Amartya Bhattacharya is a techie of Infosys who also happens to be a National Award winning film-maker. But hardly any of us in Bengal know his name, for he has made more movies in Odia than in Bengali. He opens up his heart to GB
Their association in Bollywood dates back to 1971, when they were first cast in Reshma aur Shera directed by none other than Sunil Dutt. Since then, they have done eleven films together which was lapped up by the audience. Yes, we are speaking of Amitabh
Anyone who has read the book Manojder Advut Bari by veteran author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay knows what a gem of a comedy literature it is! It not just throws you into a crazy world of a young boy Manoj and his family, but it also follows
‘Highhhhlyyy Sussspicious…’ that stress on the ‘S’ made all the difference as Jatayu aka Lal Mohan Ganguly (also pronounced in an anglicized style) tried to express his thoughts to Feluda in Sonar Kella. Rather should we say the manner in which veteran comedian Santosh Dutta
Premiered in 2017 at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and then travelling across continents, from Moscow to Vancouver to Egypt, movie Doob has always grabbed the spotlight. Not just for its controversy on getting certification, but also because it has finally got its due worth.
Kolkata will host a unique Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop (FPRWI) from November 15 to November 22 this year. A city that is known as the mecca of internationally acclaimed film makers and equally erudite intellectual audience, Kolkata has always looked beyond just ‘watching movies
What has journalist-cum-activist Gauri Lankesh’s murder to do with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire? Well, there lies an uncanny link indeed, as it was that very night, when ace actor and director Aparna Sen had a dream. May be disturbed by the news of the murder,
Fragrance of Shiuli flowers strewn on a morning path or sailing white clouds in the autumn sky… quintessential images of a Bengal autumn that speak of the arrival of Maa Durga… these images never came to my mind when I was a child. We were
‘Tumi dushtu lok’… (He is an evil man)… that’s what teary-eyed Mukul said when Mandar Bose killed a peacock with a shot. And may be that one shot in the end of the movie had lots to speak. So, did the wonder laced look of
• Why did you choose a topic like menopausefor the movie and how was it conceptualised? My Director and I were having a coffee cup conversation one day planning about our next venture when we realized it’s perhaps high time to start featuring women centric plots