Bishorjan
  • Bishorjan
  • Rating:/10 | Duration: | Country:Indian Bangla | Language:Bangla
  • Film opens with a young mother refusing to go see Durga bishorjon with her son. Bishorjon takes place with immense celebrations as the two Bengals drown their Durga idols in the river Ichamati separating them. The young lady remembers one such day after bishorjon in her past. After the partition of India, with Bengal being divided into East Pakistan (later became independent country Bangladesh) and West Bengal which is a state of India, the people from two sides started drifting apart with rising border tensions. Bangladeshi Hindu widow Padma who lives with her aged fragile father in law saves a Muslim man Naseer from West Bengal, who had drowned during Durga bishorjon in Ichamati river that separates the two Bengals. Padma takes care of Naseer and they plant his identity as her cousin brother to not attract suspicions as the border tensions are high and Naseer is an illegal intruder. The jamindar of Padma's village, a middle-aged man, Ganesh loves Padma and constantly tries to pursue her, and gets suspicious about Naseer. Padma and Naseer wonder how a river divided people from same ethnicity and there's so much differences in between them now be it dialect or lifestyles.
  • Genres: Drama |
  • Star Cast: Abir Chatterjee Jaya Ahsan Kaushik Ganguly |