Even if the only role she ever played was the title role in Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Charulata (1964), Madhabi Mukherjee …
Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen was easily the most popular actress that Bengali Cinema has ever seen. Her ethereal beauty coupled with her …
Subrata Mitra
Subrata Mitra is regarded as perhaps the greatest ever Indian cinematographer, who revolutionised prevailing aesthetics in Indian Cinema with innovations …
New Theatres: A Cinematic Equivalence of Literature
New Theatres, a Kolkata based film studio, was one of the premier filmmaking institutions that promoted cinema as art and …
Dulal Dutta
Director-editor relationships play a significant role in bringing out a finished film in terms of technique perfectly matched between the …
Boi Dekha!
I think easily the best thing to come out of being content-in-charge of Upperstall has been my exposure to Indian …
2008: Bengali Cinema’s Rocking!
Bengali cinema has never seen such a flood of releases within one year as it did in 2008. The year …
Ek Nodir Galpo
Is strict fidelity to the original literary source possible? Or is it even necessary? Should we, as viewers, take fidelity …
Festival-Krrazzy Kolkata
Cold shoulders. Plastic smiles cut-and-pasted from glossy toothpaste ads. See-through eyes. Smouldering looks. Conversations generously peppered with names like Bunuel, …
Preview Of Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s The Voyeurs: Ami, Yasin ar Amar Madhubala
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s new film, The Voyeurs: Ami, Yasin ar Amar Madhubala has just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. …