Step out and find interesting events around you. GetBengal presents a list of events that you would surely not like to miss. EVENT: Netajism - An event on Netaji’s ideology, life and works DATE - 23rd January VENUE - Jadavpur University TIME - From 2 p.m. onwards CONTACT - 7439627566
Start your year afresh with interesting events that will crop up in Kolkata this January. GetBengal presents a list. Event - ‘Oh Solitude!’ - an exhibition of Sanat Kar’s paintings Date - 16th January 2023, Monday – 25th January 2023 Wednesday (except Sunday) Time - 2 p.m to 8 p.m. Venue
The curtain has come down on the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival, but the hangover is still very much in the air. As are the questions raised at some of KIFF’s highly interesting seminars and panel discussions. One such discussion held on December 19 at
Most of the numerous documentaries and feature films telling stories of India and its journey to Independence celebrate the nation’s firebrand and well known freedom fighters. Nalinikanta Bagchi is unlikely to be among them. Instead, he remains one of the scores of unsung, forgotten heroes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9bNgbZMJI To begin with a cliché, some truths are universal. The kind of truth that Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq talks about in his debut film ‘Joyland’. The kind of truth that gives birth to freedom and openness, and pushes for an end to gender discrimination. Openness of
At 65, Sheikh Nazim is one of Kolkata’s old ‘bhistiwalas’ (water carriers). Every day, he walks along the city’s lanes and bylanes, witness to the living history of its brick and mortar heritage. One of the last survivors of our rapidly changing times, he is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QmCH1ZdHjQ Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan completed his 80th year of existence on October 11 this year. As Mumbai’s tinsel town went into celebration mode, Amitabh retrospectives were screened in theatres around the country. Kolkata has joined the bandwagon with a screening of eight of Bachchan’s most popular
It has now been 40-45 years that I have been visiting film festivals in Kolkata, Delhi, Kerala, you name it. I watched the first Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) take off in 1995, when I was working for the advertising and publicity department of National
Chheley Kaar! (1954) Cast: Bikash Roy, Master Tilak, Chhabi Biswas, Arundhati Devi, Bhanu Banerjee, Tulsi Chakraborty, Nabadwip Haldar Director: Chitta Basu The most common description of Chheley Kaar! (literally, ‘whose son?’, but the exclamation mark is important) online is that it is a romantic comedy. Which is utter
Horror comedy is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Horror comedy is categorized into three types: black comedy, parody, and spoof. It often crosses over with the black comedy genre. Horror comedy can also parody or subtly