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Coinciding with the Kolkata International Film Festival 2019, the National Museum in collaboration with Shivendra Singh Dungarpur of the Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) and author, film historian and archivist...

Ever since the emergence of regional cinema in India, Bengal and it’s films and film makers have played a dominant role in the shaping of cinematic history of the country. As such, cinema in Bengal, has taken many interesting twist and turns. Since the days of the “bioscope” in the 1890s, Bengali cinema has followed a rather zigzag pattern. This...