Ashoke und Ashima Ganguli sind ein bengalisches Ehepaar, das kurz nach seiner arrangierten Hochzeit Kalkutta verlässt, um fortan in New York zu leben. Als sie für ihren neugeborenen Sohn einen Namen finden müssen, entscheidet sich Ashoke spontan für "Gogol", den Namen des berühmten russischen Schriftstellers. Der Name soll ein Bindeglied zwischen einer geheimen Vergangenheit und einer besseren Zukunft sein. Doch das Leben gestaltet sich für Gogol nicht so einfach: Er lebt das Leben amerikanischer Teenager mit allen seinen Sitten und Gebräuchen und ist doch zu Hause immer wieder mit seiner bengalischen, traditionellen Familie und deren Werten konfrontiert...
Devdas Mukherjee kommt als studierter Jurist nach 10 Jahren in seine Heimat Indien zurück. Dort empfängt ihn seine Familie sehr herzlich. Er selbst hat aber hauptsächlich Augen für seine Jugendliebe Paro. Da aber Paro aus einer ärmeren, niedrigeren Kaste stammt, verweigern die Eltern von Devdas die Heirat und demütigen zudem noch Paros Familie. Paros Eltern entscheiden daraufhin, dass sie einen älteren reichen Mann heiraten soll. Devdas bricht seelisch völlig zusammen und verfällt dem Alkohol. Er zieht in das Haus der Prostitutierten Chandramukhi ein und vegetiert als Alkoholiker vor sich hin. Nur seine Gedanken an Paro halten ihn am Leben.
To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
Ranjit is a young man who has been assured a lucrative job. All he has to do is turn up for the interview dressed in a western style suit, but all the city laundries are on strike that morning, and his only suit is dirty.
Farhaz Chowdhury, a top chef from Dhaka, first falls in love with her cooking and then with Basundhara — a woman who runs a home catering service. Ahaa Re is a celebration of food, and the love for it. More precisely, it's a celebration of the invested emotions and senses that turns cooking into an art form. And all this comes with a generous dollop of Bangaliana.
Anwar Ahmed Zayed is a Pakistani sleeper cell activist, who tried to inflict terror using a series of bombings in five different places of Kolkata. However, his plans are about to be derailed as Imtiyaz Kabir, the SP of Anti Terrorist Squad, headed by ADG Vikram Dwivedi and Monali Bhattacharyya, a cryptologist from IB team join hands to decipher the code language used by IM in email communications. Imtiyaz and his team, with the supervision of Vikram Dwivedi, raids the hide-outs of the terrorists and nab all the seven terrorists involved in this attack including Zayed. While behind the bars, Zayed apparently transforms himself into a pious Muslim. He wants to live the life of a common man and writes to the Chief Minister to review his death sentence and give him another chance to lead a normal life. Zayed gets released from jail after four years of his arrest and goes back to his village to reunite with his wife Sabina and daughter Razia.
A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own
A tale of paranormal romance, Kuasha Jakhon tells the story of a man who comes to sanctify a haunted mansion. But, the house's disturbing history and his exploration into its past, leads him to unexpected situations.
Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as a megacity with a reputation for eccentricity, culture and tolerance.