The women characters in Satyajit Ray’s films are not perfect women of unquestioned and unquestioning virtue and this one quality …
Bansi Chandragupta
Bansi Chandragupta is the person who not just changed the very look of Bengali films but his influence as the …
Devi
1860 Chandipur, rural Bengal. Doyamoyee (Sharmila Tagore) and her husband, Umaprasad (Soumitra Chatterjee), live with his elder brother, Tarapada (Purnendu …
Dulal Dutta
Director-editor relationships play a significant role in bringing out a finished film in terms of technique perfectly matched between the …
If it’s Indian cinema, it must be Bollywood!
Recently, there has been a flurry of articles all over on Southern cinema heroes, in particular, Vikram, Suriya and Rana …
Apur Sansar
Kolkata 1930; Apu/Apurba Kumar Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) has quit college due to financial problems. He leads a precarious existence but …
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray is perhaps the most well known Indian filmmaker to the Western World and inarguably among the dozen or …
Aparajito
Varanasi (Kashi) 1920; Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) and his mother, Sarbojaya (Karuna Bannerjee), live in this holiest of the holy cities, …
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), …