Tag Archives: Paoli Dam

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 –...

Pratim D. Gupta’s latest film Maacher Jhol twists and turns the everyday Bengali culinary ‘maacher jhol’ into a magic concoction aimed at pure entertainment. ‘Maacher Jhol’ here becomes the character that binds,...

“What if Devdas were a woman?” is the tagline of Rick Basu’s Devi . Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novel which has been filmed umpteen times over the last hundred years, the film tries a...

Raja Sen’s latest film Maya Mridanga which adapts from an original novel by noted writer Syed Mustafa Siraj, restores the history of an old folk performance art form that was very popular in some pockets of Bengal but is now...

In 1977 during a film shooting, a young woman of 34 died, death due to drowning. Mired in mystery, it was not known for sure whether it was a suicide, a murder or an accident. This tragic end to the life of a...