After a lot of discussions, the cinema halls are being reopened on 15^th October. While there are many of you who will not be heading to the cinema halls to watch the films, but there are some who are looking forward to breaking the cycle of watching the films on the small screen. For them, the good news is that the opening of the cinema halls is coinciding with Durga Puja festivities in 2020. 12 films will be releasing during this time, out of which two are re-releases. We have prepared a list of films for you to choose and select which one you want to watch during the Durga Pujas.

New Releases

• Dracula Sir

The story is about a school teacher who has a pair of protruding canine teeth. This leads to him being called Dracula Sir. He eventually becomes the vampire.

Cast- Mimi Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya

Director- Debaloy Bhattacharya

• Rawkto Rawhoshyo

Swarnaja works as a radio jockey. She has been raised by her grandmother. This film is a journey of a mother and shows her relationship with her child.

Cast- Koel Mallik, Chandan Roy Sanyal

Director- Soukarya Ghosal

• SOS Kolkata

The story of the film revolves around a suspected terrorist attack and how the combined forces of the army, the police, and the common people join hands against this attack.

Cast- Nusrat Jahan, Mimi Chakraborty, Yash Dasgupta

Director- Anshuman Pratyush

• Saheber Cutlet

The film is about a chef who loses his job due to his temperament. He then realizes that even making a street food requires as much skill as making continental cuisine in which he excelled.

Cast- Arjun Chakrabarty, Anjan Dutta

Director- Anjan Dutt

• Guldasta

This woman-centric film revolves around the lives of Srirupa, Dolly, and Renu. The journey of the trio and the realities that they face form the backbone of the story.

Cast- Swastika Mukherjee, Arpita Chatterjee, Debjani Chatterjee

Director- Arjunn Dutta

• Love Story

The story is about a love triangle between three school friends. Later it is cleared who likes whom. The love story begins between the two. A twist happens when the boy is accused of molesting the girl. What happens next?

Cast- Bonny Sengupta, Rittika Sen

Director- Rajiv Kumar

• Shironam

Abhin and Anandi‘s peaceful life is turned topsy-turvy when he decides to cover a terrorist. He is the cameraperson of a leading news channel and he takes the responsibility to uncover as many facts as possible about the terrorist. This puts his life in danger. What happens to Abhin?

Cast- Jisshu U Sengupta, Anjan Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee

Director- Indranil Ghosh

• Cholo Potol Tuli

Ashwini Chakladar to prevent himself from the disease named Beri-Beri will go to any lengths to protect himself. He is paranoid about saving himself from the disease. The film is inspired by a play of the same name.

Cast- Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Aparajita Auddy

Director- Arindam Ganguly

• Ebhabei Golpo Hok

A director tries to go out of his comfort zone and tries to make a love story. His preferred genre of filmmaking was thrillers. He comes up with a story and starts to narrate it to his assistant. However, he finds that there is a novel with the same storyline. What happens next?

Cast- Joy Sengupta, Ananda Shankar Choudhury, Rupanjana Mitra

Director- Rohan Sen

• Doodh Pither Gachh

The film is about a village boy named Gour who sows pithe and waits for the pithe to grow on the tree. This film has been funded by the villagers of Aranghata in Nadia district.

Cast- Daminee Benny Basu, Kaushik Roy

Director- Ujjwal Basu

Re-releases

• Parcel

A couple, Nandini and Souvik who are doctors by professions lives with their teenage daughter. Nandini starts receiving anonymous parcels and she feels that someone was following her. This leads to developing fear of psychosis. What happens next?

Cast- Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee

Director- Indrasis Acharya

• Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti

Shabari is a lecturer as well as a performing artist. She is also engaged in doing pujas which is essentially a male-dominated field. When she tells her fiancé about her multiple works, he is taken aback and does not react positively. What happens to Shabari? Can she fight the outdated rituals and gender imbalances in society?

Cast- Ritabhari Chakraborty, Soham Majumdar

Director- Aritra Mukherjee

The ticket rates remain unchanged. However, the number of shows will be limited due to the following of the Covid-19 safety protocols.

Priyanka Dutta