Shankar is a young greenhorn who stumbles into a job behind the reception desk of the elite Shahjahan Hotel. He looks around in awe as he tries to get a foothold when he is assigned his first task: type out 50 breakfast menu cards. Jimmy,
Professor Shonku aka Trilokeshwar Shonku is an extremely popular fictional genius scientist and inventor created by Satyajit Ray published since 1965. When film director Sandip Ray decided to make a film based on Professor Shonku’s adventures, he zeroed in on Nakur Babu o El Dorado.
It was a summer afternoon when I suddenly received a call from director Anik Dutta. He is a senior from my college, St Xavier’s, and I had known him for quite some time. I always admired his work and had shared my interest in working
Once the sexy queen, the prima donna of tinsel town, she reigned the glamorous Tollywood film industry, albeit for a brief period, before she suddenly decided to disappear from public view. Her fans waited, they pined and fretted for her return but she had chosen
Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani was not just another thriller, it was a thriller with a Kolkata connect. It had set Vidya Balan apart as the undercover agent in the guise of a pregnant woman. But another actor who set the tables to a superior height was
Bollywood heartthrob Aamir Khan has landed in Kolkata to do an extensive shooting on Howrah Bridge for the upcoming movie ‘Laal Singh Chadda.’ Another hero Ajay Devgn had also done extensive shooting for Amit Sharma movie Maidan recently in Kolkata as it is based on
Apu is back again. That iconic character created by author Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and given a new dimension in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959). The next step to that famous ‘Apu Trilogy’ is returning to the big screen again. Directed
I self-published my poem in a cinematic form and that’s how “If they all met at Pushkin cafe” came into being in 2018. After a year long in-depth research I thought to start a literary conversation between three well known Russian poets and writers who
It is almost a century ago that author Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay had written his famous novel Datta. Based on the rift between Hindus and Brahmos, the novel is not just about a love triangle, but also reflected the social conditions of the then rural Bengal.
Sunday noon at a popular multiplex, two days into its release and almost the whole movie hall was empty! That itself came as a rude shock as I went with a lot of hope as director Aparna Sen was back with a new movie. Specially