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Shoma A Chatterji
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Bidehir Khonje Rabindranath
May 27, 2011 16:33 IST
A movie can be powerful or it can just be a pretentious attempt - this one suffers from the director's inability to handle the format.
Fri, May 27, 2011
Ek Poloke Ektu DekhaSubscriber Only
May 27, 2011 16:16 IST
What a waste of footage,raw stock,finance and everything else!
Fri, May 27, 2011Mixing business with pleasureSubscriber Only
May 27, 2011 16:08 IST
Arjun Gourisaria,founder of Black Magic Motion Pictures and Moinak Biswas,a professor of film studies,talk about their joint directorial debut Sthaniya Sambaad (Spring In The Colony),which recently bagged the Best Film Award at the New York Indian Film Festival
Fri, May 27, 2011
Kashmakash (Hindi)/Naukadubi (Bengali)Subscriber Only
May 27, 2011 13:58 IST
The boat-wreck born on a night of thunder and storm of Tagores Noukadubi is a metaphor symbolising the tricks
Fri, May 27, 2011
Sen & sensibilitiesSubscriber Only
May 20, 2011 14:09 IST
Nouka Dubi and its Hindi dubbed version Kashmakash is the first film based on a Tagore novel to be produced under Subhash Ghais Mukta Arts banner. It is also the first feature film to star Raima and Riya,the famous Sen sisters,in diametrically different roles. Here the siblings talk about their work
Fri, May 20, 2011Chalo BollywoodSubscriber Only
May 13, 2011 15:40 IST
Prosenjits career has taken a new turn since his last three releases - Moner Manush,Autograph and Chalo Paltai. He is even back in a Hindi film after 20 years.
Fri, May 13, 2011
Vorer Alo
May 13, 2011 08:50 IST
Vorer Alo starts as a message-based entertainment film,but gets convulted and long-winded.
Fri, May 13, 2011A theatrical autobiographySubscriber Only
May 06, 2011 17:59 IST
A self-reflexive commentary,presented on stage by one of the greatest Indian actors,finds expression in an autobiographical stage performance with Tritiyo Onko Otoeb.
Fri, May 06, 2011Vorer Alo (Bangla)Subscriber Only
May 06, 2011 11:04 IST
The credit of releasing a Bengali commercial film simultaneously in some big centres across the country such as Delhi,Mumbai..
Fri, May 06, 2011
Dreams fulfilledSubscriber Only
May 06, 2011 10:58 IST
Director Buddhadeb Dasgupta gets nostalgic about his award-winning film Janala and talks about his first Hindi feature film Woh after Bagh Bahadur that released in 1989.
Fri, May 06, 2011
Jeeban Rang BerangSubscriber Only
April 29, 2011 19:17 IST
An example of this inspired imitation is Sanghamitra Choudhuris Jeeban Rang Berang.
Fri, Apr 29, 2011
The bard of Indian CinemaSubscriber Only
April 29, 2011 15:35 IST
Rabindranath Tagores works have transcended time and space and proved to be interesting subjects for Hindi and Bangla films. Screen takes a look at how the litterateur has influenced filmmakers over the years and the various movies that have featured his songs and poems.
Fri, Apr 29, 2011
Bazikar
April 22, 2011 18:03 IST
It was a pleasant surprise therefore,to find a story of Prafulla Roy forming the inspiration of Bazikar directed by Prodyot Bhattacharjee.
Fri, Apr 22, 2011
Memories In March
April 15, 2011 20:43 IST
Behind a tragic tale of loss and grief,Memories in March puts together another layer of what memories consist of and who has the right to these memories.
Fri, Apr 15, 2011
Purna Brahmo Shree Shree Harichand Thakur
April 15, 2011 20:36 IST
The film shows how lives of spiritual leaders and social reformers carry all the ingredients for a commercial film.
Fri, Apr 15, 2011
El AranyaSubscriber Only
April 08, 2011 14:31 IST
The forest mafia encroaching into illegal tree-felling in the North of Bengal could have been a wonderful film.
Fri, Apr 08, 2011
Getting NOSTALGICSubscriber Only
April 01, 2011 20:02 IST
A musical evening in memory of Salil Choudhury and Sudhin Dasgupta by Amit Kumar Fan Club.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Street Light
April 01, 2011 18:31 IST
Street Light has such a grinding pace and such badly-done song sequences that even a good musical score fails to spill over into the dark and depressing mood of the film.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Ekdin Theek
March 25, 2011 19:40 IST
Dhritiman Chatterjee as his father and Soma Dey as the mother are the two saving- graces of the film.
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
FAMILY PoliticsSubscriber Only
March 25, 2011 19:35 IST
Vijay Tendulkars Kanyadaan has been translated in Bengali.
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
Handcuff
March 25, 2011 19:34 IST
With multiple twists and turns,Handcuff,which is interrupted by too many songs,survives on acting.
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
Chalo Paltai
March 18, 2011 17:24 IST
Prosenjits performance is as schizophrenic as the film demands and he fits in beautifully- natural and spontaneous in the first half and as theatrical as he can be in the second.
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
Punoruthhan
March 18, 2011 17:16 IST
The film aims to drive home the unscrupulous ways of Marwari businessmen vis-à-vis the honesty and integrity of a Bengali.
Fri, Jun 26, 2020
80 years of New TheatreSubscriber Only
March 11, 2011 13:32 IST
The New Theatres elephant trumpets after 55 years.
Fri, Mar 11, 2011
AbhisandhiSubscriber Only
March 11, 2011 13:25 IST
Notwithstanding the heavily borrowed script,Abhisandhi had many cinematic possibilities as a psychological thriller. But Chatterjee fails to carry the responsibility of a complex film.
Fri, Mar 11, 2011Journalism of Courage
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