Once Upon A Time In Calcutta Review: A Heartbreaking Fairytale
Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s third film imbues poetry even in the most desolate scenes
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Review: Aditya Vikram Sengupta's 'Once Upon A Time In Calcutta'
Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s third feature, that premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, is both his most ambitious and conventional film
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.
Binisutoy Review: A Film about Companionship that Plays like a Puzzle
Atanu Ghosh’s new film, starring Ritwick Chakraborty and Jaya Ahsan, is not easy to like, and is all the more rewarding for it
REKKA, On Hoichoi, Is An Infuriatingly Shoddy, Incoherent Mess
REKKA is not the first show of its kind, and it’s not going to be the last. This is standard Bengali fare, indistinguishable from one another…
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
Murder In The Hills, On Hoichoi, Is A Silly Murder Mystery
Anjan Dutt’s web series doesn’t deserve your time.
Ladies and Gentlemen is a Compelling #MeToo Story from Bangladesh
The show is a testimony to Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s understanding of his characters, his ability to extract good performances and his grasp over the film form.
Mohanagar, on Hoichoi, is from Start to Finish a Mosharraf Karim Show
But the rest of the police procedural, set in Bangladesh, is frustratingly inconsistent.
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.”
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.
