazan International Film Festival
Award for Humanism in Cinema Arts
2025
Official Selection
Filmkunstfest, Germany
2025
CAPTIVE
Drama | 85m | 2019
After five years in prison, Vasanti steps into a transformed Kolkata to find her family gone and her home erased. Joined by Chandu, a petty conman with dubious motives, she embarks on a desperate journey through the city’s underbelly — a chaotic odyssey of loss, longing, and unexpected tenderness.
Starring
Tanmay Dhanania, Indira Tiwari
Busan International Film Festival
Official Selection
2020
Audience Award
River to River, Florence
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2020
Official Selection
London Indian Film Festival
New York Indian Film Festival
Asian Film Festival, Barcelona
2021
Female Filmmakers' Festival, Berlin
Kali Film Award for Best Film
2020
Filmfare Awards
Nominee - Best Film
2020
INCOMPLETE
Drama | 12O mins | 2017
In the mountains, a man seeking his lost childhood finds himself entangled in the fractured marriage of his hosts and the rekindled presence of a former lover, forcing him to confront his fears, his past, and the meaning of love itself.
Starring
Ritwick Chakraborty, Swastika Mukherjee, Bratya Basu, Paoli Dam
Indian Film Festival of
Los Angeles
Official Selection
2017
Indian Film Festival of
Melbourne
Official Selection
2017
Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival
Best Director, Best Actor
2017
THE LAST POEM
Drama | 85m | 2019
Oxford-educated barrister Amit Ray’s virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya at a car accident and a romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong.
Starring
Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Swastika Mukherjee
Dubai International Film Festival
Official Selection
2013
New York Indian Film Festival
Official Selection
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2013
METROPOLIS@KOLKATA
Drama | 96m | 2009
The cinematographic idea of the film is 'PHOBIA' and 'VIGOR' in a contemporary Indian metropolis like Kolkata. This city and its people are reeling under the contradiction of rapid global developments and innate prejudices of the 'old world.'
Starring
Anjan Dutt, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra
Munich International Film Festival
Official Selection
2009
Kerala International Film Festival
2009
FOUR CHAPTERS
Drama | 125m | 2008
Set in colonial Bengal, Chaturanga follows Sachish, a man torn between reason and faith, whose pursuit of idealism destroys the two women who love him—a widow and a forsaken woman—revealing the tragic cruelty of his moral and spiritual delusions.
Starring
Rituparna Sengupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Joy Sengupta, Subrat Dutt, Kabir Suman
Montreal International Film Festival
Competition
2008
San Francisco International Film Festival
2009
GRAND PRIX
Bridge Fest, Sarajevo
2009
National Award
Silver Lotus
Best Bengali Film
2006
Dhaka International Film Festival
Audience Award
2007
ContemporAsian
Exhibition
MoMA, New York
Official Selection
2007