Shyam Benegal touched the wounds of a post-colonially confused and depressed moment of this civilization.
Sinha’s films sustain socio-political implications that cross man-made barriers of time, space, language, people and culture.
All we Imagine as Light has three female protagonists. But by no means is it a feminist film.
These days there is a brouhaha over OTT (over-the-top) platforms being the way forward. Many have, in fact, signed the death warrant for single-screen theatres
Bandyopadhyay’s Byomkesh Bakshi stories (written in Bengali) have been reinvented both by mainstream Bengali cinema as well as by Bollywood.
In dealing with the stories of Rabindranath Tagore, Tapan Sinha could successfully take Tagore to the common mass.