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 …