Bikramjit gets you the best food from Kolkata, the city where he not only grew up but also got his passion of food from. ...
07:46 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Kolkata: Renowned Bengali Singer Biman Mukhopaddhyay passed away on Wednesday at a nursing home in North Kolkata. He was 81. He breathed his last Wednesday afternoon and was admitted to the nursing home March 2. He was suffering from age-related ailments. Born in 1930, Mukhopaddhyay recorded his songs first time at All India Radio in 1955. His formal and routine practice of classical Songs started under the late Satyen Ghosal....
05:45 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Kolkata: Actress Gita Dey, who came up with stellar performances in Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, died in a private hospital on Monday following prolonged illness, family sources said. Dey ,79, whose acting earned her plaudits from English actor and director Lawrence Olivier, is survived by her two sons and a daughter. Beginning as a child artiste at the age of six, Dey was associated with...
09:14 PM, Jan 17, 2011
Kolkata: Legendary Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra died at her residence here Monday following a cardiac arrest, family sources said. She was 86. Mitra died around 1:30 pm while she was having lunch. Born in 1924, Suchitra Mitra had for six decades kept music lovers enthralled with her mellifluous rendition of Tagore songs, and her records and CDs top the popularity ratings even today. Daughter of litterateur Saurindra Mohan Mukherjee,...
03:01 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Panaji: Bengali film Nauka Doobi is directed by eight time national award winner, Rituparno Ghosh. The premiere was attended by Subhash Ghai (His banner Mukta Arts has produced the film) and one of the actresses in the film, Riya Sen. The movie stars Riya Sen, Raima Sen and Prosenjit Chatterjee. Noted lyricist Gulzar has translated Tagore's lyrics into Hindi for the film. Talking just before the premiere, Ghai told us...
12:15 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Kolkata: Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has said she is looking forward to working again with national award winning director Rituparno Ghosh. "I loved working with Rituda. It was a wonderful experience. I loved being Binodini in his Chokher Bali. Even working with him in Raincoat was a brilliant experience. I am looking forward to experiencing it again. So far my schedules have not permitted," Aishwarya told reporters while addressing a...
11:33 PM, Nov 15, 2010
In this episode of 'Secret Kitchen' Bikramjit Ray savours the taste of Bengali sweets. ...
11:02 AM, Oct 30, 2010
The biggest festival for the Bengalis, Durga Puja, begins today. ...
10:15 AM, Oct 13, 2010
Strangely, all I remember of the cinematic adaptation of Koni, which I saw at least a couple of decades back, is the battle cry of swimming coach Kshitish Sinha egging on a tired protégé – “fight Koni, fight!” And yet, this is the defining peg of the story of an impoverished girl’s singular battle against odds to fulfill a dream. Kanakchampa Pal, a tomboy who jostles with boys of her...
05:51 PM, Sep 14, 2010
Actress Rituparna Sengupta has been invited to attend the Montreal World Film Festival in Canada, where her Bengali movie
Aarohan will be screened. Directed by Pinaki Chaudhry,
Aarohan, is based on a true story that develops in a house in Banaras called "Mukti Bhawan" - where people go to die with a belief that if they die in that house they will attain "Moksha". "Rituparna is very happy about her...
08:01 AM, Sep 04, 2010
As a film critic, it bogs me no end when I discover that a director (Animesh Roy) who perhaps began a film with hope in his heart and dreams in his eyes, loses interest in it and allows it to be shot, edited and screened on its own steam. What ‘steam’ is left when the acting cast is drawn at random from anywhere and everywhere with just two familiar faces...
05:43 PM, Aug 14, 2010
Sara Raat is produced and directed by Ranjitmul Kankaria. It is the celluloid adaptation of a novel of the same name by noted litterateur Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (1901-1976) who was himself a screenplay writer and director. Beginning with
Patal Puri (1935), Mukhopadhyay went on to direct 16 more feature films spread over a span of two decades. Published in 1959,
Sara Raat was a very popular novel and raised a lot...
05:01 PM, Aug 10, 2010
Quick on the heels of Jeet’s comeback project
Wanted, Ravi Kinnagi presents him with a completely new screen image in
Josh. Has Jeet been able to live up to this faith? Yes, yes and yes. As Indra, he invests life into the varied shades of the character that covers light romance, song-dance numbers, drama, melodrama and action. The story is practically coming out of our ears with slight permutations of...
03:02 PM, Aug 06, 2010
So we have seen all the revenge-action flicks we possibly could. But what can one do if scriptwriters and directors have run out of ideas and fall back on routine stuff churned out again and again and yet again? We hardly have much choice but to watch and extract some entertainment from the stuff that is handed out in somewhat different presentations.
Target, as the name suggests, is a drama...
02:40 PM, Aug 06, 2010
The story of
Musalmanir Galpo, unlike most Tagore creations, is very cinema-friendly, message-oriented and carries a strong woman-centric statement. It weaves itself around a young Brahmin girl called Kamala (Mumtaz Sorcar). As an orphan, this beautiful girl, talented in music is brought up by a kind uncle (Biplab Chatterjee) and an unkind aunt (Anamika Saha). Her life changes on her way to her husband’s home when a dreaded dacoit attacks...
01:18 PM, Jul 30, 2010
Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 2007 film, also called 'Ami Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala', has recently released in India ...
02:27 PM, Jul 26, 2010
The narrative is crowded with three slots without either logic or cohesion ...
03:00 PM, Jul 16, 2010
The actor once again proves that he is one of the best in the country ...
03:19 PM, Jul 06, 2010
A convoluted storyline ruin Shayan Mushi and Arpita Chatterjee's natural performance ...
12:58 PM, Jun 30, 2010
