“Smoking is injurious to health. It causes cancer.” Gangster, a doomed love story triggered and filled with a lot of …
Chocolate
Chocolate seems to be the flavour of some Bengali filmmakers these days. Soon after Dark Chocolate, which was a dark …
Love Express
Laal (Dev) belongs to a strict house-hold where they believe in disowning a family member if he/she commits more than …
Shaheb, Bibi, Golaam
There is possibly no such thing as a pure freestanding “thriller thriller” and this comes across lucidly in film critic …
Harano Sur
An amnesiac after a train accident, Alok Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar), is rescued on escaping from the asylum, where he is …
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), …
Khawto
Touted as an erotic thriller, there is an element of the erotic in Khawto but very little of the thriller. Perhaps it could …
The (Non) Release Of Cosmic Sex
Cosmic Sex (2015), directed by Amitabh Chakraborty and produced by Putul Mahmood, is an independent Bengali feature film about the …
Shororipu
Ayan Chakroborti makes his directorial debut with this film, which is as confusing as its title and the director’s mysterious …