Apur Sansar

Kolkata 1930; Apu/Apurba Kumar Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) has quit college due to financial problems. He leads a precarious existence but …

Kannathil Muthamittal

So you go see the recent over-hyped, keyed up, inescapable films whose in-your-face campaigns are plastered all over your cityscape, …

Director’s Note: UnLimited Girls

While we were making UnLimited Girls, a researcher, interviewing me asked, “so would you say you are a feminist filmmaker?” The question alarmed …

Aparajito

Varanasi (Kashi) 1920; Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) and his mother, Sarbojaya (Karuna Bannerjee), live in this holiest of the holy cities, …

Kandukondain Kandukondain

Kandukondain Kandukondain, directed by Rajiv Menon, is a fine effort and comes across as a refreshing change from the formulaic …

Charulata

Calcutta 1879. Bhupati Dutta (Sailen Mukherjee), a wealthy intellectual edits and publishes a political weekly in English called ‘The Sentinel.’ …

Pather Panchali

Life in the village of Nischindipur is viewed through the eyes of Apu (Subir Banerjee) and Durga (Uma Das Gupta), …

Blessed By The Plague

Blessed by the Plague is a thought-provoking documentary, shot on digital video, that puts on record the astounding change in Surat …