Porshi (Chandrasish Ray) India |

Porshi
Chandrasish Ray
India. 2025. 100 min

Like any other metropolitan city, Kolkata is a mix of diverse people. Bappa works as a supervisor in a movers-and-packers company owned by Ratan, his boss, who is almost torment personified. Bappa’s girlfriend, Monika, is running around the city in pursuit of a government job she has already cleared but has not yet received the offer letter for. Choto, a 22-year-old truck driver working under Bappa, is a village boy struggling to discover his own sense of right and wrong amid the bustle of this grey city. Siuli is a homemaker, raising two children and dealing with a drunken husband, never having imagined that her life would be trapped within the claustrophobia of four walls.
We are all neighbours – Porshi (in Bengali) – to one another in some way or the other. We never know when we cross paths with a neighbour whose face we may not even recognize. Porshi (Neighbours, in english) is a palette of independent colours who never realized that, together, they could form a rainbow.

CHANDRASISH RAY

Chandrasish Ray, who honed his craft over nine years as an Assistant and later Associate Director to National Award-winning filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly, made his directorial debut with Nirontor (The Prologue) – a film he also wrote.
His acclaimed short film Dugga (2017) received recognition at various Indian festivals and was selected for the Indian Panorama (Non-Feature) section at IFFI, Goa.
His second feature film, Porshi, was awarded Best Film in the Bengali Panorama Competition at KIFF (2025).
His first web series, Jaha Bolibo Sotyo Bolibo, is currently streaming on the OTT platform Hoichoi.
His third feature film, Vijaynagarer Heerey, a Kakababu–Shontu adventure based on a story by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay, was released on January of this year.
Primarily working as an ad filmmaker in Kolkata, he has directed commercials for several prominent brands, including Licious, Kolkata Knight Riders, Prega News, Keventer, ITC, SRMB, and Ganesh Grains,
among others.