Rakasree Basu has always been a fan of Saswata Chatterjee. Be it as Tutti Futti in Jagga Jasoos, or Bob Biswas in Shobor, Chatterjee has always been Basu’s favourite actor. So no wonder when this Mumbai based producer, decided to make a children’s movie, instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-AWCj9Chc Rinki Roy Bhattacharya has cinema in her veins, daughter of Bimal Roy, she married Basu Bhattacharya and collaborated on his films. Her book, The Man Who Spoke in Pictures, shows Roy’s spare storytelling and nuanced understanding of the human condition that are reflected in classics
Actor writer and director, Biplab Dasgupta, remembers his onscreen ‘girlfriend’ Supriya Devi. GB Exclusive tribute to the actress. I was her onscreen boyfriend in the hit Bengali mega serial Kuasha Jokhon. Undoubtedly, it was like a dream come true for me, as I could never imagine
As India reels under hooliganism over the release of the movie Padmavat, Bengal has again proved it was far ahead of the rest of India. When 21st century India is impacted by release of a movie, whose protagonist is a queen, a fictional character rather
A film festival and photo exhibition with a difference is starting today in Kolkata marking the Bangladesh Vijay Diwas or the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. It will continue till January 8 and will be hosted by Bangladesh’s ministry of information. Among the various films that
After years of anticipation, fans of Professor Shonku can heave a sigh of relief as the cult character created by Satyajit Ray, will grace cinema screens at last. And this time round Professor Shonku visits El Dorado! The film is based on Ray’s story, Nokur
Journalist Shuvra Dey dissects Saibal Mitra’s Chitrokor – Last Mural and discovers the heart-wrenching story of eternal strife of Art vs Commerce Saibal Mitra’s latest offering on celluloid, Chitrokor – Last Mural was released recently. Written and directed by Mitra, the very title of the movie
Argentine director Pablo Cesar’s new film Thinking of Him, an Indo-Argentine co-production, will be screened on November 28, as the closing film of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which begins on November 20 at Goa. The film explores the relationship between iconic Indian
‘You are never better than your last project.’ This is an old adage in the film industry and who knows it better than the master of the craft, Jean-Luc Godard (born on December 3, 1930) himself? The Franco-Swiss filmmaker and a leading member of the
Abhradip Ghatak may not be a very familiar name but this independent docu-film maker from Jalpaiguri is a gutsy man who works hard and dreams big. His latest work, Anandadhara Reloaded, a seven-minute short film, might just be his magic key to enter the realm