In 2008 when my sister was touring Japan, I asked her to carry DVDs of Yasujiro Ozu’s films. On her …
Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey belongs to that rare breed of actors who not only strode successfully across every performing platform from the …
Tulsi Chakraborty
Tulsi Chakraborty is undoubtedly one of the finest comic and character actors to have graced the Bengali screen. In a …
Jalsaghar
1920s India. Bishwambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas) is the last in a line of zamindars who flourished in Bengal in the …
Nayak
Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar), a matinee idol of the Bengali film industry, undertakes a train journey from Calcutta to Delhi …
Madhabi Mukherjee
Even if the only role she ever played was the title role in Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Charulata (1964), Madhabi Mukherjee …
Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore is a star and an actress who blends the rare quality of dignity and glamour, style and attitude, …
Mahanagar
Middle-class clerk Subrata Majumdar (Anil Chatterjee) pursuades his wife Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee) to take a job as a saleswoman as …
Reading Ray
Reading Ray has always been as delightful as watching his films, be it fiction or his articles on cinema. His …
Chhabi Biswas
Satyajit Ray once remarked, “I doubt if I could ever make the film Jalsaghar without an actor of the calibre …