Commercially the most successful film in Ray’s career, ABHIJAN gives the famous Ray flavour in its composition, story flow, dialogues and use of symbols.
The protagonist Narsingh was a direct influence for the character of the cynical cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). Scorsese termed his film TAXI DRIVER – a tribute to ABHIJAN.
Our ABHIJAN, set in 2022 Mumbai is our tribute to the great master of Indian Cinema to commemorate his 100-years
Films On Development
Partition of the Indian subcontinent into 3 different countries was a bloody affair. Approximately 20-million people overnight turned into ‘Refugees’. It is story of unimaginable amount misery, despire, hunger and gruesome genocides.
One such tale is that of the group of lower caste Hindu refugees from Bangladesh.
MARICHJHAPI (BLOOD ISLAND) is a film on such a massacre of more than 12,000 lower caste Hindu refugees from Bangladesh in one fateful night of 1979, at the Marichjhapi island situated at the confluence of river Ganges and Bay of Bengal
In search of the convergence of European musical symphony and Indian Vedic Music a Portuguese family came to India in the early 19th century, with a business contingent who started doing business in India since 18th century. Epicentre of European business was Kolkata or Calcutta, in the eastern coast of India, on the Bay of Bengal sea. They came with a Red Violin which epitomises the convergence. Coming to India, the elder son of the family Anthony discovered his divine solace in Bengali literature, poetry, Bengali and Vedic music and goddess Kali. He also got into a relationship with a notch girl who used to be a celebrity classical singer too. His passion and devotion for literature, poetry, goddess Kali and the girl - earned him a lot of enmity with the upper caste of the society. At the end, a catastrophe of hate and bigotry struck him. His beloved lover burnt alive.
A Bengali family from Kolkata reunite after 3-decades in the city of New York. A true roller-coaster ride film tracks down the emotional and cultural evolution in the middle-class Indian mind and life.
Biopic of Bharat Ratna MS Subbulakshmi.
A life of a rebel - A life of a divine soul - A life of a goddess!