Deshantor (2022)

It was a time when Pakistan was yet to be created. Impending partition was already casting its shadow over Bengal. Kashbon is a village in eastern Bengal, where Manindra, a farmer, lives along with his wife, two sons, and daughter Manasa. Hindu inhabitants of the village are arranging to cross the border to India, just as Muslims from across the border are flocking in. Leaving their ancestral homeland, people are settling in unknown territories. People known to Manindra are joining the exodus, yet Manindra has no wish to leave his homeland, his country. A pious, traditional man, he gives his young daughter Manasa in marriage to the scion of a rich family in the village on the prior condition that the latter family would not leave the country. The wedding goes well, but soon after the wedding, Manasa finds out that her father-in-law's family is planning to cross the border and migrate to India. For Manasa, border-crossing signifies death, since she has never seen anyone coming back after migrating to India. When she gets a chance to visit her paternal home after a few days, she reveals it to her father. Manindra is enraged at this betrayal by his daughter's father-in-law's family. A few days later, Manasa's father-in-law visits Manindra's house on the boat to take Manasa along across the border... What happened after that? Did Manasa have to make the border-crossing that was so terrifying to her? Or did she have to sacrifice her nuptial life for her motherland which is valued over the heavens?