Srijit Mukherjee’s Ek Je Chhilo Raja won the Best Bengali Film Award this year, while Indraadip Dasgupta’s Kedara won the special Jury Award. Dasgupta was ecstatic with the win. He is also happy as Arijit Singh won the Best Male Playback singer award for Binte
Did scandals and affairs splashed on cine-magazines of Mumbai and Kolkata impact Kishore Kumar? Well, no. The genius remained unaffected. He would ignore gossips and remain stoically calm. However, there were times when he was hounded by over-enthusiastic members of the film fraternity or prying
The new movie on the block – Samsara, releases today. In an exclusive interview, Sudiptaa Chakraborty, one of the most versatile actresses of modern times, tells GB about her role to journalist Saheli Mitra. She also shares her experience of shooting at remote Meghalaya and
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
I still remember 22 July 1986, I was in school then. We heard actress Mahua Roychowdhury was no more. Entire Bengal followed her news for 10 days as she lay half burnt in Calcutta Hospital, writhing in pain. And the doctors finally failed. She was
Remember Shashi Babu from Arogya Niketan? While talking about actor Kali Banerjee, the first thing that strikes us are the versatile and timeless characters he portrayed. Be it Joysingha from Bisarjan, Shashi babu from Arogya Niketan, Kashim from Louhakopat, Bimal of Ajantrik, Banowari from Hashulibager
A moment of great honour and happiness for the entire team of Nagarkirtan as the film bagged 4 prestigious awards at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Film Festival 2019. The story revolves around a transwoman and a flautist. The movie bagged the
Aponjon’s Rabi is no more! That carefree soul, who went on to help the entire neighbourhood and was the symbol of the angry youth of the ’60s. Every expression of Swarup Dutta, be it his charming smile, his casual yet suave looks or even the
‘E porobasheyrobe ke’ in Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Kanchenjunga? Picturised on actress Karuna Bandyopadhyay, many of us are not aware that though the movie was not a commercial success, it had a greater impact behind the scenes. For it did bring out a rare talent from
Are you acquainted with the term gotra? It is a Sanskrit word which is synonymous to clan and refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male patriline. After the overwhelming response of Konttho, the director duo Shiboprosad Mukherjee