Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya) along with his friend Haraprasad (Bijon Bhattacharya) and his family, arrive in Calcutta from East Pakistan, …
Ray
Ray, based on the short stories by legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray and currently streaming on Netflix, is a stylishly shot …
Sherni
Midway into Amit Masurkar’s third feature film Sherni (2021), streaming on Prime Video, Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan) meets Saiprasad (Gopal Dutt), her …
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
One of a handful of filmmakers who represented the now decadent off mainstream Indian cinema, Buddhadeb Dasgupta has consistently tried …
Revisiting Samskara…
The very mention of Samskara (Funeral Rites) invariably invokes the name of its late writer, the firebrand UR Ananthamurthy. So …
Dithee
The importance of seeing the world deeply is at the heart of the late Sumitra Bhave’s Marathi film, Dithee (2019), currently …
Director’s Note: Adhura
It was March of 2019. I had just completed shooting my first-year final film at the Prague Film School (PFS). …
Meel Patthar
Ivan Ayr’s Meel Patthar (2020), currently streaming on Netflix, is that rare Indian film of purity and purpose made in recent …
Personally Yours, Satyajit Ray
Like most people, my cinematic journey of filmmaker Satyajit Ray began with the first of his now immortal Apu trilogy, …
The Disciple
Minimal in form, rich in detail, and unsparing in its verdict, Tamhane’s telling of the tale gently but firmly peels …