Set during the period just before World War II, Ganadevata, is the saga of Shibkalipur, a small village on the banks …
Subarnarekha
Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya) along with his friend Haraprasad (Bijon Bhattacharya) and his family, arrive in Calcutta from East Pakistan, …
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 …
Banchha Elo Phire
It needs great guts to make a directorial debut with what claims to be a ‘sequel’ to Tapan Sinha’s classic …
Calcutta ’71
Calcutta ’71 is a compilation of 4 different stories on theme of poverty and its consequences as observed by a …
Madhabi Mukherjee
Even if the only role she ever played was the title role in Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Charulata (1964), Madhabi Mukherjee …
Mahanagar
Middle-class clerk Subrata Majumdar (Anil Chatterjee) pursuades his wife Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee) to take a job as a saleswoman as …
Dus Numbri – Incredible Female Performances
As part of the features section on Upperstall, I have been trying to start a series on Ten Best or …
Charulata
Calcutta 1879. Bhupati Dutta (Sailen Mukherjee), a wealthy intellectual edits and publishes a political weekly in English called ‘The Sentinel.’ …