Tasher Desh
2013 | 114 mins. | Bengali | Fantasy/ Musical

Once upon a time, there was a storyteller. In a lonely railway station, somewhere in Kolkata, he spoke to trains. He wanted to tell a story. It was not a new story. But for him, it was the only story to tell. Inside the darkness of his mind, his story unfolds, a kaleidoscope of fantasy. Once upon a time, there was a prince. a victim of his destiny, he was banished with his mother to a dark and distant prison palace. Here he grows up, without hope, without a future, with his mother drowning herself in alcohol. His depression countered only by his friend, the merchant’s son, who argues that it was indeed the prince’s choice to remain locked in. realizing the extent of his despair, the friend invokes the oracle. A mysterious figure, the oracle passes on a message of liberation. The prince realizes that he is indeed a prisoner of his mind. He takes a decision, to leave. He has a final moment with his mother, who lets him go. The prince takes hold of his destiny, and sets off on a voyage with his friend, searching for an adventure. The storyteller begins his journey as well, leaving the city, and traveling to a ruined palace, which is where we had found the prince. Here, he encounters a strange woman, a widow, living alone, as if waiting for him to turn up. He is mesmerized by her, and soon, begins to tell her the story. She is his muse, the one who he was waiting for. Finally having found the listener, the storyteller launches into an even more intense narrative. Shipwrecked on a paradise island, the prince and the friend encounter a strange culture. The islanders are all soldiers, who call themselves the cards, and live by a code of rules that outlaws any human behavior. Before they know it, an aggressive party of the islanders, holds the visitors captive. Presented at court, and having angered the cards by defying their court customs, they are pronounced guilty, and banished. But before he leaves, the prince asks for a last word, and takes the opportunity to whisper the same message of liberation he received from his guardian angel to a few of the card women. The result is chaos. The women are completely shaken, and soon the land of cards sees dissent for the first time.

Director: Q

Producer: NFDC, Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd., Q, Celine Loop

Cast: Joyraj Bhattacharjee, Rii Sen, Soumyak Kanti De Biswas, Anubrata Basu, Tilotamma Shome, Tinu Verghis, Imaad Shah, Maya Tideman

The Good Road
2013 | 92 mins. | Gujarati | Drama

Pappu is a truck driver. Supporting his parents and extended family is beyond his means. Now, he has been presented a plan. An accident will be staged. Pappu will “die”. Insurance payments are substantial. David and Kiran, a middle class urban couple, with their son Aditya, are on a holiday. Aditya will be accidentally separated from them during a brief halt at a Dhaba. And his loss will only be discovered several hours, and several hundred kilometers later. They must double back to find him. Poonam is an 11-year old-year-old child from the city. She is looking for her grandmother, living in a town at the end of this highway. Tired and hungry, Poonam unwisely stops at the Topaz, what seems to be a small garment dying unit. Aditya will be found by a local dhaba owner, and put onto Pappu’s truck. Has Aditya found a new and unlikely home on this truck? Later, when it is too late, Poonam will discover that the Topaz is not quite the place for her. She will be confronted, forcefully, with the very same choices she is running away from. Which way will this young girl turn? And Pappu, looking for answers to balance his need with those of this little boy, will find a new strength and conviction within.

Director Gyan Correa

Producer: NFDC

Cast: Sonali Kulkarni, Ajay Gehi, Keval Katrodia, Shamji Dhana Kerasia, Priyank Upadhyay, Poonam Kesar Singh

Awards: National Film Award for Best Gujarati Fillm, 2013

Gangoobai
2012 | 110 mins. | Marathi-Hindi-English | Drama

Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, lives in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran where she loves to tend to her beloved flowers in an eco-sensitive zone where no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles. Gangoobai's life altering moment arrives when she sees Hodiwala's teenage daughter wearing a magnificent designer Parsi sari of white Chinese motifs embroidered on a background of purple silk. She instantly falls in love with this exotic, expensive, custom-made creation - and longs to own one herself.

Driven by this unlikely obsession, she finds herself in the big, polluted, overcrowded city of Mumbai - an urban nightmare she is utterly unprepared for. Yet, her essential goodness sets her life on a path that surpasses anything that she could ever have imagined...

Director Priya Krishnaswamy

Producer: NFDC

As the River Flows

India | 2009 | Social -Political Thriller | Assamese

A social activist, Sridhar Ranjan, is missing in action in Majuli - the largest inhabited river island in the world. 7 years later Sridhar is about to be officially declared dead when his friend Abjijit, a journalist, comes in search of him.

Abhijit is an outsider trapped in hostile, terrorist infested conditions with distant islanders. His only hope is beautiful local guide Sudakshina. But like the unpredictable river Brahmaputra, her existence has unseen undercurrents.
Will Abhijit be able to solve the mystery? Is he walking down the same path as his friend Sridhar Ranjan? Does a similar fate await him as the River flows?

Director: Bidyut Kotoky

Cinematography: Madhu Ambat

Producer: NFDC

Cast: Sanjay Suri, Victor Banerjee, Raj Zutsi


Director's statement: Bidyut Kotoky

When we talk of terrorism in any part of the world we know that terrorists' point of view because they survive on propagandas. The people opposing them has to counter those propagandas, so we know their point of view as well. In this cross fire of propagandas some were the voice of common man is lost. My film is a humble attempt to give voice to that silent majority …

Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan
Alms for a blind horse

2011 | 113 mins. | Punjabi | Drama

NFDC releases Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan - a Punjabi language film directed by Gurvinder Singh, on 10th August 2012 in association with PVR 'Director's Rare'

Gurvinder Singh's first Punjabi feature film Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan based on Punjabi novelist and Jnanpeeth Award winner Professor Gurdial Singh's novel tries to bring to screen the effect that years of subordination can bring to struggling masses in the face of events spinning beyond their control. Devoid of the power to change course of their own destiny and the invisible violence of power equations. AGDD reflects the simmering discontent etched on their faces.
The film was nominated as the Top Ten Best Films of the World in 2011 by the US Journal Film Comment!.

Director | Screenplay: Gurvindar Singh

Story: based on the novel by Gurdial Singh

Music: Catherine Lamb

Creative Producer: the late Mani Kaul

Producer: NFDC

Sanskar
Reform

2011 | 80 mins. | Bengali (With English Subtitles) | Drama

Sanskar speaks about a shocking revelation, the unbelievable disgrace of the socially unaccepted situation a person is through which create a quake of such magnitude in his close circle that the long nourished relations start crushing and tumble down. Old father, wife, son, friends and colleagues face a meaningless catastrophe with utter disbelief and start to evaluate the long standing serene relation with hatred and pain.

Director | Screenplay: Late Shri Nabyendu Chatterjee

Story: Shyamal Sengupta

Producer: NFDC

As The River Flows
Ekhon Nedheka Nodir Xhipare

2011 | 100 mins. | Assamese | Political Thriller

A social activist, Sridhar Ranjan, is missing in action in Majuli - the largest inhabited river island in the world. 7 years later Sridhar is about to be officially declared dead with his friend Abjijit, a journalist, comes in search of him.

Abhijit is an outsider trapped in hostile, terrorist infested conditions with distant islanders. His only hope is beautiful local guide Sudakshina. But like the unpredictable river Brahmaputra, her existence has unseen undercurrents.

Will Abhijit be able to solve the mystery? Is he walking down the same path as his friend Sridhar Ranjan? Does a similar fate await him as the river flows?

Director: Bidyut Kotoky

Cinematography: Madhu Ambat

Producer: NFDC

Mayabazaar
110 mins. | Colour | Bengali

Mayabazaar released in theatres all over Kolkata on June 1, 2012. The film is directed by Joydeep Ghosh and produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India.

Smriti…. (Memories)

Smriti is story of an young widow Kuhu, who is engulfed by the memory of her husband. So powerful is this obsession, that when she takes on a lover, that man slowly starts changing into her dead husband. The story of Kuhu's memories and loneliness is narrated by Nishit to his lady friend when they meet in a bar.

Satwa (Soul)

Satwa is a story of Dhritin, a painter who lives in a big house with his stepmother. While looking at a set of old photos of old Calcutta clicked by his friend Shomok, he sees the photo of the girl who frequents his dreams. When asked, Shomok says it's his sister Bonolata, who lives far away. Dhritin goes to Shomok's country house in Nijhumpur, where the caretaker Kalida tells him about bonolota who got drowned in the pond. Dhritin feels the presence of Bonolota in the house and slowly starts getting obsessed with her, his obsession grows to such extent that one day he creates her out of thin air and starts with living with a self-created image of Bonolota.

Bhobisshot (Future)

Bhobisshot is about Mahesh, a professor of Mathematics and Harinath is professor of Philosophy. Mahesh is an atheist and Harinath is a believer. The argument goes on and through various incidents they come face to face with the only truth of life, which is death.

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