Gora Piggybacks on the Glorious Casualness of Ritwick Chakraborty
The Hoichoi series expects to get away with its shoddiness by having the actor in a role that needs him to freestyle for the most part
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All Eyes On Anirban Bhattacharya
The 35 year old is an actor, thinker, and now a director. Is he also Bengali cinema’s new hope?
Mandaar, on Hoichoi, Intrigues and Entertains in Equal Measure
Actor Anirban Bhattacharya’s directorial debut has all the formulaic ingredients typical of an Indian web series: violence, sex, revenge, explicit language – except, it all makes sense here.
Tokhon Kuasa Chilo is a Regressive Film Pretending to be Anti-Fascist
The film, set in present day pre election Bengal, stars Saswata Chatterjee and Soumitra Chatterjee.
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.
Tangra Blues Review: A ‘Well-Made’ Film Without A Soul
Supriyo Sen’s film, starring Parambrata Chatterjee, plays like an uneasy alliance between two different schools of filmmaking
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.
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.
The Best Bengali Film Performances of 2020
From Soumitra Chatterjee in Borunbabur Bondhu to Swastika Mukherjee in Tasher Ghawr, a list of the year’s best performances from Bengali films (and a web series)
When Soumitra Chatterjee Ruled The Stage
Film and theatre director Suman Mukhopadhyay on working with the legendary actor in Raja Lear, and how Chatterjee brought quality and respectability to the commercial theatre of Calcutta in the 70s and 80s as a playwright
Borunbabur Bondhu Movie Review
The President of India decides to pay his old friend a visit, on the day of his birthday: that’s the central conceit of Anik Datta’s new film.
Why Ritwick Chakraborty Is Never Caught ‘Acting’
Bengali cinema’s busiest and brightest actor, on location.
