Gora Piggybacks on the Glorious, Messy Casualness of Ritwick Chakraborty
The Hoichoi series expects to get away with its shoddiness by having the actor in a role that needs him…
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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?
5 months ago
Mandaar, on Hoichoi, is a Visceral Epic that 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…
6 months ago
Tokhon Kuasa Chilo is a Regressive, Confused Film Pretending to be Anti-Fascist
The film, set in present day pre election Bengal, stars Saswata Chatterjee and Soumitra Chatterjee.
6 months ago
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,…
8 months ago
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
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
2 years ago
Borunbabur Bondhu Movie Review: Anik Datta’s Film, Starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Is Surprisingly Political
The President of India decides to pay his old friend a visit, on the day of his birthday: that’s the…
2 years ago
Why Ritwick Chakraborty Is Never Caught ‘Acting’
Bengali cinema’s busiest and brightest actor, on location.
3 years ago