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Shoma A Chatterji's Blog
Raj Kapoor's portrayal of women in his films evolved from respectfully depicting Nargis to later adopting a more sexualized 'male gaze' approach after Nargis's departure, writes Shoma A Chatterji...
Jatugriha by Tapan Sinha is one of the films that handled the theme of schisms in marriage with aesthetic sensitivity, technical finesse and, most importantly, strong social relevance. Gulzar's...
Mrinal Sen's films evolved thematically, exploring societal and personal journeys, while maintaining a balance between storytelling, cinema as a medium, and his contemporary context. Shoma Chatterji recalls her long...
Dr. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an India-born media artist, researcher and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in Sound Studies and Artistic Research...
With his quirky dialogues, playful eyes and superb body language, Jagdeep won hearts in theatres. Shoma Chatterji pays tribute to the immortal Soorma Bhopali who never failed to raise a laugh....
A Unique Perspective on the 1982 Mill Strike In Bombay.
Vartak Nagar is about the coming-of-age of the four teenage boys within the midst of a terrible financial crisis around the textile...
Basu Chatterji's simple, straightforward narratives explored stories of ordinary characters placed in extraordinary circumstances they struggle to live through and overcome. A tribute....
Inspired by the Sarat Chandra classic, Pradipta Bhattacharya's Rajlokkhi O Srikanto looks back in retrospect at a character created in 1917, placed in a time-setting at around 1910 from a vantage point...
Tarikh shows how the social media can create an alternative world for a person who is able to shut out the mainstream world. A Silhouette Review by Shoma A Chatterji....
Kaushik Ganguly's mastery lies in seeking to understand and include the personal experiences of a transgender in Nagarkirtan, compelling you to think about the love story of Puti and Madhu long after the film is...
Ahaa Re offers a unique perspective on the subject of cooking as a catalytic agent, serving as a bond between countries and people. A Silhouette Review by Shoma A Chatterji....
"Vertigo is a classic example of portraying the woman as one who can easily be manipulated by men, as one who bears it all even at the cost of her identity." Shoma A Chatterji revisits the Hitchcock classic,...
Are all adulterous relationships about love, or are they about the physical desire? If the latter, then how and when does love enter into the relationship? Gaheen Hriday is a film that makes the audience think...
Filmmakers over the decades have been deeply inspired by Munshi Premchand's works. Shoma A Chatterji pays tribute to the greatest Hindi author on his birth anniversary, remembering the path-breaking films made on his...
Haami, the latest Bengali film from Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee portrays the upper-middleclass and urban Bengali world where children and parents are often at loggerheads due to lack of proper communication....
What really makes a man, a ‘man’? Filmmaker Haranath Chakraborty raises this question in an unusual gender-bender film Dharasnan, which explores the subject through the journey of Tamasa, a girl who is tricked...
A 1983 film made on a shoe-string budget of Rs.7 lakh, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron hobbled and stumbled its way to its finish and later went on to become a cult film. ...
There are two opposite dimensions that reside in every individual. These opposing forces are inherently balanced beyond our recognition. Bilu Rakkhosh is the story of a man in whom the negative side begins to...
A Nostalgic Journey on the Litterateur’s 141st birth anniversary
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s works, apart from a few others, have remained a hot favourite with Indian...
Pratim D. Gupta’s latest film Maacher Jhol twists and turns the everyday Bengali culinary ‘maacher jhol’ into a magic concoction aimed at pure entertainment. ‘Maacher Jhol’ here becomes the character that binds,...
Dhananjoy, the film is based on the infamous case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee who was hanged to death on August 14, 2004 on the charges of rape and murder of teenager Hetal Parekh. The film is based on trial by the media...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s latest film Tope, based on a brilliant story by Narayan Gangopadhyay, has all the ingredients of a typical Dasgupta film - surrealistic images, visual poetry as cinematic metaphors,...
Aparna Sen’s Sonata is about three, middle-aged women, two of who share the same, posh flat in Mumbai while the third one, the flighty journalist lives elsewhere but flits in and out of their flat and their lives...
Impressed by Utpal Dutt’s interpretation of Othello, the famous filmmaker Madhu Bose offered him the role of Indo-Anglian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. This was the beginning of a long career marked by a thick portfolio of films...
Bollywood films and films in general across the world have more often than not been lured by the temptation to depict the dark, amoral world that runs in parallel to the more sociable one. However in most of these...
“What if Devdas were a woman?” is the tagline of Rick Basu’s Devi . Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novel which has been filmed umpteen times over the last hundred years, the film tries a...
Father Gaston Roberge is a legend. A Canadian Jesuit, he travelled to India and settled in Kolkata in the early ‘60s and have been a resident ever since. In 1970 he setup Chitrabani as an extension service of St Xavier’s...
At the very end of the year, two different thrillers have hit the screens – Kahaani 2 in Hindi and Antarleen in Bengali. The films are different among themselves in terms of languages, budgets,...
Postmaster marks the directorial debut of Srijon Bardhan. Parts of the film are engrossing though at times the narrative is too loose to sustain interest. The film mentions that it is adapted and inspired from a...
Nil Battey Sannata is a well-knit, intelligent film with witty dialogues and excellently fleshed out characters. It is not the mother-daughter relationship that strikes after the film is over. It is an important...
Goutam Ghose’s Shankhachil won the National Award for the Best Bengali film of 2015. The film is a tribute to the courage and conviction of the human spirit that expresses and feels the oneness with people across the...
Raja Sen’s latest film Maya Mridanga which adapts from an original novel by noted writer Syed Mustafa Siraj, restores the history of an old folk performance art form that was very popular in some pockets of Bengal but is now...
Spotlight just won the Academy Award for Best Picture in February 2016. It not only beat out Alejandro Iñárritu's revenge period film, The Revenant, but audience favorites like Mad Max: Fury Road...
There have been a flurry of films on the popular Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi. Are these adaptations losing the essence of the sleuth or they are adding to the rich oeuvre? Noted film critic Shoma A...
Chauranga is a metaphor for the illusory city which might have any name and might exist in any part of India. It is to this unknown India that debutant director Bikas Ranjan Mishra takes his audience unfolding layers...
Satarupa Sanyal’s latest film Onyo Opala is an interesting film when it looks into homosexuality but fails overall as it tries to crunch too many issues within its narrative. A Silhouette review....
Atanu Sen’s recent film Abby Sen is about Time Travel to 1980s Kolkata. A film review....
Is obsession a psychological disorder? Or, is it a temporary infatuation with a given person or thing which fades either with time or with a new subject to be obsessed with. Shoma A Chatterji...
Honesty has been the hallmark of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's films which neither pretended to be of the arty-intellectual kind nor compromised to the demands of the box-office. A tribute based on a lengthy interview...
Oorvazi Irani’s debut feature The Path of Zarathustra is a pleasant surprise especially for those who are intrigued by the changes and the differences that are constantly taking place between the two...
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