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Indian Cinema Retrospectives

Dharmendra-Jaya Bhaduri in 'Dagdar Baboo' Nabendu Ghosh film based on Maila Anchal

Nabendu Ghosh’s adaptation of Phaniswar Nath Renu’s ‘Maila Anchal’ promised to be a remarkable film. It starred Dharmendra and Jaya Bhaduri in the lead roles. And 75 percent of the shooting had been completed. Yet Dagdar Baboo remained unfinished…

Ratnottama Sengupta translates pages from Nabendu’s autobiography Eka Naukar Jatri (Journey of a Lonesome Boat) revealing the little-known saga of the film that never reached the screen, illustrated with exclusive, unseen photographs from her collection. A special Silhouette tribute on Dharmendra’s birth anniversary.

Alam Ara
Alam Ara – The First Ever Indian Talkie
The impact and epoch-making role of Alam Ara, the...
Saluting Indomitable Human Spirit: Tribute to Tapan Sinha
Saluting Indomitable Human Spirit: Tribute to Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha chose stories that reflected society...
The most successful adaptation of a Tagore story outside Bengal was of course, Hemen Gupta’s Kabuliwala, produced by Bimal Roy, starring the veteran actor Balraj Sahni.
From Kolkata to Dublin via Kabul: Tagore’s Internationalism And Cinema
At a symposium organised to mark the 150th birth year of Rabindranath Tagore in Dublin last month, the organising team – a small group of five academics with an interest...
Sare Chuattar
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen
Director: Nirmal Dey
Co-Existence Of Parallel Cinema With Popular Cinema In Bengal In The 50s And 60s
Ever since the emergence of regional cinema in India, Bengal and it’s films and film makers have played a dominant role in the shaping of cinematic history of the country....
Bharati Devi in Tapan Sinha's Nirjan Saikate(1963)
Bharati Devi — Documenting Memories
Bharati Devi had been, and...