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Shoma A Chatterji
The writer is a film scholar and critic
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STAGECRAFTSubscriber Only
November 19, 2010 21:34 IST
The Airtel Lifestage Kolkata Theatre Festival offered a healthy mix of entertaining and thought-provoking English plays to theatre aficionados.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010
TaraSubscriber Only
November 19, 2010 19:11 IST
Tara is the story of a modern Devdas who drowns his lost love not in alcohol but by painting his lady-love and leading an armed rebellion against the State and its corrupt sponsors.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010
Pioneering FILMMAKERSubscriber Only
November 19, 2010 18:28 IST
The Tapan Sinha Foundation recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of Indias first feature film to get international acclaim the 1934 release Seeta. Screen profiles its director Debaki Kumar Bose,who seemed to have found the secret of combining commercial success with critical acclaim.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010
Going PLACESSubscriber Only
November 12, 2010 19:31 IST
Bubbly,easy-going,friendly sans starry airs,Nandana Sen talks about her role in Autograph in which she is pitted against numero uno Prosenjit and the relatively new Indraneil Sengupta.
Fri, Nov 12, 2010
AutographSubscriber Only
October 29, 2010 13:06 IST
Autograph reveals the seamier side of the film industry. It highlights how the media makes it uglier than it really is,especially while constructing negative hypes around film stars.
Fri, Oct 29, 2010
Mon Chaye TomaayeSubscriber Only
October 22, 2010 18:38 IST
The end result of the creativity of three directors has produced a film with two ghost stories and one love story for the price of one.
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
Prem By ChanceSubscriber Only
October 22, 2010 18:33 IST
Prem By Chance is a lavishly- mounted film that offers wholesome family entertainment spiked up with generous doses of intelligent humour.
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
‘I am playing a superstar for the first timeSubscriber Only
October 22, 2010 18:24 IST
After playing unconventional roles in Rituparno Ghoshs Chokher Bali and Dosar,Buddhadeb Dasguptas Swapner Din and Goutam Ghoses Moner Manush,Prosenjit treads new ground with Srijit Mukherjees Autograph.
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
MahanagariSubscriber Only
October 15, 2010 21:42 IST
The cinematography captures the pastoral landscape of the village well but becomes mediocre when the story moves to the city.
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
Ogo Bodhu SundariSubscriber Only
October 15, 2010 21:29 IST
The directors desperate attempt to bring out a merger between Uttam Kumar,who acted in the 1981 film and Kishore Kumar,who sang the songs,has flopped miserably.
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
A woman’s taleSubscriber Only
October 01, 2010 18:25 IST
Nandikar,one of the oldest theatre groups of Bengal,recently staged Madhabi that explores the tragedy of a kings daughter from Mahabharat who is used as a pawn by the three men in her life
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
The Bengal brigade of winnersSubscriber Only
October 01, 2010 13:50 IST
This year Bengali cinema has had relatively less takers when compared to last years records.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Tomorrow is a new daySubscriber Only
October 01, 2010 13:38 IST
Young Srijit Mukherjee is making his directorial debut with Autograph,which features Prosenjit in his first ever role as a top star.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
A film city in West BengalSubscriber Only
September 24, 2010 21:10 IST
The state will open the gates of a glittering film city,Purple Movie Town,for the Bengali film industry as well as its neighbouring states in December.
Fri, Sep 24, 2010
Bilal wins National Award for non-fictionSubscriber Only
September 24, 2010 20:50 IST
The 88-minute long documentary is an India-Finland co-production that has also won accolades at 14 film festivals.
Fri, Sep 24, 2010A BIG LOSSSubscriber Only
September 17, 2010 16:50 IST
Noted character actor,director and theatre person Dilip Roy passed away after a long struggle with cancer in a Kolkata nursing home on September 2.
Fri, Sep 17, 2010
Transcending the borders of regional cinemaSubscriber Only
September 17, 2010 16:07 IST
South Indian director helms Bengali film.
Fri, Sep 17, 2010
GROUNDEDSubscriber Only
September 17, 2010 16:03 IST
Ribhu Dasgupta is currently shooting the last leg of his first directorial film Michael,across Kolkata. It has Naseeruddin Shah in the title role.
Fri, Sep 17, 2010The final CutSubscriber Only
September 17, 2010 12:51 IST
Dulal Dutta,who edited all the films of Satyajit Ray from Pather Panchali to Agantuk,rarely made headlines. He let his work speak for him.
Fri, Sep 17, 2010
Soumitra Chatterjee plays a magicianSubscriber Only
September 10, 2010 20:48 IST
Soumitra Chatterjee plays the central role of Kuhok,a magician,in the film.
Fri, Sep 10, 2010
AarohanSubscriber Only
September 10, 2010 20:41 IST
The drama of life reduces the arrogant,self-indulgent and stubborn Suryashekhar to a broken-hearted,defeated soul who returns to Kolkata with his wife and Kasturi.
Fri, Sep 10, 2010
Antim Shwash SundorSubscriber Only
September 03, 2010 18:20 IST
It is Subrat Dutta as Prem who holds this bad film together and persuades the audience not to walk out.
Fri, Sep 03, 2010
The NEW SLEUTHSubscriber Only
September 03, 2010 17:58 IST
TV actor Abir Chatterjee is making waves with his second film Bomkesh Bakshi,in which he has portrayed the character of the sharp-witted,well-informed,middle-class legendary Bengali detective.
Fri, Sep 03, 2010
Bomkesh BakshiSubscriber Only
August 27, 2010 18:33 IST
Anjan Dutts Bomkesh Bakshi based on the story Adim Ripu (Basic Instinct) arrives like a ray of sunshine in a dark bereft-of- suspense sky of Bengali cinema.
Fri, Aug 27, 2010Staying aliveSubscriber Only
August 20, 2010 12:02 IST
He was a titanic actor and a colossal star. Uttam Kumar,the Bengali actor who made a worldwide name passed away 30 years ago on July 24. Screen rewinds to the colossus whose versatile gifts even included composing music and teaching singers.
Fri, Aug 20, 2010Journalism of Courage
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