Kolkata: Refusing to commit if he considered the present trend of Bengali film industry as a real turn-around, Ray's favourite actor, thespian Soumitra
Chatterjee today said but he believed in keeping himself busy in all the genres of flicks.
Averse to tag a label like turnaround or buyoancy to the current spate of releases, including upcoming 'Rupkatha Noy' and 'Kagozer Nouko' by directors of different genres, Soumitra said, "Yes I am involved with the projects of a whole
lot of directors."...
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11:13 AM, May 05, 2013
Delhi will witness a retrospective on Satyajit Ray at the film festival which will also showcase an eclectic mix of old classics, and contemporary films such as Gangs Of Wasseypur 1 and 2 and the much awaited 'Bombay Talkies'. ...
05:43 PM, May 03, 2013
Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921. He is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his time. ...
06:52 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: May 3 is an important day for Indian cinema. It is the day when the country got a new religion to follow, it is the day when Indians got introduced to the magic of films. Hundred years back, Dadasaheb Phalke had released his first feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' on this fateful day and paved the way for an industry which now is one the biggest film industries in...
06:03 PM, May 02, 2013
Swapan Mullick, film critic and former director of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on on Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary. Q. Which movie do you think is his worst movie? Asked by: Kamya A. Ray never fell below the standard he had set for himself. But there was a point towards the end when ill-health took a toll and he couldn't...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: A great celluloid story needs a brilliant storyteller, and the storyteller needs outstanding actors to bring the characters to life. Satyajit Ray, the man who made the values of Indian films recognisable to the world, also had a muse in Soumitra Chatterjee. Chatterjee, in return, tried his best to fulfil Ray's wishes on screen. Both shared a special rapport which spread over the canvas of 13 films and...
02:11 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray was today honoured on his 92nd birthday by popular search engine Google by presenting a doodle showing a scene from his iconic movie 'Pather Panchali'. The doodle shows a famous scene from the movie where Apu, the protagonist, runs along with his sister Durga across the Kash-reed fields to watch a train go by. 'Pather Panchali' was Ray's first film which based on the...
10:50 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: In the doodle on the Google home page honouring the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray on his 92nd birth anniversary, the characters Durga and Apu are seen running through the fields to catch a glimpse of a train. This is a famous scene from Ray's directorial debut Pather Panchali (1955). May 2 marks the 91st birth anniversary of legendary auteur Satyajit Ray, considered one of the world's best. Many...
09:15 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Director Sudhir Mishra, whose films 'Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi', 'Dharavi' and 'Chameli' saw women playing strong characters, feels actresses today are not chosen on the basis of their talent. Mishra's said actresses these days are just used for "glam quotient and sizzling item numbers". "I really miss those days when directors like Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray and Vijay Anand used to select actresses on the basis of their talent....
11:15 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A six-day-long film festival, marking the 100 years of Indian cinema, kick started here with the screening of silent movie 'Throw The Dice' accompanied by Ustad Nishat Khan's live musical orchestra. The festival and an exhibition on legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray were inaugurated by I&B minister Manish Tewari. "The challenge was how do you commemorate 100 years of magical experience. As we look for the next 100 years...
04:03 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Indian cinema had always enjoyed linkages with literature, says Abhishek Kapoor. ...
11:20 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The results of the poll have arrived and many myths are broken while some results are on the expected line. ...
05:53 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Soumitra's association with Satyajit Ray goes back to 1959 when he debuted with Ray's 'Apur Sansar'. ...
03:23 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Famously known as Satyajit Ray's photographer, lensman Nemai Ghosh, has worked in close association with him for over 25 years capturing the master filmmaker in his myriad moods. ...
03:34 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Bengali actor Haradhan Bandopadhyay, a veteran of theatre, films and television serials, passed away in Kolkata on Saturday. ...
03:26 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Kaushik Ganguly, who directed movies like 'Arekti Premer Golpo' and 'Laptop', is making a film on the life of Subir Banerjee, the child artist who played the role of Apu in Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic 'Pather Panchali'. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Kolkata: Culminating in an happy ending but only after some unexpected twists and turns, legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray's real-life love story, revealed now by his wife, was nothing short of a typical Bollywood drama. In her recently released autobiography 'Manik and I' the late director's wife Bijoya Ray recalls how the couple dated for eight long years, married secretly and then made a clever plan to convince the two families...
12:53 PM, Oct 25, 2012
