‘Ashwiner sharodo praatey…Beje utheche aloko monjir’ Remember that deep baritone voice that have woken up Bengalis since ages during Mahalaya? Birendra Krishna Bhadra is synonymous to Mahalaya for decades. His rendition of Mahisasura Mardini has been one memory that has been simply untarnished down generations.
He not only discovered the first invitro fertilization technique of India, under him the first test tube baby of India Durga was born in 1978. But Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay of Kolkata never got his due recognition. On the contrary his feat was ridiculed at by
Famous illustrator Shilpa Ranade came together with even more famous Gulzar to bring the animated version of Goopi Gayen Bagha Bayen to the larger audience. Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya happens to be the Hindi translation of Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury’s famous tales that was immortalized
Some love do not get the scope of ending in hope. It turns out to die a violent end, just like Parimal’s did. Parimalis a woman trapped in a man’s body and cannot cope with the trauma of his truth being not accepted. Thus the
Remember that tall and slim hill face in Laal Kuthi? Yes, we are speaking of our very own Danny Denzongpa, who at times was the friendly uncle singing Karo noigo aami… Keu amar noy to a child or at times in the role of a
Jisshu Sengupta is almost 100 films old today. But what sets him apart from many of his generation, is his foray into Bollywood and how he plays important though brief roles in some of the best blockbusters of India. Remember his portrayal of Ileana D’Cruz’s
Ever wondered about how the journey of Apu - the central protagonist of the Apu Trilogy, came to an end? Since childhood, we have perennially been in love with ‘Apu’- the boy of Aam aantir Bhenpu and his gradual transformation caught on celluloid as Satyajit
He was Rohini da in Abhaya Srikanto… the man whose subtle love for a married yet tortured woman, led him to take her in search of her husband to the distant land of Burma. Rohini da breaks all social protocols, yet his body language expresses
Ever heard the winds whistle through the rugged terrains of the Himalayas, far away in Ladakh and Nubra? Ever felt the yearning of a child who wishes to study in a land where gathering food is more important than books? You get a chance to
1969. That’s half a century ago. Bollywood, let alone Bengali Cineworld was not even mature enough to accept a high level of testosterone on screen in that era. Even 50 years later in 2019, our idea of eroticism between a man and a woman either