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Subha Das Mollick's Blog
In Tapan Sinha's rich and impressive oeuvre, there are four films that have doctors as central characters. Each of these films projects unique aspects of the medical profession. Subha Das Mollick...
The magic of Naal Part 2 is hidden in the mundane moments of everyday life. These moments are made magical by the power of camera and editing as much is conveyed through looks and glances as through the words articulated....
All That Breathes is not a political film, but it is set against the political backdrop of the time. Subha Das Mollick reviews the layered film that narrowly missed...
In Satyajit Ray: From Frame to Frame, Shoma Chatterji examines patterns emerging from Satyajit Ray’s body of work and groups his films under broad categories like hunger, masculinity, femininity....
From Calcutta Quartet to introspective works, Sen's films ruthlessly expose the middle class and challenge societal norms. Subha Das Mollick studies the visionary filmmaker who...
There is much food for thought for every reader of Rituparno Ghosh On/And Film. The editors have compiled Ghosh’s own writings, speeches and interviews. Subha Das Mollick reviews the book....
Subha Das Mollick reviews Lipika Ghosh’s book তথ্যচিত্র: ইতিহাস তথ্য ও বিশ্লেষণ or Documentary: History, Theory and Analysis,...
Satyajit Ray absorbed the local reality when he shot on location and much like a documentary filmmaker, allowed that reality to pour into his camera. Documentary filmmaker Subha Das Mollick explores...
The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray
By Shoma A Chatterji
A review by Subha Das Mollick...
Master teacher Father Gaston Roberge (May 27, 1935 to August 26, 2020), the founder of Chitrabani, gave a new dimension to film studies and analysis. Many an established filmmaker and film scholar in...
Satyajit Ray never made a film on any scientific theme. Yet, science philia or a love for science manifests in many of his films. But if one picks on the mention of science and technology in his body of work, one can trace...
Bimal Roy: The Man Who Spoke in Pictures offers interesting tit bits for the film lover as it offers insights to scholars of cinema. A Silhouette review....
Naal tells the story of a simple village boy who sees the world in his innocent childlike way. He is the reassertion of the fundamental, incorruptible core that makes us human....
Bengalis are known for their wanderlust. They blow up their year's savings on their sojourns to the hills and the seas, to forests and ruins, to places sacred and profane. But Satyen Das, a humble...
In the segregated South, music inspires two marching band directors to cross color lines and give their students the opportunity of a lifetime.
Marching Forward is...
Bird of Dusk, is a feature length documentary film on Rituparno Ghosh that does justice to the complexities in his life and art. Bird of Dusk, directed by Sangeeta Datta, has been...
Ever since the initiation of the studio era in the 1930s, the Indian film industry has consistently forwarded the cause of the national movement through films like Chandidas and Udayer Pathey...
Maati is a film about the nuances in historical narrative, about the personal merging with the political. But it also belongs to the emerging genre of Bengali cinema where the narrative straddles the two Bengals –...
2018 marks 200 years of the publication of the first science fiction novel, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. It is a fitting occasion to take a close look at the...
An Unfilmed Visual Script: Satyajit Ray’s Ravi Shankar is a very different and special book. It embeds within itself, a 32 page drawing book containing more than a 100 sketches by Satyajit Ray...
The Calcutta Film Society was registered in October 1947, with Satyajit Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, Manojendu Majumdar and Purnendu Narayan as the founding members. The society became an important and integral part of...
On reading Pather Panchali one cannot help feeling that Bibhuti Bhushan’s construction of Apu has given Ray an understanding of child psychology. Most importantly, Ray imbibed from Pather Panchali, the leit motif of his...
This essay briefly examines sporadic efforts of non fiction film making in India in the years before India attained independence in 1947....
Sometimes Tagore made improvements on the scenario and the dialogues. But he did not suggest radically alternative treatments to the films ...
