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Anuparna Roy’s win at Venice Film Festival and a question: Can a city that promises freedom ever deliver it for women?
September 18, 2025 12:26 pm
Even as women in urban India live more independent lives than their mothers ever imagined, they remain tethered to a gaze they may never fully escape
Depicting historical trauma requires sensitivity. Unfortunately, filmmakers like Vivek Agnihotri fail to recognise that
August 23, 2025 3:52 pm
The responsible way to talk about trauma requires one to adopt a constructive lens, not to rabble-rouse. Otherwise, the film ends up being nothing more than a dog whistle
Unpacking controversy over alleged demolition of Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home in Bangladesh
July 20, 2025 7:48 am
While it is unclear whether a house being demolished in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh once belonged to the Ray family, the recent controversy has deeper roots
Bengali film directors call for strike in solidarity with Rahool Mukherjee following technicians' body's boycott of young filmmaker
July 29, 2024 4:55 pm
In a Facebook post, prominent filmmakers said despite the Directors Guild allowing Rahool Mukherjee to helm the shooting of an untitled film, the first-day shoot could not take place as the technicians stayed away.
Theatres shut down, mounting losses: How Bengali film industry lost the battle during pandemic
September 10, 2021 10:05 am
The Bengali film industry is reeling from the pandemic. While streaming services emerged as saviours elsewhere, even that revolution seems to have largely passed by Tollywood.
Hiralal review: A middling biopic on Hiralal Sen, among pioneers of Indian cinema
March 07, 2021 11:07 pm
That there is little known about Hiralal Sen despite his decisive accomplishments makes Hiralal a course correction by default; a necessary historical intervention. But that is hardly enough.
Actor Debdutta Banerjee found dead at Kolkata home
December 12, 2020 8:45 am
According to the police, Debdutta was found lying on the floor of a bedroom in her second-floor apartment at the three-storey building. There were bloodstains on her nose but no other injuries.
Tollywood delivers only five-six hits a year
December 17, 2014 12:21 pm
The Rs 150 crore Bengali film industry which produces around a hundred movies annually reportedly gives only five-six hits.
IFFK to screen seven films in 'Indian Cinema Now' section
November 04, 2014 1:49 pm
As many as seven films of different regional languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil will be screened in the 'Indian Cinema Now' section of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), to be held in Thiruvananthapuram next month.
Bong Connection
November 22, 2013 6:08 am
Kolkata-based designer Rimi Nayaks collection is inspired by Bengali literature.
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