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It’s a tough game of survival in Calcutta, a city which keeps its people in their same old spaces with the same-same job opportunities, with little to no chance to change their lives for the better. For those few brave who try to challenge the rules of the societal game in Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s drama “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta”, things don’t go all too well. Ela (Sreelekha Mitra) gets punished for being born out of a wedlock as a daughter of a wealthy, married man and the city’s once-upon-a-time big performance star. She can’t be included to the inheritance, and her half-brother Bubu (Bratya Basu) is still sulking about his father’s infidelity four decades later, blocking her chances of getting the fair share out of the sale of the family house where he still lives alone, locked behind the barred door. Raja...

It’s a tough game of survival in Calcutta, a city which keeps its people in their same old spaces with the same-same job opportunities, with little to no chance to change their lives for the better. For those few brave who try to challenge the rules of the societal game in Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s drama “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta”, things don’t go all too well. Ela (Sreelekha Mitra) gets punished for being born out of a wedlock as a daughter of a wealthy, married man and the city’s once-upon-a-time big performance star. She can’t be included to the inheritance, and her half-brother Bubu (Bratya Basu) is still sulking about his father’s infidelity four decades later, blocking her chances of getting the fair share out of the sale of the family house where he still lives alone, locked behind the barred door. Raja...

It’s a tough game of survival in Calcutta, a city which keeps its people in their same old spaces with the same-same job opportunities, with little to no chance to change their lives for the better. For those few brave who try to challenge the rules of the societal game in Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s drama “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta”, things don’t go all too well. Ela (Sreelekha Mitra) gets punished for being born out of a wedlock as a daughter of a wealthy, married man and the city’s once-upon-a-time big performance star. She can’t be included to the inheritance, and her half-brother Bubu (Bratya Basu) is still sulking about his father’s infidelity four decades later, blocking her chances of getting the fair share out of the sale of the family house where he still lives alone, locked behind the barred door. Raja...