Char Adhyay (Four Chapters), written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1934, is a controversial novel and perhaps, the most challenging of …
Saptapadi
Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu (Uttam Kumar) runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman …
Power
The best thing about any brazenly forthright commercial film where the star is the protagonist, the script, the dialogue, the …
Shankhachil
Shankhachil is a story of the physical and emotional journey of a family along the Indo-Bangladesh border and is also a …
Ghare Baire
In 1905, pursuing the colonial policy of Divide and Rule, Lord Curzon, the then-Viceroy of India, proposed the splitting up …
Naam Poribortito
The high incidence of casteist rape, incestuous rape, marital rape and communal rape in India against the backdrop of a …
9 No Peara Bagan Lane
Based on an original story called , Aandhaare Ektu Aalo by noted author Shaktipada Rajguru (author of Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara), …
What Is Wrong With Contemporary Bengali Cinema?
“What is wrong with contemporary Bengali cinema” is a question based on the understanding that everything else is right whatever …
Sohra Bridge
Basically, the story of late director Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s Sohra Bridge – about a daughter coming from Kolkata looking for her …
Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee
Is it not one of the most surprising things about Indian cinema in general and Bengali cinema in particular that …