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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44R3qbwoO0 And here comes the first feature film made during Lockdown days. To take a creative route during these trying times, multi award winning independent filmmaker Amartya Bhattacharyya, has come up with a feature film named ‘Made in Isolation.’ As he puts in: ‘This is perhaps
What was perfection for one of the best actors of Bollywood, Irrfan Khan? Learning Bengali for Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s movie, where the director wanted none other than Irrfan as he knew the movie could be pulled out in a mix of English and Bengali dialect
When Chris Hemsworth in the recent Netflix sensation Extraction suddenly spoke a few words in Bengali, the audience was taken aback. Streaming on Netflix on April 24, the movie that also starred Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda in a negative role, had many outstanding action sequences.
She was just outstanding in the portrayal of an oppressed woman’s struggle against poverty, humiliation and desolation in Rudali. Well, we are not talking about Bollywood actress Dimple Kapadia, but one of Bengal’s most talented female theatre personality, Usha Ganguly, who played the role of
Existing in the world without having seen the sun and the moon That’s what legendary world-renowned film maker Akira Kurosawa had once said after watching the movie Pather Panchali and while discussing the film-making style of another legend, born and brought up in Bengal, Satyajit Ray.
Kolkata has always been the Mecca of Bengali culture that celebrates theatre. So did British India. It had a culture that still fascinates artists, historians and writers across the world. Since 1694, the port city of Calcutta, had British East India Company (EIC) exporting materials
I knew Sunil Gangopadhyay’s novel had that power to give voice to the words and feelings of millions of Bengalis across the globe. So, it was a self-imposed responsibility of producing it into a Television Series. Though I knew it would be a very difficult
The date 21st February has a special significance in my life, just like it has in the history of my mother tongue Bengali. The two sides of Padma witnessed the start of the first ever television series engaging artists and technicians of both sides of