Ma left me very silently. She just concealed herself somewhere, away from us. I was at that moment mid-air, returning to Kolkata from Mumbai. My brother was in Kolkata, may be was busy with his work. Baba was alone at home then. Ma left her companion,
It was probably one of the most powerful acting of Shashi Kapoor’s wife Jennifer Kendal Kapoor as the old Anglo Indian woman living in Kolkata. 36 Chowringhee Lane was also a directorial debut for Aparna Sen. The film was very well received upon release. The movie
Scene 1: Bhanu Bandopadhyay enacting the role of Bachal on stage. The Dhaka audience mesmerized watching the play Chandragupta. But one person in the audience applauds the most! After all, one of his dear and best students Bhanu is on stage in a new avatar!
For all those who lived in Calcutta in the ’60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, had a tryst with Bangla Natok or theatre that was so enriched in that era, that there would be queues before the ticket counter to buy tickets for the first show. And
Veteran actor Soumitro Chatterjee who was suffering from pneumonia and was admitted to a hospital on the EM Bypass on 13th August has been released today. Thankfully the 84-year-old actor is doing well and has been asked by his doctors to take rest at home
Saswata Chatterjee has on and off proved what a great actor he is through a variety of movies. The audience had first got a touch of that superb acting in his role as Bob Biswas, the villain. Now he has won the hearts of the
Rudranil Ghosh had indeed proved his talent in Vinci da. Yet most directors usually took him in side-roles that hardly had much of an importance. Rudranil Ghosh himself had expected more probably from Tollywood. However, he has now been picked up by Bollywood and that
Veteran actor and our all time favourite Soumitro Chatterjee had been admitted to Ruby General Hospital this morning with severe respiratory distress. Doctors said he is suffering from pneumonia and had to be kept in the ICU. A medical board has been made with four well
• How are you feeling at this huge success of your movie Season’s Greetings being the first feature film to get a collaboration from UN? This is definitely a huge step for any Indian cinema to get an official support from an internationally acclaimed organisation like
Bengali film Runanubandha (The HE without HIM) has won the Best Editing award at the Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival 2019 of Canada. The film, that was edited by director Amartya Bhattacharyya was part of the ‘Courageous Cinema’ section. This film had earlier premiered