A brand new restoration of Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi is heading to Cannes. Sudeep Chatterjee ISC, who has supervised it, explains why it was necessary.
Advertising, 60s Calcutta, and a magazine interview that did the trick, former adman, actor, and writer of crime thrillers Barun Chanda on how he impressed Ray.
Mohammad Touqir Islam, the creator of the Bangladeshi web series, on shooting a show in the pandemic with a bunch of first timers, and the virtues of low-budget filmmaking.
In an excerpt from his book The Cinema of Tapan Sinha, Amitava Nag writes about Sinha’s training under the great Calcutta studios, joining Jean Renoir’s crew, and his chance encounter with Ray.
If an uninitiated viewer were thrown bang in the middle of the contemporary Bengali cineverse this month, it would have given him a fairly inaccurate picture of the state of affairs.
With a starring role in Once Upon A Time In Calcutta, which was in competition at the Venice Film Festival, the Bengali actress has tasted success at long last.