Srijit Mukherji30 Sep 20110

Baishe Srabon, Parambrato Chattopadhyay, Abir Chatterjee, Gautam Ghosh, Prosenjit, Raima Sen, Srijit Mukherji, Anupam Roy

Director Srijit Mukherji shares his thoughts as Baishe Srabon hits the screens on Sep 30, 2011, the weekend before Durga Puja. After the hugely successful Autograph, expectations from this film are sky-high. It’s a film which he refuses to categorize as a thriller or for that matter, associate with any genre. Srijit also acknowledges the contribution of everyone involved in bringing his movie to the silver screen...Read more

Rahul Sengupta15 Aug 20111

Bhanu Bandyopadhyay

Rahul Sengupta talks about the all time great Bengali comedian Bhanu Bandyopadhyay (aka Bhanu Banerjee) carving a unique place in Bengali film industry (Tollywood) and theater with his great performances and comic timing. Bhanu Banerjee comedy is etched forever in the memories of Bengalis. ...Read more

Chandi Mukherjee, Aniruddha Dhar15 Aug 20111

Uttam Kumar

Uttam Kumar was a legendary Bengali actor, who still thrives in every Bengali heart. He is fondly called the Mahanayak or the "Great Hero" of Bengali cinema. What makes Uttam Kumar such an icon, who's remembered so vividly even after three decades passed by since his death?...Read more

Chandi Mukherjee26 Jun 20110

Anup Kumar, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Chinmoy Ray, Jahar Roy, Robi Ghosh, Utpal Dutta, Santosh Dutta, Tulsi Chakraborty

In the last century the decade of 60s was the decade of comedians and vamps in the Hindi cinema. The vamps were rare in Bengali cinema, but 60s was the decade of comedians also in the Bengali cinema. But this trend started changing in both the national and regional cinemas from the mid 70s. The roles of the vamps were shifted from the specialized actresses to the main female lead and the responsibility of comedy was taken care of by the male leads....Read more

Joy Mukherjee13 Jun 20110

Uttam Kumar

To start this article, it is needless to give any introduction because this person doesn’t need the same. Prior to this many essays have already been published focusing his acting talent. So let my try some thing different. Apart from being an actor, he was a producer, a film director, a music director and a versatile singer. It was mid fifties. Uttam Kumar was watching an English film in Metro Cinema in Kolkata. The name of the film was Random Harvest. The story was about a man who lost his memory in an accident. Uttam Kumar came out of the theater with a thoughtful mind. He called up director Ajoy Kar and told him the story....Read more

Chandi Mukherjee08 May 20110

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen is turning 85 on 14th May, 2008. In 2006 he has completed 50th year of his film career. In 1956 he made his first film ‘Raat Bhor’. Interestingly the film has a cast of Chhabi Biswas, Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee. In one of his interview of ‘Raat Bhor’ he said ‘should not have made it at all’....Read more

Mitul Mukherjee08 May 20112

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No doubt that, Uttam Kumar himself was a great onscreen lover, but has also used Rabindra Sangeet to wooing his beloved in many films. "Ami Patha Bhola Ek Pathik Esechhi"- a popular Tagore song - where a traveler wooing the nature, was used in Uttam- Supriya Devi starrer "Mon Niye", cleverly used in that sequence where they first meet....Read more

Chandi Mukherjee31 Mar 20111

Ritwik Ghatak

Ritwik Ghatak has made only few movies, but Kolkata is important in most of them. He was particularly obsessed with the partition and the plight of refugees who came from across the border in movies like Nagarik, Bari Teke Paliye, Meghe Dhaka Tara, etc....Read more

Chandi Mukherjee04 Jan 20111

Mrinal Sen

In many Mrinal Sen movies from Punascha to Mahaprithibi, Kolkata features prominently. He has shown Kolkata as a character, and as an inspiration. He has beautifully woven the people, value system, class difference and the roads of the city into his movies and coming of age for Kolkata, his El-Dorado....Read more

Chandi Mukherjee24 Nov 20103

Aparna Sen

Kolkata is present in many films of Aparna Sen from a real Chowringhee Lane to unreal Park Avenue. She has portrayed the landmarks and different dimensions of the city beautifully and captured many faces in this bustling metropolis...Read more