A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is also a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that trapezes around magic-realistically, …
Chitrakar
Chitrakar raises questions about how anyone and everyone during the post-modern era can become an artist. Why do many of …
Doob
Feature films from India and Bangladesh finding recognition and sometimes even awards at International Film Festivals does not necessarily mean …
Yeti Obhijaan
Yeti Obhijaan is an adventure-thriller adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s popular Kakababu series for children. Kakababu or Raja Roy Choudhury (Prosenjit), …
Maacher Jhol
The most amazing thing has happened to Bengali cinema. A film named Maacher Jhol is releasing across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, …
Ramananda Sengupta
Ramananda Sengupta was the last of the surviving pioneers from the Studio era of the 1930s and 40s. He is probably …
Incomplete Films: Gouri
It was to be India’s first film in CinemaScope had it been completed. Sometime around 1956, Guru Dutt had tested …
RIP Sumita Sanyal (1945-2017)…
I was introduced to her as Manju, shortened from her original name – Manjula Sanyal. She had come to our …
Mandobasar Galpo
Mandobasar Galpo is a psychological thriller where everything is shrouded in a thin veil of mystery, a veil that you …
Asamapta
Asamapta is an adaptation of a novel called Aschorjo Bhromon (Strange Journey) by Shirsendu Mukhopadhyay. Asamapta means ‘incomplete” or “unfinished”, …