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A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
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Indian Cinema Retrospectives

New Theatres and B N Sircar

Shoma A Chatterji traces the life and vision of B N Sircar, founder of New Theatres, whose pioneering studio shaped Indian cinema through technical innovation, literary storytelling, and legendary filmmakers.

SUKHJIT SINGH MAKKAR on The ‘Guest Voices’ in Hindi Film Music
Aarti Mukherjee also had a lovely duet with Rafi sb in DO DIL ....Sara mora kajra chudhaya tuoone and then there was Chandrani Mukherjee again with Ra...
Rajan Narasimhan on The ‘Guest Voices’ in Hindi Film Music
An interesting study. The phenomenon of singers across languages rendering songs in Hindi for films isn't either new or recent as the Gen Z might have...
Antara on The ‘Guest Voices’ in Hindi Film Music
True that Manek Sir. There are several celebrated singers from Bengal who made very brief forays in Hindi film music, some of whom Prakash has describ...
Manek on The ‘Guest Voices’ in Hindi Film Music
Nice read. I sometimes wonder about PB Srinivas, and also Sandhya Mukherjee. Subir Sen. Hindi cinema would have been the richer, with more songs from ...
SOUMYADEEP CHAKRABARTI on Salil Sangeet: How Salil Chowdhury’s Bengali Songs Reimagined Genre, Social Awareness and Humanism
Respected Sir, I got to read the Naushad jis tribute to Salil Chowdhury while going through the Book Salil Chowdhury Rochona Somogroho published by D...