Subrata Chakraborty, the young and famous Production Designer of Bollywood, whose name is linked to blockbusters like Padmaavat, Chappak, Haider, Talvar and more and who was the production designer from India to have been called for the Oscar Jury, speaks to GetBengal on his difficult
They are super busy, their deft hands packing kilos of that golden immunity booster that even Rigveda had mentioned as the antidote to viruses centuries ago. Their sales and orders from across India have suddenly shot up in the past week, their IIT Kharagpur ‘tested’
Have you ever watched a caged bird flapping frantically, wings tied to destiny, wishing for freedom? Who else than Rabindranath Tagore felt that hidden pain and penned the famous story-poem: Boner pakhi and Khanchhar pakhi. No wonder well-known theatre personality Pradip Bhattacharya way back in
I did not meet Soumitra Chatterjee on stage. My first tryst with the actor was as Feluda in Sonar Kella, and despite being a die-hard Uttam Kumar fan, I could not but fall in love with the slim and tall young Feluda, whose sharp eyes
It was a balmy winter afternoon in 1994, when he first came across Maya (named changed on request) while chatting in a cyber cafe of Nepal. They turned family friends and Raju Nepali, the lone crusader, who for decades literally worked single-handedly in spreading awareness
‘My ornaments are fruits, my garments leaves, woven like cloth of gold and crimson dyed---’ may be the autumn Goddess bespoke of her own saaj, ornaments that happen to be every woman’s pride. Devi Durga in all her splendour, makes a grand entry, decked like
Devi Durga’s idol did not change much in form for over two centuries. This form was quintessentially Bengali in nature, known as ‘Bangla Chaler Thakur.’ Due to constrictions of religious scriptures, even today, ‘Bonedi barir pujo’ or the elite class households of Bengal worship this
In Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 years, Pratapaditya Pal mentions: ‘A type of art flourished in Calcutta, as nowhere else on the subcontinent, for almost as long as the city has existed. It is that of unfired clay sculpture, consisting primarily of representations
For him, no woman was Charitraheen. All women, even a courtesan or a prostitute was pure. That’s why Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay is probably one author whose maximum number of works have been adapted for movies, both in Bollywood and even in Bengali cinema. And they
For 130 years, the majestic Eiffel Tower has been a powerful and distinctive symbol of the city of Paris, and by extension, of France. The 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall tower is, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure of