Apur Sansar (1959) is Satyajit Ray’s conclusion to the Apu Trilogy that takes a Calcutta writer through an accidental marriage, his wife’s death in childbirth and the years he spends away from his son, and ends with a return that it refuses to call a redemption.
The second film of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy follows a Brahmin boy from the ghats of Varanasi to a Calcutta printing press, tracing the cost his education exacts on the mother he leaves behind.
15 Park Avenue (2005) is Aparna Sen’s English-language film about a young woman with schizophrenia who inhabits a private reality centered on a home and family that don’t exist, and the older half-sister who devotedly cares for her, a compassionate exploration of mental illness, perception, and the boundaries of what we call real.
Tamas (1988) is a made for television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. Based on a Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is set in the backdrop of a small town in the now Pakistani Punjab during the partition of India in 1947.
Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002), also released as A Tale of a Naughty Girl, is a Bengali drama by Buddhadev Dasgupta about a fourteen-year-old girl who defies her mother’s plan to sell her into prostitution in favour of returning to school.