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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 ...
to enjoy, ponder, wonder & relish!
Silhouette Magazine is a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this goal.
Excerpted with permission from Shailendra — A Love Lyric in Print: A Daughter Remembers by Amla Shailendra Mazumdar, published by Antara Infomedia Pvt Ltd in...
Legendary actor Sharmila Tagore recalled her experiences of working with filmmaker Tapan Sinha at a discussion with author and Silhouette editor Amitava Nag and editor...
ICC World Cup 2023 fever is running high! Cricket is back in the headlines. Over the decades, Bollywood has time and again picked stories that revolve around our most loved sport and its heroes. Capturing the passion...
The year 2023 is shaping up to be great for Bollywood fans. Several much-anticipated sequels, spin-offs, and new films are slated to release this year. We take a sneak peek at some of the most...
Silhouette editor Amitava Nag talked about the different phases of Mrinal Sen's journey through cinema in a discussion with Dr Neha Tiwari and Dr Vijay Sharma at the 125th symposium of Srijan Samvad,...
Girish Kasaravalli explores Mrinal Sen's cinematic legacy. From Sen's compassionate introspection to his pioneering 'vérité' style, Kasaravalli delves into the enigmatic filmmaker's impact...
Following is an article written by Mrinal Sen nearly fifty years ago in 1975. The politics of our lives was different then, as was the polemics of his films. The essay looks at a brief history of Bengali cinema but...
Italo Spinelli is a reputed Italian critic and festival director with an abiding interest in the cinemas of India and other Asian countries. Spinelli speaks with Mrinal Sen about his...
Garden High Film Club, an initiative of the Garden High School, Kolkata encourages students to review acclaimed films. Silhouette presents two reel reviews by the students,...
Buoyed by the human chains formed in Rajsahi, Dhaka and Toronto to demand restoration of the decaying ancestral houses of the legendary filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Ritwik...
Kolkata Cocktail, a unique short poetry film explores the myriad hues of the City of Joy through three childhood friends who reunite to find their poetic vision and...
InTalkies Short Film Contest 2017 is now open for entries. Standout film in Jury Choice and Popular Choice categories will win prize money worth USD 1250....
Farooq Shiekh was an actor par excellence. He played complex characters with such conviction that touched a cord with the audience. Today on his birth anniversary (25th March), we recall the significant...
The impact and epoch-making role of Alam Ara, the first Indian talkie that catapulted Indian films from the silent era into the world of sound and music....
The hero of Sadanander Mela is undoubtedly its story – a tale of rudderless characters who bond together on the basis of simple, uncomplicated humanity....
One cannot but admire Hou Hsiao-hsien generosity to put himself on the firing line both as a fighter and a symbolic presence to lead the Taiwanese film industry out of its current stagnation....