Kolkata: Actor Rahul Bose today hailed the resurgence in Tollywood, crediting young filmmakers for giving Bengali cinema a 'new birth'. "I call it middle of the road cinema. The (new Bengali) films are not art house nor commercial. They are giving box office revenues but are content driven, which is attracting the masses," Bose, in town to inaugurate a multiplex in neighbouring Howrah, said. "In between there was a slump...
01:01 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Yahoo! India and Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) announced a partnership to deliver premium digital content in Bengali to the Indian Internet audience. The co-branded property bengali.yahoo.com will leverage the combined editorial strengths of ABP and Yahoo! India, a company statement said. Bengali content is the latest in language offerings from Yahoo! in India after Hindi, Tamil and Marathi. It offers fresh news ranging from politics, sports, entertainment from...
12:15 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Bengali cinema has come of age but a few more steps towards something new would not hurt. While on one hand they regularly dish out the commercial fare, they also pull out an occasional gem from the everyday and the common place. However, when it comes to relationships " as experimental and bold Bengali movies have tried to be " they are still a tad bit stereotypical and...
01:33 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Kolkata: Ties between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress hit another rough patch on Sunday after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to rename the historic Indira Bhawan after a revolutionary Bengali poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam. Another key regional player, the CPI(M), did not remain far behind and jumped into the scene without much delay. Indira Bhawan is located in the Salt Lake area near Kolkata. Mamata Banerjee, on...
08:23 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Kolkata: A string of art and experimental movies were commercial success as content-driven and thought-provoking films took centrestage in Bengali cinema this year. The Bengali film industry remained in the limelight the entire year as the flops went overlooked because of active patronage from the new state government. Young director Srijit Mukherji got rave reviews and set the box-office on fire with his second film '22nd Srabon', which means the...
12:20 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: 'Kolaveri' has just won the YouTube Gold award, which is presented to viral videos from across the world. Here is a 'national intregration map' of the hit song, featuring various versions of the song sung by artists in different states of India. Following the footsteps of Bollywood actors Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt, Dhanush has lent his voice to this catchy number. Interestingly, he has...
06:34 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Bengali actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty is all set to reprise the role of Bengali sleuth Feluda, or Pradosh Chandra Mitra, scripted and made popular by legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray as 'Royal Bengal Rahashya', the latest in the film series, hits the screens on December 16. Ray's son Sandip has directed the film that also stars Bibhu Bhattacharya as Jatayu (Lalmohan Ganguly) and Saheb Bhattacharya as Topshe (Tapesh Ranjan Mitra)....
07:49 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Burdwan, West Bengal: Popular Bengali actor Swastika Mukherjee and three others, including the driver of their vehicle on way to Durgapur, were injured in a head-on collision with a truck on Durgapur Expressway near Saktigarh in Burdwan district. The other two injured were her make-up person and an officer of a leading industry house, police said. They were taken to a near-by hospital by the locals who had rushed to...
04:57 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Mumbai: Three-time national award winning actor Mithun Chakraborty says it is important for him to work in off-beat films because this keeps him grounded. "Such films (off-beat films) pull you down from stardom to the ground and makes you feel human, and that is what brings me to such films," Mithun, who plays the lead role in Bengali film 'Nobel Chor' Wednesday said at an event at the ongoing 13th...
06:26 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Kolkata: After starring in Malyalam blockbuster 'The Train' opposite superstar Mammootty, model-turned-actress Sheena Chohan is all set to act in filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta's next project based on Rabindranath Tagore's works. "I feel so humbled by the offer because of the combination of two factors its a work of Tagore and is being directed by no less a director than Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who is respected internationally for his works. Nothing could...
07:28 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: Srijit Mukherji calls his 'Baishey Shrabon' a dark and violent thriller. Dark it is, but so stunningly dark. The way Kolkata streets melt in with Goutam Ghosh's poetry and then washes away with the rains that are so common to the city - leaves a little bit of Kolkata in every heart watching the movie. In the very first shot, the camera follows a serial killer navigating the...
08:34 AM, Oct 01, 2011
"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." " thus spoke Charles Spencer Chaplin, the greatest entertainer of all times. He later added, "Humour is a gentle and benevolent custodian of mind which prevents us from being overwhelmed by the apparent seriousness of life." This is the single-most important reason why the films of Charlie Chaplin have been endearing to people " differed by...
11:01 AM, Sep 02, 2011
'Twelve persons, twelve sms-es and twelve months' reads the poster of new Bengali film Uro Chithi (director: Kamaleshwar Mukherjee). The film starts and ends with a year in between for protagonist Aniket, a corporate 'slogger'. No one actually counts if there are 12 sms-es in all but you can rely on the director for this. But definitely the 11 persons who come close to Aniket shape him and control him...
01:16 PM, Aug 24, 2011
Let me start with the story of a teenager some twenty years back. He loved and wanted to study literature. His academician parents were wiser " "There is no future in General stream that too Literature". The boy grew up believing that he probably didnt have the merit to pursue arts. Watching Nandita Roy and Shiboprasad Mukherjees debut film Ichchhe (meaning 'wish'), I was suddenly reminded of that boy whom...
03:59 PM, Aug 02, 2011
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