Devastated, Arindam tries to kill himself by drowning in the river Teesta (now in North Bengal). But Rumi follows him. She doesn’t forgive him — but she needs him. Her sister has been trafficked. The police won’t help.

As Arindam paints Rumi, flashbacks reveal: Teesta was not just his lover. She was a revolutionary’s wife whom he secretly loved. When the Pakistani army attacked their village, Arindam had a boat that could hold only two. He chose to save himself and Teesta. But Teesta, at the last moment, jumped back to save her child — a child Arindam never knew existed.

: Debashree Roy , Badshah Moitra, Chandrayee Ghosh, Lily Chakraborty, and Pijush Ganguly Genre : Drama Runtime : 1 hour 52 minutes AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more Teesta (2005) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

Teesta * Bratya Basu. * Stars. Lily Chakraborty. Debashree Roy.

A celebrated but reclusive painter, haunted by the memory of a woman who vanished during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, discovers her look-alike daughter in a Kolkata brothel, forcing him to confront the thin line between love, obsession, and salvation.

Anjan’s blood ran cold. He remembered that day. The rain had been uncooperative. They had only one chance for the shot. A local girl had been hired as a junior artist to splash near the riverbank. He recalled a brief commotion, an assistant shouting something, but he had overruled it. “Focus! The light is dying!”