Subrata Mitra is regarded as perhaps the greatest ever Indian cinematographer, who revolutionised prevailing aesthetics in Indian Cinema with innovations …
Ray’s Real Women
The women characters in Satyajit Ray’s films are not perfect women of unquestioned and unquestioning virtue and this one quality …
Dulal Dutta
Director-editor relationships play a significant role in bringing out a finished film in terms of technique perfectly matched between the …
I’m The Very Beautiful
At an Alliance Francaise festival of documentaries last year, I chose to go on the day devoted to ‘Love and …
Boi Dekha!
I think easily the best thing to come out of being content-in-charge of Upperstall has been my exposure to Indian …
Ek Nodir Galpo
Is strict fidelity to the original literary source possible? Or is it even necessary? Should we, as viewers, take fidelity …
Preview Of Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s The Voyeurs: Ami, Yasin ar Amar Madhubala
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s new film, The Voyeurs: Ami, Yasin ar Amar Madhubala has just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. …
Apur Sansar
Kolkata 1930; Apu/Apurba Kumar Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) has quit college due to financial problems. He leads a precarious existence but …
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray is perhaps the most well known Indian filmmaker to the Western World and inarguably among the dozen or …
Aparajito
Varanasi (Kashi) 1920; Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) and his mother, Sarbojaya (Karuna Bannerjee), live in this holiest of the holy cities, …