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: 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
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
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
New Delhi: Its the 100th year of Indian cinema, and Delhi celebrated the undying spirit of the film industry in its own way. The PHD Chamber of Commerce in association with the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, organised a one day film festival which was attended by film personalities such as Sharmila Tagore, Shyam Benegal, Farooque Sheikh and Sanjay Suri. Delhi has...
08:09 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Kolkata: Nitish Roy, the renowned art director of Hindi films, is making a film on extra-terrestrials in Bengali. 'Mahakaash Kando' (Cosmic Happenings), which revolves around outer space and the creatures living in it, will be a visual extravaganza, Roy, who is making his third Bengali film in a year, told reporters. Satyajit Ray had first tried to make 'The Aliens', an Indo-American production under Columbia Pictures, but it failed to...
03:37 PM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: Once upon a time the most glamorous, eagerly-awaited and coveted award was Filmfare. It was the oldest, truly defined hi-glitz event that captured the seductive magic of star-power. This was a time way before Facebook and Twitter or the whos-sleeping-with-who brand of journalism invaded our lives. Stars were elusive and this lends them a mystique aura that is impossible to imitate. This of course, like most other things,...
08:06 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Mumbai: My address really was to blame. Pali Hill, Bandra, Mumbai in the sixties was idyllic, a glam but quiet Beverley Hills. Green, leafy with bungalows, the monstrous hi-rises hadnt yet come into the frame " it was a hilly suburb, far from the madding crowd and only minutes away from the sea. Union Park, the quaint colony that I resided in, had a fair share of movie folks. Baddie...
05:02 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Washington: Time magazine has included Raj Kapoor's 1951 classic 'Awaara' among 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923, the beginning of the prestigious US periodical. Rethinking the movie masterpieces, Time critic Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as 'the great star-auteur of India's postcolonial golden age of movies - Cary Grant and Cecil B. DeMille in one handsome package.' "The '50s films...
07:09 PM, May 28, 2012
