Tapan Sinha is the quintessential Bengali filmmaker in spirit and world-view. In a long and prolific career spanning almost five …
Pankaj Mullick
Composer, musician, audio innovator, singer, music director, teacher and a part-time actor Pankaj Mullick is a colossal figure not only …
Chhabi Biswas
Satyajit Ray once remarked, “I doubt if I could ever make the film Jalsaghar without an actor of the calibre …
Bansi Chandragupta
Bansi Chandragupta is the person who not just changed the very look of Bengali films but his influence as the …
New Theatres: A Cinematic Equivalence of Literature
New Theatres, a Kolkata based film studio, was one of the premier filmmaking institutions that promoted cinema as art and …
Cinemaya II
“Sir, will you be kind enough to let us have a look at the photos of our vegetable garden?” Lily …
A Rammy Tale
A long time ago, 1994 it was. I was in Arunachal Pradesh co-directing a documentary on eco-forestry along with a …
A Servant of the Poor
A few months ago, I had gone to the villages of Birbhum district, West Bengal on a recce trip for …
Of Borders and Holy Cows
I. It is afternoon and I am sitting on a small embankment by the river Bhagirathi – a branch of …
Cinemaya I
Wisdom, it is said, is bestowed upon you when you least expect it… It was early evening; the western sky …