He was the mysterious magician Barfi in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen,’ and knowledge bank Sidhu Jyatha in Feluda or Shiv Nath Sharma, the patriarch of the ironically-named Shanti Niwas in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Bawarchi.’ Whatever character he portrayed, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, was a multi-faceted talent,
Many of us will agree that Satyajit Ray’s Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen would be incomplete without Jahar Roy’s epic portrayal of ‘Mantri moshai - shara jantri moshai.’ His partnership with Bhanu Bandopadhyay in Bhanu Goenda Jahor Assistant, Ashiteo Ashiona, Miss Priyangbada are simple masterpieces in
Forty-eight years have passed since well-known theatre director Arun Mukhopadhyay had staged the iconic Marich Sangbad. Since then the play has been staged more than a thousand times. And who can ever forget the stupendous performance of Biplabketan Chakraborty! Along with him, the play also
No one could bring the sentiments of the Indian middle class better on celluloid than legendary film maker Basu Chatterjee. With his passing away, Indian cinema will lose the micro-feelings of the common man, that are usually dumped under the huge load of regular duties.
As anti-racist protests rock the world, the first ‘man of colour’ and the youngest in the history of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), a Bengali award-winning TV producer has been appointed to hold a prestigious chair in BAFTA’s 73-year history. Majumdar, who has
This year marks the 99th birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century who brought Indian cinema to the world forum with Pather Panchali. For young film director, Shamik Basu, it seemed like a tryst with destiny when his
The talented octogenarian thespian struggled to fight abject penury and lived a life of ignominy in a crammed one-room rented house in the infamous red-light area of the city. Her profession had long discarded her and fame had eluded her but she did not know,
I am twenty, In my twenty years, I’ve been walking for a thousand; For a thousand years, I’ve been walking – pushing through poverty, destitution and death, For a thousand years, I’ve been a witness to history – the history of poverty, of deprivation, of exploitation, For a thousand
As the art of letter writing died over the last decade, most of us thought formal or informal emails and WA messages would do the trick of expressing feelings. Though in the age of Fast Forward, such tools of communication are used, but they can
Out of the 100 best foreign films chosen by BBC, only one Indian film has made to the list --- Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. Needless to say, it has been placed at number 15, quite high in a list that is topped by Akira Kurosawa's