Bengali Films Releasing This Durga Puja
From the big ticket Golondaaj to sci-fi thriller Bony, six films will be released on October 10.
Bengali Features
Bong Shots: An Exceptional Month of Bengali Cinema
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.
Sreelekha Mitra’s Moment In The Sun
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.
FC Discover: Unoloukik, An Anthology of Dark, Genre-Bending Shorts
The five episodes — strange, unpredictable, funny — both overlap in style and wildly differ from one another.
Revisiting Tapan Sinha’s Kabuliwala
Given the events of the past few weeks, it’s not unnatural to think of Kabuliwala — a simple, powerful father-daughter story, but also a story about dispelling xenophobia.
Aditya Vikram Sengupta On Once Upon A Time In Calcutta
Sengupta talks about his new film, working with Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s DP, and his mixed feelings about Kolkata
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?
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.
