Haripada Bandwala

Haripada Bandwala is a remake of 2014 Punjabi comedy film Disco Singh, which itself was loosely based on the 2009 Bollywood film Do Knot Disturb which in turn was …

Benche Thakar Gaan

Benche Thakar Gaan was the inaugural film at the recently concluded 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival, the first ever Bengali …

Aradi

“Six feet of earth makes us all equal” says an old Proverb, but in Indian society that is not for sure; …

Banchha Elo Phire

It needs great guts to make a directorial debut with what claims to be a ‘sequel’ to Tapan Sinha’s classic …

Chhoo Mantar

This 1958 Pakistani film, made in Punjabi and directed by Mushtaq Hafiz, is an extremely tacky and a pretty blatant yet bland …

The Bard In Bengali Films

William Shakespeare’s representation on Indian film has mainly focussed on the Pan-Indian identity of his works on celluloid. Not many …

Gangster

“Smoking is injurious to health. It causes cancer.” Gangster, a doomed love story triggered and filled with a lot of …

Chocolate

Chocolate seems to be the flavour of some Bengali filmmakers these days. Soon after Dark Chocolate, which was a dark …

Thodari

Prabu Solomon gets it all wrong with Thodari, his weakest film by far. What should have been an enjoyable train …

Love Express

Laal (Dev) belongs to a strict house-hold where they believe in disowning a family member if he/she commits more than …