One of a handful of filmmakers who represented the now decadent off mainstream Indian cinema, Buddhadeb Dasgupta has consistently tried …
Personally Yours, Satyajit Ray
Like most people, my cinematic journey of filmmaker Satyajit Ray began with the first of his now immortal Apu trilogy, …
Hiralal: The Uncredited Role
Hiralal: The Uncredited Role, in the making for quite some time, is just Arun Roy’s third film in a period …
Avijatrik: The Wanderlust Of Apu
More than sixty years after Apur Sansar (1959), the final film of Satyajit Ray’s masterful Apu trilogy, filmmaker Subhrajit Mitra …
Meghe Dhaka Tara
In the late 1950s, a refugee family from East Bengal, victims of the Partition, struggle for survival on the outskirts …
Soumitra Chatterjee
The greatest ever Director-Actor collaberations in world cinema have included Akira Kurosawa-Toshiro Mifune, Federico Fellini-Marcello Mastroianni, Martin Scorcese-Robert De Niro …
The Incessant Transformations In The Cinema Of Ritwik Ghatak
This article is in celebration of my teacher’s 95th birth anniversary, which falls today on November 4th, 2020. The earth …
Shironam
National Award-winning production designer Indranil Ghosh makes his directorial debut with an action-filled narrative, Shironam, which means ‘headlines’. In the guise …
Going In Circles With Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray’s famous children’s film, Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), has a fascinating segment known as ‘Bhooter Naach’ or the Dance …
Atasi
In an on-camera interview in 2015, filmmaker Putul Mahmood had said that it all depends on what a film is …