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Tag Archives: Bimal Roy
That Bird Called Happiness, a collection of legendary script and screenplay writer and author Nabendu Ghosh’s short stories, translated from Bengali into English, was launched by eminent filmmaker...
Directed by Ratnottama Sengupta, And They Made Classics goes behind-the-scenes through an interview with Nabendu Ghosh that was taken in 2005 where he talks about his association with Bimal Roy. The film...
Veteran film critic Shoma A Chatterji has more than 20 books to her credit in a career spanning more than 40 years. Famous for her tongue-in-cheek candid responses, Chatterji is a friend and well-wisher...
Nutan amazed us with every role she did – she lived the character, spontaneous, natural, unaffected. So you watch Kalyani and Sujata and Aarti Sohanlal (Anari) not Nutan. We pay a tribute to the legendary actress Nutan with...
As a tribute to the Queen of Bhaav Gayaki, I revisit some of my most favourite duets of Geeta Dutt that create a charming world of evergreen music. She put her heart and soul into each and every song she sang, What...
Some of the most enchanting, lilting, melodious, memorable songs are associated intrinsically with the gorgeous style icon Sadhana. A tribute to the renowned star.
Literature and cinema have had a close relationship for decades, perhaps since the very inception of the cinematic medium. Several films that have been path-breakers in cinema have drawn their story ideas...
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 in South Asia, working across universities and disciplines in Ireland – decided to screen Kabuliwala (Hemen Gupta/Bimal Roy, 1961) as part of the programme.
The symposium was inherently...
