A black Thursday for Indian cinema - Kolkata filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, known for his sensitive and incisive cinema, died of heart failure at the age of 49. ...
11:40 PM, May 30, 2013
Mumbai: Director Anurag Basu is likely to act in his assistant Abhijeet Das's debut Bengali film. Basu, who has directed films like 'Murder', Gangster', 'Kites', 'Life In A Metro' and 'Barfi', played the role of a doctor in filmmaker Onir's movie 'I Am'. If all goes well, he might be in front of the camera once again. "I am working on a full length Bengali feature film. I am keen...
02:04 PM, May 30, 2013
Mithun said Tollugunje show-biz should now be presented to the film fraternity beyond Bengal's borders. ...
06:56 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Puja Bose said she was hopeful the next comedy-romance flick by Raja Chanda will also be a hit. ...
12:08 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Anindyo Chattopadhyay makes his acting debut in Anik Dutta's 'Aschorjo Prodip'. ...
04:19 PM, Jan 15, 2013
New Delhi: Once upon a time Kolkata boasted of the finest in quality cinema. From Ray, Ghatak and Sen to Tapan Sinha, Tarun Mazumdar, Ajoy Kar, Asit Sen and gang, it offered both artistic and commercial fare that entertained while it enriched, enlightened as it empowered in one fell swoop. However, with time, this went into fade-out zone and in its place, pathetic versions of Bollywood and Tamil masala zoomed...
07:10 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Mumbai: Not many people know that Dia Mirza is half-Bengali. The fact that Dia Mirza, who has been busy working on her first regional film Paanch Adhyay directed by Pratim D Gupta, wanted to dub her lines herself should not come as a surprise. After all, the actress is half-Bengali in real life. Despite not having a great command over Bangla, she wants to go ahead with the task. Says...
12:38 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Kolkata: Days before its release in the first week of March 'Macho Mustafa', stated to be the most expensive Bengali film till date, has been renamed as 'Macho Mastana' following prodding by the Censor Board. "As the Censor Board expressed reservations about the title, we sought feedback from community leaders and accordingly the name was changed less than a month before the film's release," director Reshmi Mitra told PTI. "We...
05:43 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: DearCinema completes five years this February. A journey full of ups and downs, yet immensely meaningful and fulfilling, driven by passion and conviction. Similar to the journey of the cause that it supports: the good Indian indie cinema. So here, DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse's mouth....
04:52 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kolkata: In a whodunit plot, inspired by Agatha Christie thrillers, popular Bengali film actor Tota Roy Choudhury has turned up in a new avatar unravelling the murder mystery of a bar girl. "From the role of a crook in Hitlist by Sandip Ray, to that of an upright ACP, bent on fixing the real culprit, Chhal will show me in a hitherto unseen role with both commercial and realistic shades,"...
12:54 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: In 'Kokkho-Poth' (The Sound of Old Rooms), shot over a span of 20 years, director Sandeep Ray delves deep into the cultural consciousness of Kolkata through the life of teacher-poet Sarthak Roychowdhury. The film is already making its presence felt in the festival circuit after screening at Busan and Dubai film festival recently to packed audiences. While there is lot of nostalgia as the country celebrates the 150th...
12:15 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Kolkata: National-award-winning filmmaker Aniruddha Roy Choudhury has turned his focus on Bengali diaspora in San Francisco in his third venture 'Aparajita Tumi' with Bengali superstar Prosenjit in the main lead. The film dwells on the lives of two NRI couples and the problems in their relationship, said Roy Choudhury, whose previous films 'Anuranan' (resonance) and 'Antaheen' (the endless wait) won national awards. Based on a story 'Dui nari Hatey Torobari'...
05:57 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Kolkata: After its critical acclaim at home and abroad at different film festivals, the world launch of the DVD of ace director Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' took place at a city book store. "I am very happy with the work of Debu (ace music composer Debojyoti Misra. The film was possible because of everybody involved including Debu," Sen said as Misra was present at the DVD launch programme at a...
01:14 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Directed by late Bangladeshi director Tareque Masud, 'Matir Moyna' is one of those films which though firmly rooted in the socio-political environment of a place can have tremendous appeal universally. The film demonstrates the power of a simple story set in a time of social and political upheaval that can resonate with a viewer sitting in any part of the world. But Matir Moyna is as much complex...
02:20 PM, Oct 07, 2011
French auteur Jean Luc Godard once quipped, "Cinema doesn't query the beauty of the woman, it only doubts her heart." Can we replace 'Cinema' with 'Society' here? Molly Haskell argued in her ground-breaking From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of women in the Movies (1974), "Film reflects the ideological and social construction of women who are either revered as the virgin or reviled (as the whore)." From time immemorial, the...
05:34 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Vimukthi Jayasundara is a Sri Lanka based filmmaker, whose new film 'Chatrak' (Mushroom) has been selected for several prestigious film festivals, including Cannes and ongoing Toronto International Film Festival. The film deals with the mental agony of a Dubai based builder, who has returned to Kolkata to take part in a building construction boom. He reunites with his girlfriend, and sets out for a long desired search for...
02:26 PM, Sep 15, 2011
