This is the second of a two-part piece on how standalone movie theatres are fading from our lives, interspersed with insights from theatre owners and personal anecdotes by the writer. Basusree Cinema right on the main S.P. Mukherjee Road is still running in a financially weak
This is the first of a two-part piece on how standalone movie theatres are fading from our lives, interspersed with insights from theatre owners and personal anecdotes by the writer. No Presents Please is a collection of short stories by the Kannada writer Jayant Kaikini. The
Indrajit: Where and how did you first meet Rituparno Ghosh? Prabuddha: I remember the first time he called me was on July 18, 2011. The date stands out because I had lost my mother just two days earlier. He told me he had started a project
Abhijaan One good news is that this year, not less than seven Bengali films have been chosen for screening at the 12th International Film Festival of Melbourne. The package presents a happy collage of filmmakers, subjects, treatment and approach. The festival will run from the second
After a long hiatus, theatres in Kolkata opened at 50 per cent capacity with two very indifferent films, followed by two distinctive films by noted filmmakers releasing on August 19. One of these is Binisutoy, written and directed by National Award-winner Atanu Ghosh. The other
Tathagata Ghosh is a young, talented and prolific short-film maker. His films, beginning with Doitto, have had a successful run across film festivals in India and abroad. Miss Man is about a young man who feels he is a woman trapped in a man’s body.
His voice had a touch of boundless energy, youthful euphoria and a depth of pathos, that none in the centuries to come will probably ever have. And that too without formal grooming in music. Kishore Kumar arrived on the stage of Bollywood at an age
It was a Big Day for Bengali film buffs as Payal Kapadia’s first feature ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ bagged the prestigious Oeil d’Or award or the Golden Eye Award for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. The film was up against 27
Young filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh’s directorial debut Hrid Majharey (2014) fell flat on its face at the box office when it was released in Kolkata. The film, which was intended by the director as a tribute to William Shakespeare on his 450th birth anniversary, completed exactly
Twenty years is a long time to prove your worth, specially in the fragile environs of the film industry. But Tota Roychoudhury was probably not aware of this when he stepped into films. By the time he did become aware, instead of pulling away, he