Evergreen Bengali Movies

      

We are talking about evergreen Bengali movies and how is it possible that we don’t take the names of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen. Here I will name a few movies which not only Bengalis, every other person should watch. They portray such a flavor of realistic facts and hidden sparks of daily life, you just can’t not call them “evergreen”. They will make you laugh, make you cry, make you feel how hard it is to lead a ‘life’.

So here’s a list of some evergreen Bengali movies you should definitely not miss:

Nayak:The Hero(1966), The Music Room(1958)/Jalshaghar, Charulata(1964), The Cloud-capped Star(1960)/ Meghe Dhaka Tara, Pather Panchali(1955), The Big City(1963)/Mahanagar, Subarnarekha(1965), Saptapadi(1961), Aparajito(1956), Kony(1984), The Goddess(1960)/Debi, Heerak Rajar Deshe(1980), Kabuliwala(1957), Apur Sansar(1959), Aranyer Din Ratri(1970), Ashani Sanket(1973), Harano Sur(1957), Teen Kanya(1961), Ajantrik(1958),  and this list will go on and on. These movies are less popular and many people don’t know about them. I would like to tell the whole new generation to watch these evergreen Bengali movies as they can easily make you feel how our past was. It is often said that the tree is strong when its roots are strong, that’s exactly what I want to emphasize about. It’s necessary for us to know our culture, our ancestry. What a Bengali you are if you don’t know who Uttam Kumar, Soumitro Chattopadhyay, Suchitra Sen, Supriya Devi, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Jauhar were and what jewels are there hidden in the pandora’s box of history of Bengali movies.

I will add some more names which are from 2000’s but unlike many others they have proved to be great pieces of art and inscribed their names in evergreen Bengali movie list. Such a few names are: The Festival(2000)/Utsab, Kalpurush(2005), Noukadubi(2011), Moner Manush(2010), Autograph(2010), Chokher Bali(2003), Shabdo(2012), Abohoman(2009), Praktan(2016), Belaseshe(2015), Shubho Mahurat(2003), House of Memories(2000)/ Paromitar Ekdin, Icche(2011), and a few more. If we talk about 2000s, the name we can’t forget is Late Director-Actor  Rituparno Ghosh. Also nowadays there are a few promising directors in Bengali cinema who are working very hard to brighten the image of Bengali movies in the arena of worldwide movies and we can take a few names of generation Y Bengali directors such as Srijit Mukherji, Koushik Bandopadhyay, Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Mainak Bhaumik, Shiboprasad and Nandita. We as spectators are eagerly waiting to witness this evolution of Bengali cinema and resurrection of lost respect towards Bengali cinema and definitely that will be a boon to all language movie fanatics.

Considering historical context, don’t be surprised if someone tells you that Bengali filmmakers have given us a lot of great artistic and qualitative films, something which is a great rarity today when easy entertainment is taking the place of meaningful cinema and art and people are getting engrossed in those meaningless display of human emotions. If you are really a critic of good art, these are few movies you can’t miss.