Bharate

In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.

Noni is an elderly woman who decides to marry her much younger boyfriend Partho. When her children and grandchildren learn about this they immediately arrive at the family house. The women cannot help but be smitten by the seductive Partho but they all have their suspicions regarding his ulterior motives to marry their grandmother

Without proper fluent English, Ramesh's dream job was eluding him. A frustrated and dejected Ramesh returns to his village and breaks down before his only living guardian, his Dadi. He also partly blames her for not having educated him in an English medium school. Dadi is unmoved and simply tells him that he will have to do something on his own instead of wasting time and energy looking for that job that is constantly eluding him. Ramesh notices a young boy come and buy murabbas from his grandmother and decides to sell murabbas as well, in order to help him learn spoken English.