Pratima Devi, unsung talent of Tagore household brought to limelight by Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee
‘No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: The purpose of light is to create more light
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STONEMAN, Urban Legend of Calcutta! Revisiting the city’s sensational Crime Stories!
I Know What You Did Last Summer! But none of the Calcuttans knew who the serial killer of 1989’s Calcutta street murders was and what he was doing that summer! We were then school children, quite young, and the palpable terror of a killer lurking
After 43 years, Sarat Chandra Chatterji’s Datta is being remade
It is almost a century ago that author Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay had written his famous novel Datta. Based on the rift between Hindus and Brahmos, the novel is not just about a love triangle, but also reflected the social conditions of the then rural Bengal.
Aparna Sen’s Ghware Baire Aaj is just an armchair political statement
Sunday noon at a popular multiplex, two days into its release and almost the whole movie hall was empty! That itself came as a rude shock as I went with a lot of hope as director Aparna Sen was back with a new movie. Specially
Tagore’s Ghare Baire was powerful, has Aparna Sen lived up to it in Ghawre Baire Aaj?
It says it is a modern adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire, the powerful short story playing around three characters – Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala in the backdrop of the Swadeshi Movement. But Tagore’s story is not just another love triangle. Rather it had that
KIFF celebrates Children’s Day with ‘Child’ movies
Kolkata International Film Festival is all geared up to celebrate Children’s Day today. They have slotted several Children’s movies since morning. The venue is Sisir Mancha. You can take your children for world class children’s movies including The Search, Fairy Falls (2pm), and also some
Showcasing 2,300-year-old Chandraketugarh and its Muslin trade in Australia
Chandraketugarh is a 2300-year-old archaeological site located about 35 kilometres north-east of Kolkata. The site is located in a region that is still know for cotton weaving. It is a well-known historical fact that fine form of cotton or mousseline or muslin or malmal is
Rakhee Gulzar’s new movie Nirban being screened at KIFF
Our hazel eyed Bong beauty who had dominated the silver screen in Bollywood over decades will come over to Kolkata to be at the screening of her recent movie Nirban. This Goutam Halder bilingual movie that took almost seven years to complete is one of
GB KIFF SPECIAL: Celebrating 100 years of Jahar Roy
It was an early morning, decades ago, when a roly-poly comic actor set his foot at Naresh Chandra Mitra’s house on Beltala Road. Naresh Mitra was an eminent director of those times and a well-known actor who rubbed shoulders with stalwarts like Shishir Bhaduri. The
How Andie MacDowell, Sex, Lies & Videotape star prepared for her Kolkata trip?
Andie MacDowell, a name that had rocked an entire generation and movies like Sex, Lies & Videotape had taken all by the horns and set exemplary screen shows in Hollywood. No wonder at the KIFF inauguration even King Khan, Shah Rukh was direct in professing
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