Of late, there has been a slew of films featuring the ‘feminist voice’ cleverly wrapped in different wrappers such as …
Trapped
Trapped is a survival film. They are reasonably good commercial ventures when the challenge is taken collectively by an entire …
Sonar Baran Pakhi
Sonar Baran Pakhi (The Golden Wing) is a tight-knit, well-scripted feature film based on the life and times of the …
Asamapta
Asamapta is an adaptation of a novel called Aschorjo Bhromon (Strange Journey) by Shirsendu Mukhopadhyay. Asamapta means ‘incomplete” or “unfinished”, …
Black Coffee
Srabani (Paoli Dam) is an actress who finds herself featuring in a film being directed by Tirtharaj Roy (Saswata Chatterjee) …
Gita Sen
There is no brief on her in Wikepedia anywhere. Nor does her name figure in Wikepedia’s detailed bio on her …
Bengali Cinema Round-Up, 2016
For the past eight years there has been no credible body in West Bengal, to honour and award the work …
Kiriti Roy
Like Byomkesh Bakshi created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay, Kiriti Roy is a noted detective created by Nihar Ranjan Gupta, a dermatologist …
Haripada Bandwala
Haripada Bandwala is a remake of 2014 Punjabi comedy film Disco Singh, which itself was loosely based on the 2009 Bollywood film Do Knot Disturb which in turn was …
Benche Thakar Gaan
Benche Thakar Gaan was the inaugural film at the recently concluded 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival, the first ever Bengali …