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Soumik Haldar

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A renowned cinematographer in the Indian Bengali film industry, Soumik Haldar (born June 1) had been intrigued by movies and the art of filmmaking ever since he was in school. Making his debut into the film industry, Soumik was associated with the 2003 Bengali action drama Raasta, following which he went on to be a part of movies like Cross Connection, Akerti Premer Golpo, Ami Aadu, Baishe Srabon, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Mishawr Rawhoshyo, Obhishopto Nighty, Chotoder Chobi, Amazon Obhijaan, Mayurakshi and Asche Abar Shabor (2018). His other releases include Total Dadagiri (2018), Uma (2018), Uronchondi (2018), Villain (2018) and Durgeshgorer Guptodhon (2019), Gumnaami (2019), Professor Shanku O El Dorado (2019), Nirontor, Dwitiyo Purush, 72 Ghanta and Hatyapuri. His 2023 releases include Bibaho Obhijaan 2 which is his 84th film.

31-05-1965

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Binodiini - Ekti Natir Upakhyan

Binodiini - Ekti Natir Upakhyan

Binodini Dasi, a prostitute, who has a knack for theatre, manages to garner a lot of attention because of her performances.
0.0

Year:

2025

Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen

Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen

Documentary on Aparna Sen's life.
0.0

Year:

2025

Hubba

Hubba

The notorious Bimal Mandal, who ruled the Rishra-Hindmotor-Konnagar area for years, gets arrested by Dibakar Sen. However, he gets away due to lack of evidence. Soon, Dibakar and Hubba, seem to become alter egos of one another and morality gets blurred.
10.0

Year:

2024

Ballabhpurer Roopkotha

Ballabhpurer Roopkotha

The almost crumbling Rajbari of Ballabhpur only has two men living — the last descendant of Ray dynasty, Bhupati Ray, and his inherited menial, Manohar. Both the dwellers are overburdened with heavy debts and seek no hope of betterment until one day, Kolkata's soap King, Mr. Haldar, plans buying the property. Can Bhupati Ray and Manohar succeed in selling it?
8.7

Year:

2022

Dharmajuddha

Dharmajuddha

The small town of Ismailpur suffers an apocalyptic night when a sudden riot breaks out and the town descends into anarchy. Four victims of the riots, rival to each other, take shelter in an old woman`s home. As the woman awaits her son`s arrival, conflicts break out between the four members, leading to a fateful night that none of them will forget.
0.0

Year:

2022

Kakababur Protyaborton

Kakababur Protyaborton

A famous hotel in Nairobi is about to close. People don't go to that hotel like before. Kakababu and Santu go to the hotel to find out the reason. Based on Jongoler Modhye Ek Hotel.
4.1

Year:

2022

Golondaaj

Golondaaj

Based on true events, Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, "The Father of Indian Football", was the first Indian to play the sport and open a professional football club in the country.
5.0

Year:

2021

Searching for Happiness...

Searching for Happiness...

A four year old girl's search for "Happiness" on the streets of Kolkata
0.0

Year:

2021

Professor Shanku O El Dorado

Professor Shanku O El Dorado

Based on Satyajit Rayʼs iconic character, this film portrays the story of Trilokeshwar Shanku - a respected scientist and inventor who travels to Brazil for a science convention. But once he`s there Shanku gets involved in an adventure, a quest for the mythical city of El Dorado. Through the journey, he encounters native tribesmen and anacondas, but will Shanku and his friends ever find El Dorado?
6.0

Year:

2019

Nirontor

Nirontor

Travelling from the big city, Biplab Sen, a middle-aged civil engineer, and his young project assistant Bhaskar Mitra, have been assigned the responsibility of hunting a location for a new resort in an exotic, remote mountain range. With barely any phone network in the places they travel to, the two men with vastly different personalities develop a new-found friendship.
9.0

Year:

2019

Durgeshgorer Guptodhon

Durgeshgorer Guptodhon

Prof. Subarna Sen along with Abir and Jhinuk, visits his student's ancestral mansion in Durgeshgor. Once there, the trio comes across a vital clue that could lead them to one of the greatest treasures in Bengal's history.
7.3

Year:

2019

Adventures of Jojo

Adventures of Jojo

Jojo, a twelve year old boy, and his friend Shibu try to save a famed animal and the forest from poachers, while they travels to Baropahari to visit his uncle.
0.0

Year:

2018

Ek Je Chhilo Raja

Ek Je Chhilo Raja

Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people’s curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.
7.3

Year:

2018

Aschhe Abar Shabor

Aschhe Abar Shabor

This movie is a mystery about continuous murders at Kolkata and Chandan Nagar.
3.7

Year:

2018

Mayurakshi

Mayurakshi

When a middle-aged divorcee returns to Kolkata to visit his ailing father, long-buried memories resurface, bringing new discoveries with them.
6.8

Year:

2017

Zulfiqar

Zulfiqar

A modern day adaptation of two of William Shakespeare's tragedies - Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.
4.4

Year:

2016

Dhoomketu

Dhoomketu

Megh is a married person, who works as manager of a tea estate in North Sikkim. In a certain crisis he became jobless and struggles to make ends problems of his life because there are not many options for livelihood around in the hills. He fights to bring back joy into his family's life.
0.0

Year:

2016

Har Har Byomkesh

Har Har Byomkesh

Famed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to celebrate his recovery from a long illness.
6.3

Year:

2015

Har Har Byomkesh

Har Har Byomkesh

Famed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to celebrate his recovery from a long illness.
6.3

Year:

2015

A Short Story

A Short Story

Focusing on the predicaments of those born with genetic defect causing dwarfism, the film is the love story between Khoka and Soma.
8.0

Year:

2015

Jeevan Smriti

Jeevan Smriti

A cinematic journey that sees Rabindranath Tagore as an ever restless seeker. It brings Tagore alive as a flesh and blood person whom the average Indian can relate to as a man of all seasons, of all times.
0.0

Year:

2013

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Nilkantha, an artist, is admitted in a mental asylum but even while undergoing treatment, he manages to write a play.
4.9

Year:

2013

Pokkhirajer Dim

Pokkhirajer Dim

Egg of a magical bird.
0.0

Year:

-

Athhoi

Athhoi

A contemporary retelling of William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy Othello, exploring the intricacies of human emotions and the consequences of unchecked manipulation, all within a Bengali context.
0.0

Year:

2024

Oti Uttam

Oti Uttam

The film narrates the story of a PhD scholar, who is pursuing his research on Uttam Kumar. After being rejected by the girl he likes romantically, he decides to bring the spirit of the legendary actor back with the help of his grandson.
0.0

Year:

2024

Sada Ronger Prithibi

Sada Ronger Prithibi

Sada Ronger Prithibi explores the colorless world of widows in Varanasi when a young police officer comes to investigate the shelter. Will she be able to overcome the political pressures and other threats in her attempt to fight the evil lurking?
0.0

Year:

2024

Dawshom Awbotaar

Dawshom Awbotaar

What happens when a serial killer terrorizes the city of Kolkata by mirroring the mythological stories of Vishnu and his ten avatars in his killing methods? A prequel crossover of Baishe Srabon and Vinci Da.
6.5

Year:

2023

Abar Bibaho Obhijaan

Abar Bibaho Obhijaan

On being released from jails, Bullet Singh meets Anupam and Rajat to inform him that a fellow prisoner has gifted him a Rs. 100 crores worth Hotel, which he wants to share with them. They soon realize it's a trap. Can they get out of it?
5.0

Year:

2023

Karnasubarner Guptodhon

Karnasubarner Guptodhon

Sona Da, Abir and Jhinuk come across a riddle that turns their vacation into a dangerous quest for the hidden treasure of King Shashanka, one of the best-kept secrets of Bengal.
7.5

Year:

2022

Byomkesh Hotyamancha

Byomkesh Hotyamancha

Set in the tumultuous Naxalite uprising in Bengal in 1971, Byomkesh Bakshi gets involved in a story of vengeance when he decides to attend a play at the theatre and becomes witness to a crime unfolding on the center stage. As Byomkesh digs deep into the case, it opens him to a tripartite story of love, betrayal, and infidelity. And how the mystery is laid bare for Byomkesh to solve.
6.0

Year:

2022

72 HOURS

72 HOURS

An old man commits suicide by jumping before a running train. In the next 72 hours, six stories unfold one after another. Curiously interlinked, each story is born out of a chance encounter between two strangers leading to a high voltage drama with a strange twist at the end.
0.0

Year:

2021

Gumnaami

Gumnaami

Gumnaami is a film based on the Mukherjee Commission Hearings which happened from 1999 to 2005 where the three theories about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death were discussed and debated. It is a dramatization of the hearings where an investigative journalist supporting the Gumnaami Baba theory locks horns with the official lawyer who supports the plane crash theory. In their clash, the Death in Russia theory also comes up.
7.8

Year:

2019

Ghawre Bairey Aaj

Ghawre Bairey Aaj

Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.
6.3

Year:

2019

Uronchondi

Uronchondi

Uronchondi is a film about the dream, desires and emotions of three women.
3.0

Year:

2018

Ahare Mon

Ahare Mon

A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall in love.
6.0

Year:

2018

Guptodhoner Sondhane

Guptodhoner Sondhane

Subarna Sen, an Oxford University professor, travels to India after the death of his maternal uncle. He learns that his uncle's palace has a hidden treasure and decides to find it.
6.6

Year:

2018

Total Dadagiri

Total Dadagiri

College students Joy and Jonaki fall in love with each other, much to the distress of her father, who is totally opposed to their relationship.
10.0

Year:

2018

Amazon Obhijaan

Amazon Obhijaan

Anna, an Italian woman, approaches Shankar, an explorer, to accompany her in search of the golden city of El Dorado. He accepts the offer and sets out on an adventure through the Amazon.
5.5

Year:

2017

The Yeti Adventure

The Yeti Adventure

Kakababu and Sontu will unravel the mystery of the legendary beast, the Yeti (Snowman) in this film. Gorokhshep plateau is the new destination where the uncle-nephew duo will be facing harsh circumstances in the process of unravelling the actual truth behind the attacks by the giant beast. The quest introduces them to new characters such as Mingma and Norbu, local sherpas, who help them in the expedition. Their adventure leads them to discovering the mystery of the Yeti.
4.8

Year:

2017

Dhananjoy

Dhananjoy

A security guard Dhananjoy stands accused of the gruesome murder of Hema Parekh, which took place in the year 1990.
7.1

Year:

2017

Eagoler Chokh

Eagoler Chokh

Nandini's murder at entrepreneur Bishan Roy's place lands police detective Shabor in a world of psychological game-play.
7.8

Year:

2016

Khawto

Khawto

A young couple meet a mysterious man who, in the course of conversation, covers Japanese cuisine, Bengali literature, and his own checkered past.
6.0

Year:

2016

Cinemawala

Cinemawala

An old film exhibitor struggles to keep his cinema from being demolished. Meanwhile, his relationship with his immoral son deteriorates.
7.5

Year:

2016

Anubrata Bhalo Acho?

Anubrata Bhalo Acho?

To live a life is a challenge. Just to live, eat, drink and die without any sense of purpose is the reason for which we are born? Without really creating any value in life? Then suddenly a moment comes when Death knocks at the door. Its uncompromising, we all have to face it someday. We cling to this idea of "someday", expecting it to be far off in the future. But reality of life is that it may come to an end at any moment. Death creeps up on us from behind. But are we prepared enough to greet Death with open arms and a broad smile?
10.0

Year:

2015

Nirbaak

Nirbaak

Nirbaak is a hyperlink narrative comprising four love stories connected by a single woman. Every love story comprises one entity which is silent and thus Nirbaak (Speechless)
6.0

Year:

2015

Ek Phaali Rodh

Ek Phaali Rodh

Dr. Somshankar Roy, a social scientist, engages Swagato and Anwesha to create 'mock' crisis on the streets. The aim was to observe reactions of people to different forms of crisis happening around them, and to analyse and derive conclusions about human behaviour from them. But all theories and deductions go astray when they come face to face with a real crisis in their own lives and cannot decipher whether the crisis is MOCK or REAL.
10.0

Year:

2014

Sondhey Namaar Aagey

Sondhey Namaar Aagey

A young woman sets out to find the truth behind her mother's death after she receives a letter from her father, 16 years after his execution for her murder, claiming he was framed.
0.0

Year:

2014

Khaad

Khaad

Because of a train strike, a group of tourists, mostly unrelated to each other, get stuck in New Mal Junction. These people are honeymooners (Saheb and Mimi), family vacationers (Pallavi Chatterjee, Koushik Banerjee, Tridha Choudhury), an ailing mother and her son (Lily Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly), a priest (Ardhendu Banerjee), a heroine and her abnormal brother (Gargi Roy Choudhury, Rajdeep Ghosh), one trekker (Kamaleshwar Mukherjee), a bus conductor (Rudranil), and a retired teacher (Maasud Akthar). One of the tourists, the priest manages to arrange a bus from the church for them to reach North Bengal. The other tourists also join him in the bus trip, but unfortunately the bus meets with a terrible accident. It falls off a cliff into an abyss, but the tourists survive with minor injuries. Injured and traumatized, they realize that they have become completely detached from any form of human contact.
5.8

Year:

2014

The Re-Incarnate

The Re-Incarnate

Rohit, a Gujarati, studies the life of Anthony Firengee, and in the process meets with a mysterious man Kushawl Hajra.
7.6

Year:

2014

The Haunted Nighty

The Haunted Nighty

The story of the film revolves around a cursed nightie which changes hands in a logical manner, not magically. The original owner of the nightie had experienced unfulfilled love, which ultimately led to a curse on it. A wannabe actress comes to Kolkata from a village in pursue of her career. She can cross all limits in order to become successful. She uses that nightie for seducing producers and she doesn't regret in what she is doing. The events that take place later form the climax of the story.
3.6

Year:

2014

Mountains of the Moon

Mountains of the Moon

Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
5.6

Year:

2013

The Egyptian Mystery

The Egyptian Mystery

Al Mamun, an Egyptian business tycoon, asks his friend Kakababu to help him decode some hieroglyphic symbols that will help trace the will of his teacher, Mufti Mohammad.
5.9

Year:

2013

Goynar Baksho

Goynar Baksho

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women & their changing position in society,seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next. A film by Aparna Sen.
6.7

Year:

2013

Aborto

Aborto

Aborto is a film which talks about the relentless pursuit of prominence in professional career, and the resulting alienation from loved ones in terms of sensitivity, feeling and emotion. ...
5.5

Year:

2013

Hemlock Society

Hemlock Society

Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.
7.1

Year:

2012

Baishe Srabon

Baishe Srabon

A serial killer terrorises the city of Kolkata and leaves behind verses of Bengali poetry. The police seek the help of a retired officer to unravel the case and find the perpetrator.
7.3

Year:

2011

Chaplin

Chaplin

Bangshi Das is an impersonator of Charlie Chaplin. He earns peanuts by being the 'joker' at birthday parties. However, he prefers to call himself an actor rather than a worker. His life circles around his son who is the greatest critic of his performances. Poverty never seems bitter as the father-son duo knows how to make fun of it.
6.2

Year:

2011

Desire

Desire

Manas is an insurance agent. He lives with his wife Mamata and son Shamik. Mamata is dissatisfied by her husband's outlook and dreams of bringing up her son differently. But, when Shamik grows up he starts rebelling against his mother's decisions and dominance. ~Wikipedia
3.7

Year:

2011

Noukadubi

Noukadubi

Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes his mind when the bride's mother pleads with him, and gets married without even seeing, leave alone getting to know his bride. After the marriage, they board a boat which overturns after a storm, and they end up being the only survivors. Unable to get Hemnalini out of his mind, he refuses to be intimate with his bride. On talking with her gradually over the next few months, it slowly sinks in that she is not Sushilla but Kamla - the bride of another male! The question remains: what can he do under these circumstances, and what impact will this have on Kamla - who has traditionally accepted him as her husband.
7.0

Year:

2011

Memories in March

Memories in March

The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms with her late son’s sexual identity.
7.0

Year:

2011

Cholo Paltai

Cholo Paltai

Gaurav, who is about to take the test for his board exams, is more interested in playing cricket than studying. Worried about his son's future, Subhomoy, a single parent, tries to change his mind.
6.0

Year:

2011

Satrangee Parachute

Satrangee Parachute

Satrangee Parachute is a Hindi-language film released 25 February 2011. The film revolves around an eight-year-old runaway kid who runs away from his village in Nainital to Mumbai with four of his friends.
6.0

Year:

2011

Jiyo Kaka

Jiyo Kaka

Three friends with stars in their are struggling in the Kolkata film industry to make it big as actor, director and screenwriter respectively, when they hit upon the perfect idea for a film, and make it into a script. But finding a producer to finance the film proves tougher than conceiving it; so they approach a diva both for starring in the film as well as producing it. Spurned even by her and at the end of their tether, they take recourse to the only option left - to play out the plot of the film in real life, which is to kidnap the heroine to raise funds by way of ransom. But unexpected twists ensue.
9.5

Year:

2011

Takhan Teish

Takhan Teish

Takhan Teish is a 2010 Bengali film directed Atanu Ghosh which was premiered at the 6th Osaka International Film Festival, Japan. It is Ghosh's second feature film.
0.0

Year:

2011

Thana Theke Aschi

Thana Theke Aschi

A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide...
3.5

Year:

2010

Just Another Love Story

Just Another Love Story

Delhi-based trans documentary filmmaker, Abhiroop Sen, wants to make a documentary film on the life of famous jatra thespian, Chapal Bhaduri. But in doing so Sen recognises that their life resembles Chapal's life. 'Just Another Love Story' revolves around the trauma, the setbacks, and the heartache experienced by the trans community.
4.6

Year:

2010

Autograph

Autograph

Arun, a famous Bengali actor, approves Shuvobrata's proposal of remaking Satyajit Ray's famous film 'Nayak'. Problems arise when Shuvobrata requests his live-in girlfriend Shrin to act opposite Arun.
8.1

Year:

2010

Ami Aadu

Ami Aadu

An endearing love story in the time of cultural conflicts presenting the personal tragedy of the emigrant commoner caught in the crossfire of international wars.
0.0

Year:

2010

Cross Connection

Cross Connection

Imon, a dancer, is in love with Aakaash, a happy-go-lucky guy. However, they constantly fight, which finally leads to a break-up. Imon subsequently starts dating Vicky while Aakaash dates Piya.
0.0

Year:

2009

Shob Charitro Kalponik

Shob Charitro Kalponik

The sudden death of Indraneel, a poet, averts a possible divorce and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovering her own roots through the language of poetry and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past.
5.3

Year:

2009

Challenge

Challenge

A young woman is not so much playing hard-to-get as she is literally hard to get, given her wealthy and ruthless father who will protect her from male advances at any cost.
3.7

Year:

2009

Bor Asbe Ekhuni

Bor Asbe Ekhuni

Mitil a small town girl from Siliguri decides to come to Kolkata to realize her dreams of becoming a radio jockey. Her father supports her decision, but her mother is against it and constantly asks her daughter to get married
7.5

Year:

2008

Mumbai Cutting

Mumbai Cutting

An anthology of eleven short films from eleven directors featuring stories of life in Mumbai.
0.0

Year:

2008

Lovesongs

Lovesongs

Kolkata-based Rohan Mitra lives with his widowed maternal grandmother, Mridula Chatterjee. He is an aspiring advocate who will soon be taking up his first assignment with an established lawyer and is attracted to Tara. Through discussions with his grandmother, he finds out that his parents' relationship was far from harmonious - with his mother, Palaash, getting into arguments with her husband, Dev, and frequently asking Mridula to intervene, and even moving out several times - with Dev threatening to move the courts to take possession of Rohan.
5.0

Year:

2008

Tolly Lights

Tolly Lights

Tolly Lights is a 2008 Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Arjun Chakraborty, starring Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyadarshini Chatterjee and Arjun Chakraborty in lead roles. The Film is based on the novel "Rangeen Prithibi" by Suchitra Bhattacharya.[1][2] Hindi film actor Sunny Deol played an important role in the film.
0.0

Year:

2008

Aamra

Aamra

Six people from different backgrounds share their love stories, lovers and relationships. In the process they come to terms with their own thoughts and feelings.
0.0

Year:

2006

Teesta

Teesta

Cocooned in the hilly wrap of Kalimpong, divorcee schoolteacher Teesta (Debasree Roy) feels she can't communicate with people any more. She speaks to the mountains instead, and even when a much younger man (Badshah Moitra) tries to ignite her passion, she remains aloof. Her second marriage is on the rocks.
0.0

Year:

2005

SVF Production No. 171

SVF Production No. 171

A straightforward cop and a college professor get entangled in a dangerous crime. One must fight for his integrity, and the other must fight for justice.
0.0

Year:

-

Raasta

Raasta

Neil loves Liza, a beautiful woman, but she breaks his heart by getting married to someone else. Thereafter, Neil tries to find solace by joining the world of organised crime.
0.0

Year:

2003