Suman Mukhopadhyay

Suman Mukhopadhyay is an Indian film director. His first cinematic directorial debut film was Herbert which was released in 2005. Herbert won the National Award for Best Bengali film. He is in the post-production of his latest Hindi feature film "Nazarband". His last film is "Asamapta"(Incomplete), premiered in IFFLA, USA and is on Netflix. Before that "Shesher Kabita" (The Last Poem) with Rahul Bose and Konkona Sen Sharma premiered in Dubai International Film Festival and released on 7 August 2015. "Kangal Malsat"(The War Cry of the Beggars) his 4th feature film released on August 2013. Mahanagar@Kolkata was completed in 2009. The film was screened in Munich, Kerala and New York film festivals. His second film Chaturanga, based on Tagore's novel, was completed in 2008 and premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. Chaturanga was screened in 36 national and international festivals. The film received a Gran Prix award at Bridgefest, Sarajevo; the Best Director award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.[citation needed] Recently Mukhopadhyay has done a Zee5 original feature film Posham Pa and directed five episodes of Parchhayee based on Ruskin Bond stories.[1] Mukhopadhyay has done theatre productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali works. He used to be a part of Bengali theatre Group Chetana. Among his many works some are Raja Lear, Sunyo Sudhu Sunyo Noy, Bisarjan, ...

Herbert (2005)

Based on Nabarun Bhattacharyas novel of the same name which won the highest literary prize in India in 1997, Suman Mukhopadhyays debut feature Herbert is a deeply moving and artistically accomplished motion picture full of profound laughter, pathos, and humanity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Subhasish Mukherjee  •  Lily Chakravarty  •  Kabir Suman  •  Bratya Basu

Based on Nabarun Bhattacharyas novel of the same name which won the highest literary prize in India in 1997, Suman Mukhopadhyays debut feature Herbert is a deeply moving and artistically accomplished motion picture full of profound laughter, pathos, and humanity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Subhasish Mukherjee  •  Lily Chakravarty  •  Kabir Suman  •  Bratya Basu

Paanch Adhyay (2012)

Whenever love leaves, it leaves traces. Those traces cling on to old times and familiar spaces.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pratim D. Gupta
CAST:  Priyanshu Chatterjee  •  Dia Mirza  •  Soumitra Chatterjee  •  Anubrata Basu

Whenever love leaves, it leaves traces. Those traces cling on to old times and familiar spaces.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pratim D. Gupta
CAST:  Priyanshu Chatterjee  •  Dia Mirza  •  Soumitra Chatterjee  •  Anubrata Basu

Bada Din (1998)

It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anjan Dutt
CAST:  Shabana Azmi  •  Marc Robinson  •  Tara Deshpande  •  Irrfan Khan

It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anjan Dutt
CAST:  Shabana Azmi  •  Marc Robinson  •  Tara Deshpande  •  Irrfan Khan

Mahanagar@Kolkata (2010)

Director Suman Mukhopadhyay has strung three stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya Ek Tukro Nyloner Dori, Amar Kono Bhoy Nei Toh and Angshik Chandragrahan to create this film. The story of the film revolves around the people and their life of Kolkata metropolitan city ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Anjan Dutt  •  Sreelekha Mitra  •  Arun Mukherjee  •  Chandan Roy Sanyal

Director Suman Mukhopadhyay has strung three stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya Ek Tukro Nyloner Dori, Amar Kono Bhoy Nei Toh and Angshik Chandragrahan to create this film. The story of the film revolves around the people and their life of Kolkata metropolitan city ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Anjan Dutt  •  Sreelekha Mitra  •  Arun Mukherjee  •  Chandan Roy Sanyal

Kangal Malsat (2013)

Tired of the corrupt Communist regime and its policies, a group of flying humans and black magicians join forces to hatch a conspiracy and wage a guerrilla attack against the totalitarian government and overthrow it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Kabir Suman  •  Kaushik Ganguly  •  Kamalika Banerjee  •  Shantilal Mukherjee

Tired of the corrupt Communist regime and its policies, a group of flying humans and black magicians join forces to hatch a conspiracy and wage a guerrilla attack against the totalitarian government and overthrow it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Kabir Suman  •  Kaushik Ganguly  •  Kamalika Banerjee  •  Shantilal Mukherjee

Juice (2017)

Manju Singh and her husband are hosting a get-together of families on a really warm night. Between the snacks, drinks and the laughs, something completely unexpected happens.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Neeraj Ghaywan
CAST:  Shefali Shah  •  Manish Chaudhary  •  Pubali Sanyal  •  Suman Mukhopadhyay

Manju Singh and her husband are hosting a get-together of families on a really warm night. Between the snacks, drinks and the laughs, something completely unexpected happens.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Neeraj Ghaywan
CAST:  Shefali Shah  •  Manish Chaudhary  •  Pubali Sanyal  •  Suman Mukhopadhyay

Asamapta - Incomplete (2017)

Indrajit (played by the consistently stellar Ritwick Chakraborty) is an intelligent if indecisive man of 35 on holiday from Kolkata to visit his old college friend Moloy. He arrives to find Moloy constantly battling with his neglected wife Tuki, a formidable woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Ritwick Chakraborty  •  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Bratya Basu  •  Paoli Dam

Indrajit (played by the consistently stellar Ritwick Chakraborty) is an intelligent if indecisive man of 35 on holiday from Kolkata to visit his old college friend Moloy. He arrives to find Moloy constantly battling with his neglected wife Tuki, a formidable woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Ritwick Chakraborty  •  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Bratya Basu  •  Paoli Dam

Three Obsessions (2014)

Bengal episode film with three stories.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bauddhayan Mukherji
CAST:  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Kharaj Mukherjee  •  Manasi Sinha  •  Ratan Sarkhel

Bengal episode film with three stories.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bauddhayan Mukherji
CAST:  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Kharaj Mukherjee  •  Manasi Sinha  •  Ratan Sarkhel

Posham Pa (2019)

Gundeep and Nikhat are making a documentary on the government-based project of psycho women who killed several kids with her daughters. Prajakta Deshpande was a psycho woman who would sleep with men and kill them after robbing their valuables this bought a very bad ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Mahie Gill  •  Sayani Gupta  •  Ragini Khanna  •  Shivani Raghuvanshi

Gundeep and Nikhat are making a documentary on the government-based project of psycho women who killed several kids with her daughters. Prajakta Deshpande was a psycho woman who would sleep with men and kill them after robbing their valuables this bought a very bad ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Mahie Gill  •  Sayani Gupta  •  Ragini Khanna  •  Shivani Raghuvanshi

Nabarun (2018)

A documentary on the infamous Bengali magic realist, Nabarun is an exclamation mark in Bengali literature, the emphatic interjector. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of Nabarun's mind as his characters shamelessly hustle, behave ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Qaushiq Mukherjee
CAST:  Nabarun Bhattacharya  •  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Joyraj Bhattacharya  •  Mahasweta Devi

A documentary on the infamous Bengali magic realist, Nabarun is an exclamation mark in Bengali literature, the emphatic interjector. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of Nabarun's mind as his characters shamelessly hustle, behave ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Qaushiq Mukherjee
CAST:  Nabarun Bhattacharya  •  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Joyraj Bhattacharya  •  Mahasweta Devi

The Last Poem (2015)

The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Rahul Bose  •  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Tulika Basu  •  Sankalita Roy

The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Rahul Bose  •  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Tulika Basu  •  Sankalita Roy

Doll's House (2018)

Doll’s House is a Hindi play starring Swastika Mukherjee, Subhrajyoti Barat, Ratnabali Bhattacharya and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. Keya is a pampered wife and her husband, Shubhodeep, treats her like his most prized possession. All decisions are made by Shubhodeep and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Subhrajyoti Barat  •  Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Doll’s House is a Hindi play starring Swastika Mukherjee, Subhrajyoti Barat, Ratnabali Bhattacharya and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. Keya is a pampered wife and her husband, Shubhodeep, treats her like his most prized possession. All decisions are made by Shubhodeep and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Swastika Mukherjee  •  Subhrajyoti Barat  •  Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Four Chapters (2008)

Defying his father’s wishes by following his rebellious uncle’s example, a young Bengali from an upper caste tries to help those on the lower end of the spectrum and, while he’s at it, offers to marry his brother’s pregnant mistress.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Dhritiman Chatterjee  •  Rituparna Sengupta  •  Joy Sengupta  •  Subrat Dutta

Defying his father’s wishes by following his rebellious uncle’s example, a young Bengali from an upper caste tries to help those on the lower end of the spectrum and, while he’s at it, offers to marry his brother’s pregnant mistress.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Dhritiman Chatterjee  •  Rituparna Sengupta  •  Joy Sengupta  •  Subrat Dutta

Captive (2020)

'Nazarband', the National Award-winning filmmaker's first outing in Hindi, is inspired by a short story by much- revered Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi and depicts the journey of two young people.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Tanmay Dhanania  •  Indira Tiwari

'Nazarband', the National Award-winning filmmaker's first outing in Hindi, is inspired by a short story by much- revered Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi and depicts the journey of two young people.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Tanmay Dhanania  •  Indira Tiwari

Putulnacher Itikatha

WWII is looming large. A forlorn doctor longs for intellectual romance. Based on Manik Bandyopadhyay’s seminal novel, a humble protest against the hypocrites who tend to play with the lives of humans as if they were puppets  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Abir Chatterjee  •  Jaya Ahsan  •  Parambrata Chatterjee  •  Dhritiman Chatterjee

WWII is looming large. A forlorn doctor longs for intellectual romance. Based on Manik Bandyopadhyay’s seminal novel, a humble protest against the hypocrites who tend to play with the lives of humans as if they were puppets  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suman Mukhopadhyay
CAST:  Abir Chatterjee  •  Jaya Ahsan  •  Parambrata Chatterjee  •  Dhritiman Chatterjee

Memories of Time (2022)

The film is about a couple and how their relationship changes amid the pandemic and the lockdown.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goutam Ghose
CAST:  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Gargee RoyChowdhury

The film is about a couple and how their relationship changes amid the pandemic and the lockdown.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goutam Ghose
CAST:  Suman Mukhopadhyay  •  Gargee RoyChowdhury