Book Versus Film: Ray
Some of Satyajit Ray’s short stories make you want to reach out for that word, “unfilmable”, but then, what’s filmable anyway?
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Chandan Roy Sanyal Remembers Master Filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Days before the shoot, he told me, “Chandan, this film is resting on your shoulders. If you fail, I fail.”
Verbose, Tantric, and Challenging: The Films of Ashish Avikunthak
In the wake of a Mubi retrospective of his works, and his new film, that played in Rotterdam film festival, a chat with the experimental filmmaker
Talking Head is an Absorbing Portrait of actor Dhritiman Chaterji
Spandan Banerjee’s film is playing at the New York Indian film festival, and will be available for streaming on Moviesaints from June 4-13.
Rabindra Sangeet in Films: 10 Songs
The Tagore songbook is a gift that keeps giving. Naturally, the films have turned to it time and again
Satyajit Ray's Top 10 Films
To celebrate the filmmaker’s centenary, here are his Top 10 films. As always, these lists are subjective.
What To Watch: Nagarkirtan, A Moving Love Story
Nagarkirtan quietly insists that we make our ideas of sexuality and love more expansive
How the Bengali Film Industry Is Playing A Role In The West Bengal Elections
From an anti-fascist music video to the celebrity circus in the run up to the elections, to a group of anonymous filmmakers behind a people’s driven campaign: a lowdown on the Bengali film fraternity’s involvement in the ongoing elections.
Before WB Elections, Bengali Artistes Drop Powerful, Anti-Hate Video
Featuring such actors as Parambrata Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya and Riddhi Sen, the song is a much needed pushback from the community of artistes in Bengal, which perhaps faces its most important election in recent history
Berlinale Talents participant Tathagata Ghosh on his short 'Miss Man'
113 women, 84 men and 8 who preferred to not state their gender — 205 film professionals in all, from 65 countries — have been chosen for Berlinale Talents. An interview with Tathagata Ghosh from Kolkata, one of the nine Indian talents selected for the programme.
The Indie Triumph of Rest in Prem
The term ‘indie’ gets tossed around too loosely these days, but the new Bengali web series might actually be deserving of the tag.
