Kumar Shahani is a filmmaker who has been able to carve an aesthetic path and create a new cinematic language …
Kanan Devi
Kanan Devi was among the early singing stars and her singing style, usually in rapid tempo, was instrumental in some …
Sandhya Roy
Sandhya Roy is perhaps one of the most under-rated actresses in Bengali cinema in spite of having given some truly …
Pahari Sanyal
Pahari Sanyal was without doubt one of the finest actors that both, Bengali and Hindi cinema have seen. He was …
Ghulam Haider
Ghulam Haider revolutionalized the face of the Hindi Film song and laid the foundation for the Hindi film song as …
Parveen Babi
Well-known Bollywood leading lady of the 1970s and early 1980s, Parveen Babi’s name has always been taken along with Zeenat …
K Viswanath
As a film professor who teaches film appreciation, I am often asked, “Is there any filmmaker you do not criticize? …
Ellis R Dungan
An American cinematographer, born in Ohio on May 11, 1909, an alumnus of University of Southern California’s first batch of …
Chidananda Dasgupta
The film critic in India is marginalized within the world of journalists in general and critics in particular. The investigative …
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee is considered as one of the best actors to have emerged in the Bengali cinema during the early …