Ek Mutho Chabi

Infobox Film
name = Ek Mutho Chabi
release date = September, 2005 language = Bengali

Ek Mutho Chabi ( _bn. এক মুঠো ছবি) is a bengali feature-film released in September, 2005. The name suggests about the type of movie. Its not a movie of continuous story of 1 and half hour. Rather its a compilation of six different stories combined together, all of around 20-25 minutes duration. All directed by different directors. The movie is a kind of experiment with short stories after success of telefilm industry.

Movie Synopsis

Story 1

*Cast: Rajatava Dutta, Srilekha Mitra
*Plot: Rajatava and Srilekha live in a flat in Kolkata. They are running in debts. One day Rajat got a call from bank to pay back all the money that he borrowed from there, Else he will be rusticated from the flat. The only way he can manage the money is to arrange for a woman for his boss on his boss's birthday. Circumstances leads to the fact that the woman is none other than Srilekha, Rajatava's wife. This way the money has been arranged and the couple live happily ever after.

Story 2

*Cast: June Maliah, Arunima Ghosh
*Plot: Arunima is a tea-stall owner. Came to Kolkata from a village, she is illiterate, her tea-cum-shop is just beside a corporate building. She has a dream to live like a queen. The inspiration she bought from June, an employee of the company, whose office is in the said building. Arunima fantasizes about June. Thinks that one day even she will be coming to office and do all the other stuffs that his didi (June) is doing now. For that she drops 2-3 coins in a tin-can everyday, thinking that one day this assembling together will make her rich. But one night her tin-can got stolen. She suspected a male-friend of her has done that. She went to him, screamed for her money and in anger busted a brick on his head. The last scene shows that June got scared when she saw police arresting Arunima.

Story 3

*Cast: Supriya Devi
*Plot: A mediocre doctor in Kolkata being unsatisfied with his marriage life, keeps a secret affire with a woman, who is the maid of Supriya Devi. and the doctor is a family friend of Supriya devi, Thus their (between the doctor and the servant) relationship gets stronger. One day, supriya shows the doctor an old necklace of her. Her estimation says that necklace is worth Rs 40 lacs that time. Somehow the doctor managed a photograph of the necklace and ordered a Jewellers' shop to make a verbatim copy of that of aluminium. One day, he went to Supriya Devi's bungalow for a formal visit. No one was there. She gave her extra overdose of Morfin, a drug used for insomnia patients. But overdose of it can lead to the patient's death. So the owner of the necklace perished away. The doctor replaced the original necklace with the duplicate. He also issued the death certificate of her. But somehow, the maid-servant came to know about his misdeed and started blackmailing him. The story ended here.

Story 4

*Cast: Biplab Chatterjee, Indrani Halder
*Director; Prabhat Ray
*Plot: Biplab, better known as "Ragunbabu" among the local boys is always angry with everyone, starting from his wife, son and the boys of the locality. He scolds his son every-time for not studying. Biplab's wife Indrani tries to defend her son. Indrani tolerates her husband for all his scolding, his misdeed, his forgetfullness everything. But one day, even she succumbs to the pressure and gets into quarrel with her husband. Biplab slaps her in front of her son. His son gets angry and throws his cricket bat all of a sudden to his dad, beats his dad randomly. Indrani asks for a taxi and takes her husband to a nursing home. The last scene shows the boy committing his mistake to everyone saying that he has beaten his dad. But he is not at all sorry for that.

Story 5

*Cast: Rupa Ganguly, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Pallavi Chatterjee
*Plot: Rupa and Kunal both works for the film industry. They live together in a flat. Rupa is more famous than her boyfriend. She thinks that her bf is jealous about her. All of a sudden, she met a car accident one day while going to the studio with Bikram and lost her one leg. Consequently, she lost all her jobs. Kunal prospers. This story tells about some forceful but untrusted relationship and then about the repentance of the couple.

Story 6

*Cast: Sudipa Basu, Kaushik Sen, Santu Mukherjee
*Plot: Two girls from same family appears for the West Bengal Higher Secondary Exam the same year. One of them (Payel) has made a hype that she might made it into the top 10 in the merit-list. She wears a spectacle of high-power. Her sister (Ritu) is not so meritorious. Rather she aspires for being a film-star. Thats why even their teacher Kaushik pays more attention to Payel rather than to her sister. In the exam hall, circumstances leads to an uncanny situation. Payel's specs gets broken. Her spare specs is not with her, its at home. Their parents will come at lunch break and their phone dead. So no way to bring the other specs from home. Ritu sacrifices her exam for her elder sister, runs to home and brings back the other specs for Payel. This shows the level of commitment for her sister.