These 10 Bengali films are the epitomes of relationship goals
Kaushik Ganguly’s recent hit Ardhangini (Better Half) and its sequel Aajo Ardhangini take this to an emotional extreme. The film places a man (Suman) in a coma, forcing his current wife (Meghna) to seek the help of his ex-wife (Subhra). The film does not moralize. Instead, it explores the awkward, fragile, and deeply moving emotional duel between two women who loved the same person—a narrative that asks, "Can a relationship ever be broken into two halves?".
Srijit Mukherji’s cinema frequently interrogates the structures of traditional commitments. In Nirbaak (Speechless), Mukherji explored love in its most unorthodox, avant-garde forms, transcending human-to-human boundaries. More subtly, in films like Praktan (directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, but featuring a highly relevant discourse on past baggage), the narrative acknowledges that love does not simply vanish when a marriage ends. The emotional overlap between past and present partners forms a psychological open relationship where memories coexist with current realities. Pratim D. Gupta and the Sensory Exploration of Desire