Ramananda Sengupta was the last of the surviving pioneers from the Studio era of the 1930s and 40s. He is probably …
Incomplete Films: Gouri
It was to be India’s first film in CinemaScope had it been completed. Sometime around 1956, Guru Dutt had tested …
RIP Sumita Sanyal (1945-2017)…
I was introduced to her as Manju, shortened from her original name – Manjula Sanyal. She had come to our …
Padatik
Sumit (Dhritiman Chatterjee), an ideologue of an extremist left-wing party, escapes from police custody. Thanks to his party boss Nikhilda’s …
Asamapta
Asamapta is an adaptation of a novel called Aschorjo Bhromon (Strange Journey) by Shirsendu Mukhopadhyay. Asamapta means ‘incomplete” or “unfinished”, …
Black Coffee
Srabani (Paoli Dam) is an actress who finds herself featuring in a film being directed by Tirtharaj Roy (Saswata Chatterjee) …
Bengali Cinema Round-Up, 2016
For the past eight years there has been no credible body in West Bengal, to honour and award the work …
Kiriti Roy
Like Byomkesh Bakshi created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay, Kiriti Roy is a noted detective created by Nihar Ranjan Gupta, a dermatologist …
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 …