Rajkahini

Rajkahini by director Srijit Mukherji is a Bengali drama film with an ensemble cast including renowned actors like Rituparna Sengupta, Jisshu Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Sudipta Chakraborty etc. The film is based In 1947 August timeline and is about the British passing a bill regarding the partition of Bengal and centrally revolves around a Zamindar house in Rajshahi district of Bengal and how the partition would lead to an actual border through the middle of the house and how the residents of the house defend their freedom and cope with it. It revolves around the era of 1947 and explores the consequences of the partition of India. Delving into the grim history of the partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is weaved around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing eleven women.