Bhaswar Chatterjee

Swapno Puron is a Bengali drama film starring Dipankar Dey, Swagata Basu, Nabomita Chatterjee, Bhaswar Chatterjee. Monotosh Babu, a retired man, reads an article about by an old woman who manages to complete graduation late in life. Inspired by her, Monotosh decides to complete higher education and joins a college. However, he hides the secret from his family and often falls into trouble for when they get suspicious.

The plot revolves around the land acquisition movement of 2006-07 in Bengal. The government asked the peasants to give up their lands for industrialization and promised them jobs in return. However, the peasants refused to give up their ancestral land as they smelled foul play and this led to a clash between them and the authorities. Later two women, Nandini and Radharani became the flag bearers of the movement, but they suffered a terrible fate.

Born under the atrocities of the British Raj in the early 1900s, the charismatic Bhagat Singh grows into a fierce and widely popular freedom fighter.

Mahalaya brings to screen a remarkable true incident from 1976. Directed by Soumik Sen.