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Tag Archives: Madhumati

Salil Chowdhury: The Unpredictable Genius

Salilda went on to improvise and create new forms, and refused to be predictable. The master music-maker was a restless perfectionist. And a rebel. Manek Premchand explores the life and works of the...

Music Makers

Salil Chowdhury – A Continuum of Art

When we explore the works of Salil da and attempt to understand why he was unparalleled among his contemporaries, layers of his unique and insightful musical dimensions begin to unfold. Kunal Desai looks...

Music Makers

Bimal Roy’s Madhumati – Untold Stories from Behind the Scenes

Bimal Roy's Madhumati (1958) is an Indian masterpiece starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjantimala. Rinki Roy Bhattachaya, his daughter has written this book as almost an offering to her...

Book Review

Kunal Desai on Salil Chowdhury – A Continuum of Art
Thank you so much for your kind words and appreciating this write up.
N S RAJAN on Salil Chowdhury – A Continuum of Art
An absorbing and well researched article on the immortal Salilda and his music. Many aspects of his songs have been brought out here that even avid lo...
Subha Das Mollick on The Aesthetics of Fractured Dislocation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema
Very significant essay on Ritwil Ghatak's aesthetics and he core ideas recurring in his body of work. For the first time somebody has referred to Ghat...
Indra Kumar on Khaniker Atithi and Zindagi Zindagi: Two Sides of One Coin
Please let me know which actress played the role of Shyama in the Bengali film Kshaniker Atithi. Was she Ajanta Kar or someone else? If Ajanta Kar ...
NS Rajan on Kanan Devi: ‘The First Singing Star’
Yes. She is a Legend. It is inconceivable now that someone with her background could achieve so much and in such a diverse manner in the 1930s and 40s...