Soumitra Chatterjee, the film actor, was much more than Ray. His journey in Bengal’s aesthetic cinema, beyond Ray, was a significant aspect of his oeuvre that we must acknowledge as we celebrate his 88th birth anniversary.
Javed Akhtar, as we all know, wears many hats. He is an activist, poet, lyricist and a screenwriter who is
At a lavish party thrown on the evening of the premiere, invited celebrities whispered that this would be the biggest flop in the history of Bollywood. K. Asif, who left no stone unturned to see his film to completion and release, remained silent. The audience began to trickle in. Mughal-e-Azam remains one of the most-written-about films in history.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was born in September 1922 and the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) has organized a centenary tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee through the screening of eight of his wonderful films made over a career spanning four decades. The films chosen are – Abhimaan, Mili, Anuradha, Anand, Satyakaam, Anupama, Anari and Bemisaal.
Anirban Bhattacharya’s maiden theatrical release as director, Ballabhpurer Roopkatha has taken the entire Bengali audience and the Bengali film industry by surprise . In an interview, he opens up about his journey so far.
Since every act of the so-called ‘free speech’ has certain political underpinnings, either endorsement or admonishment for free speech on any given issue depends not on the merit of the speech in itself, but on other practical or political concerns.
my dossier has more commercial films than all the art films I did put together. I worked in Mahesh Bhatt’s Sir, Dharmesh Darshan’s Lootere, Karma with Dilip Kumar and Bonny Kapoor’s Rajkumar in which I did a double role. Today too, films like A Wednesday, Ishquiyan, and Dedh Ishqiya are the kind of films I just loved to dig my teeth into.
This humaneness spread across his characters where almost all the protagonists were not only ordinary men and women but also either failures in life or marginal people, side-tracked by the mainstream.
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