The Diamond Butterfly

Heerer Prajapati

An intriguingly charming journey of a lost butterfly-shaped diamond brooch.

  • Director

    Shanti Prasad Choudhury

  • With

    Suchita Ray Chaudhury

  • India 1968. 77min. Total running time 114min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

Ghatak adapted this story by prominent Bengali writer Leela Majumder in 1966. Noted documentary filmmaker Choudhury directed. It tells the story of a lost butterfly-shaped diamond brooch that belongs to an elderly woman, and its passage through unexpected hands.

+ Fear

India 1965. Director Ritwik Ghatak. 17min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles

In this sci-fi short, young people shelter from an imminent apocalyptic war.

Courtesy of Film and Television Institute of India.

Film and Television Institute of India

+ My Lenin

Amar Lenin

India 1970. Director Ritwik Ghatak. 20min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles

Made to commemorate Lenin’s birth centenary, this film was banned in India for fear of inciting the ongoing Naxalite revolt.