The intellectual capital of India is gearing up for the Kolkata International Film Festival 2019 and this year the theme country is Germany. It is honour for Kolkata to be hosting famous Oscar-winning German filmmaker and director Volker Schlondorff who will be inaugurating the festival.
Kolkata International Film Festival 2019 (KIFF) is round the corner and the intellectual capital of India is truly gearing up for a major show. But this year the organisers will bring in a new magic, the magic of Celluloid format movies. As many as 12
A near-complete retrospective of the visionary Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s career, will be featured at the prestigious Lincoln Center between November 1-6. The career of director, writer, and actor Ritwik Ghatak was one of constant struggle and as his contemporary Satyajit Ray had once said,
What has world-renowned handwriting expert Carl Baggett say about Gumnai Baba’s letters? Take a look! Whether recluse sadhu Gumnami Baba was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose or not is an old mystery that have been spoken of in various literature. But here is a new twist to
While making Kolkata Cocktail, I kept on remembering that famous quote of legendary film-maker Kurosawa. He had said: “I make films because it is the only form of art where every type of art is mingled together.” For me poetry is that new art form,
Fables are always a kid’s favourite and so are fantasy movies. Fantasy movies based on folk tales are now an attractive section of the film industry with a great appeal to children and their learning years. Nitish Roy’s dream project ‘Buddhu Bhutum’s trailer and poster
Imagine a 60-year-old Sabyasachi Chakraborty playing the role of Feluda at the age of 60! Well, he did it and he did it with elan. Though the fictional sleuth created by Satyajit Ray was actually a young detective, suave, smart and intelligent. But Sabyasachi matched
Some movies are immortalized, through story telling and some by real life actors, who portray the characters with so much of passion and intensity, that they remain sketched down generations. One such role is that of Pather Panchali’s Sarbajaya. It is said author Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
A week before Uttam Kumar died on July 24, 1980, he had wanted to meet ‘his Rama,’ actress Suchitra Sen who has often been compared to Hollywood’s recluse Greta Garbo. He called her after watching the movie ‘Alo Aamaar Alo’ on TV, but Suchitra Sen
Dhurjati Prasad Chaudhuri is an academician and ex-professor of management science. He is also an avid photographer Remember that hilarious Bengali movie Sharey Chuattor (সাড়ে ৭৪)? The budding romance under the glare of a Kolkata mess bari, between Uttam Kumar as Rampriti and Suchitra Sen as