On 1st November, 1895, the Skladanowsky brothers screened their first ever film in the Berlin Variety Theatre, the Wintergarten. The …
Shaheb, Bibi, Golaam
There is possibly no such thing as a pure freestanding “thriller thriller” and this comes across lucidly in film critic …
Mahasweta Devi On Celluloid
Mahasweta Devi, who passed away on July 28, 2016 at the ripe old age of 90, will never have competition …
Eagoler Chokh
Eagoler Chokh means ‘the eye of the eagle’, which is a metaphor for the police detective, Shabar Dasgupta (Saswata Chatterjee), …
Ismat Chughtai
The phrase Revolutionary Feminist Politics, so fashionable today within creative fiction and non-fiction in all languages, did not exist in …
Khawto
Touted as an erotic thriller, there is an element of the erotic in Khawto but very little of the thriller. Perhaps it could …
Ardhangini: Ek Ardhsayta
The debutant director Reema Mukherjee claims that Ardhangini – Ek Ardhasatya is inspired from Tagore’s novel Ghare Baire, adapted by …
Dilip Gupta
It is sad that the contribution of people in the world of cinema, who operate behind the camera and remain …
Shororipu
Ayan Chakroborti makes his directorial debut with this film, which is as confusing as its title and the director’s mysterious …
Dhanak
Dhanak, meaning ‘rainbow’ is a film with children as the protagonists but which adults will also enjoy and learn from. …